A Second Life on Second Life

In real life Alice Krueger has severe multiple sclerosis and is unable to walk without the use of crutches. She rarely leaves her home except for trips to see her doctor. In the virtual world of Second Life she leads a radically different existence. Here, she is the avatar Gentle Heron, the co-founder of the Heron Sanctuary - a self-described "support community" for others facing similar situations. In this clip she takes us on a eye-opening tour of her world.




This clip was was featured at the Health 2.0 conference on Web 2.0 technologies in healthcare on March 3-4 2008 in San Diego. For more information on Health 2.0, please visit Health 2.0.

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Segment Produced by Scribe Media.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Second
• Life
• Online
• Communities
• Healthcare
• Support
• Disabled
• Health
• 2.0

[thebobm13]

you guys are awesome the things you do for people with disabilities its just totally inspiring i have a bone diseas so most of my life i have ben breaking bones so to see people like you with all the more problems doing stuff like this for people with disabilities even tho you have them yourself truely amasing may i join your team

[LauraSeabrook]

That is a really good use of SL as a resource. :)

[francez123456789]

@WoWIcebane thats not her >_> troll thats someone shes showing around

[Crystalbloxcorp]

Second life: A game where you have no first life.

[DieRuggedManDie]

Thanks a lot for posting this :)

[NE0TIMELESS]

Secondlife is the rescue for humanity :) . Let us enjoy Secondlife because we loves it.

[WoWIcebane]

why does she play a bald white-gloved anorexic retarded idiot uncoordinated choad nigger monkey?

[freacls]

i have a friend in SL who plays a Navi in the Avatar sim on that she runs jumps fights hunts but in rl shes in a wheelchair and sometimes bedridden and her trips are to the hospital SL is fantastic place

[mientjeo4]

Its very scary stuff im in sl to but ive met a women that cant have childeren in rl so she gets pregnant in secondlife.....i dont know if this if great or wrong, but it makes here feel better so who am i to judge?

secondlife is great fore evryone aslong you keep it real..

[landth78]

This is SO cool

I hope an even MORE real version of something like Second Life comes out soon

It's creepily awesome!!!!

[lpsbarklouve]

wow

[dawoof]

@freacls all peoples that play SL like child porn