Post Mortem Photography known as "Death Photos"

[Freedomisneverfree]

Back 100 years ago when death was common in younger family members, the family took photos with the deceased. Initially it seems shocking but it was an art form and back then death was not something you hid from. You had the body poised so that there would be a forever memory for the family.

 

[Thunk]

Honey? Would you like to open the photo album of death & take a look with me?

We could make a fun evening of it. You pop some corn & I'll pour the wine!

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

Honey? Would you like to open the photo album of death & take a look with me?

We could make a fun evening of it. You pop some corn & I'll pour the wine!

When I first looked at the photos it was a bit shocking but after a while, it looked like the (family) were not ready to say goodbye

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Back 100 years ago when death was common in younger family members, the family took photos with the deceased. Initially it seems shocking but it was an art form and back then death was not something you hid from. You had the body poised so that there would be a forever memory for the family.

Our local history program included this type of photography on our local walking history tour. I had never heard of it before then. The local photographer was known for his "life-like" photos. The picture of the couple with the teenage girl in the video was one from his studio. I recognized it immediately as my daughter was in the local program created during that walking tour in which she also appeared.

 

[Thunk]

it looked like the (family) were not ready to say goodbye

Yeah...that's very sad. But I would rather try to remember how that little girl lived rather than how she died. Cuz in the end...we all die...we all end up the same...but how we lived is very different!

Just look at president Trump!

 

[lg325]

Honey? Would you like to open the photo album of death & take a look with me?

We could make a fun evening of it. You pop some corn & I'll pour the wine!

A group of videos called Faces of Death was popular at dinner parties at one time not many years ago. It is disturbing.

 

[Moonglow]

Back 100 years ago when death was common in younger family members, the family took photos with the deceased. Initially it seems shocking but it was an art form and back then death was not something you hid from. You had the body poised so that there would be a forever memory for the family.

Are they nude?

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

A group of videos called Faces of Death was popular at dinner parties at one time not many years ago. It is disturbing.

I watched those and the most disturbing one was a monkey in the middle of the dinner table and they bashed his head in and ate his brains.

That haunted me!

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

Are they nude?

No. It think they said they dressed up the girls in frilly dresses.

 

[BackAgain]

I saw a post-accident photo of a young female driver who lost half her head (left side) when the post came through her skull. It was almost as ghoulish as a crime scene photo of a murder victim lost the top of his head to a gunshot blast and whose remains were blown into a pile of garbage bags.

Deaths happen. Murders happen. But I wouldn’t choose to view such images for an evening’s entertainment.

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

I saw a post-accident photo of a young female driver who lost half her head (left side) when the post came through her skull. It was almost as ghoulish as a crime scene photo of a murder victim lost the top of his head to a gunshot blast and whose remains were blown into a pile of garbage bags.

Deaths happen. Murders happen. But I wouldn’t choose to view such images for an evening’s entertainment.

Do you remember in Drivers Ed they would show horrific scenes of dead accident victims hanging out of their cars?

 

[BackAgain]

Do you remember in Drivers Ed they would show horrific scenes of dead accident victims hanging out of their cars?

Yep. It kind of worked for some of us.

I’m not a huge fan of getting squished.