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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
a newsworthy one at that
this thing however... meh not newsworthy
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I personally think it's a bit macabre, but it's not really my place to say how someone should or shouldn't grieve.
Death photography to be very common in the Victorian era.
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These photographs were a common aspect of American culture, a part of the mourning and memorialization process. Surviving families were proud of these images and hung them in their homes, sent copies to friends and relatives, wore them as lockets or carried them as pocket mirrors. Nineteenth-century Americans knew how to respond to these images. Today there is no culturally normative response to postmortem photographs.
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