This work aims to understand the use of Facebook digital media during the experience of illness, hospitalization and death. It is a qualitative research, through of Virtual Ethnography and narrative analysis. This practice contributed to: facilitate communication with family and friends, to reduce loneliness and isolation, strengthen bonds of friendship, recognize the virtual social network as a space for the constitution of a network of support and communication, demystify the use of social networks as exclusive spaces for leisure and entertainment.