Monday, July 14, 2014

Funerals - Posing the Dead as Living

I like the idea of remembering people as they were.  But this funeral posing also seems to feed into strong death-denying currents in our society.


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  1. Brian McMichael, M.D.July 15, 2014 at 6:14 AM

    Very Victorian...
    http://www.pinterest.com/explore/post-mortem-photography/?p=0

    There is also a contemporary movement afoot of photographing dead newborns, stillborn infants and even the products of conception from unviable miscarriages, e.g.,
    https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/
    http://www.stillbirthday.com/gestational-age-of-your-baby/

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