ABSTRACT The main goal of this paper is to answer the question whether virtual cemeteries are becoming a new element of the death and funeral ritual and because of that cause legal conflicts. The article is based on the literature review, social observation and analysis of the virtual cemeteries. Also, the formal dogmatic approach was used to analyze whether this phenomena can lead to legal conflicts. The analysis discover that virtual mourning practices help the users to cope with mourning and grief after the death of a loved one, they supplement the commemoration of the dead in the real world and assist with carrying out funeral rituals. It also discovered that the application of legal regulations concerning traditional graves to virtual ones does not always give satisfactory results, although it does show a direction in which the legislators should go if they want to regulate this issue.

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虚拟坟墓：一种新的虚拟社会现象的法律规制

摘要 本文的主要目的是回答虚拟墓地是否正在成为死亡和葬礼仪式的新元素并因此导致法律冲突的问题。本文基于对虚拟墓地的文献综述、社会观察和分析。此外，还采用形式教条的方法来分析这种现象是否会导致法律冲突。分析发现，虚拟哀悼实践帮助用户应对亲人去世后的哀悼和悲痛，它们补充了现实世界中对死者的纪念，并协助进行了丧葬仪式。它还发现，将有关传统坟墓的法律规定应用于虚拟坟墓并不总是能得到令人满意的结果，