Taking photos of deceased in casket: Fine or WTF

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  • Flab2Fab27
    Flab2Fab27 Posts: 461 Member
    WTF

    Is this in response to the OP in general or a response to taking photos of the deceased in the casket?

    In response to the question in the title.
  • cheekymcgee
    cheekymcgee Posts: 140
    It's not something I would do, but I wouldn't judge anyone for doing it. My nephew is in middle school and a poor little guy that he went to school with committed suicide. A cousin of his took a picture of him in his open casket and posted it on facebook....that's too much IMO. If you need to take the picture, do so for yourself, but it shouldn't be shared....particularly on a social networking site.
  • raindawg
    raindawg Posts: 348 Member
    I'd say fine, if that's what someone wants, but for me no. My mom passed away 16 years ago when I was 31. And I remember leaving the funural wishing I wouldn't have looked at her in the casket. Her spirit was gone, there wasn't anything there in her face, it wasn't her any more was what I left thinking. I can't imagine having a picture of that to refer to. I'd much rather see pictures of when she was full of life, when she was my mom.....wow I'm tearing up as I write this.
  • ball_FXDWG
    ball_FXDWG Posts: 44 Member
    It seems to be tradition in a lot of families and cultures. I find it a bit odd but it doesn't bother me.
  • tnpxx
    tnpxx Posts: 335 Member
    I think it's kind of creepy. I'd rather remember someone alive and happy not dead and stiff. My grandmother on the other hand has an obsession with dead people. She has an entire photo album that I've found of nothing but corpses in caskets. Some were people she knew but some were people she didn't even know.

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