Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn

Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by pavlov on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:44AM (#31702000)

This article led me to type “Thanatos Archive” into Google Image Search… And that wasn’t the best idea just before going to bed. As a parent these images of children are haunting and disturbing.

I also understand they were taken because the 19th century parents simply had no other photos by which to remember the lost children. I’m just not sure we should be looking at them.

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Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by secondcoming on Saturday June 11, 2022 @05:14AM (#31703086)

Death is a part of life. When I was young my parents would bring me to removals (where the body is put on display) so I would begin to understand death. Death is not something people should be protected from.

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Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by pixxel on Saturday June 11, 2022 @05:21AM (#31703124)

We’ve become so removed from it in the West. We make phone calls instead to employ the services of strangers to deal with it. It doesn’t seem right, or healthy. IDK.

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