Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
by jcims on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:52AM
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I went through a similar realization after having been in physical contact with a family member as they passed. It sort of demystified everything for me and gave me a much more practical perspective on what remains after they have gone.
I hope you're doing ok.
Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
by yellowapple on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:09AM
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Thanks, and likewise. I'm doing quite alright, considering. As much as I miss him, I'm more than anything relieved that he's no longer suffering.
And yeah, that demystification certainly helped. So did my folks and I (and Dad) sharing a rather macabre sense of humor. Nothing could've prepared me for rigor mortis setting in, though; few things are as weird as a human body being stiff as a log.
Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
by jcims on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:36PM
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That’s a great point that i hadn’t even considered until you said it. We would say stuff in the house that would get two laughs, the first one because it was funny and the second one because who in their right mind would joke about that.
My Dad passed two weeks ago today, and now, when seeing some of these photographs and reading this article, I get it. I might not personally need or want a photograph of my Dad's corpse in some pose (I'm quite content, to say the least, to have held his hand through his last breaths, and to have helped lift him onto the stretcher to be hauled off to the crematorium), but I can see why others might feel differently.