Would you take a photograph of someone dead, in their open casket, at their funeral?
Some one just posted a picture of my uncle, who I never met, in his casket when he died in 1953. My reaction was…well, not quite horror but something mildly close to it. Revulsion?
Is it supposed to bring comfort of some kind? It has just the opposite affect on me. I went to the funeral of an 8 year old boy who had been killed when the semi his father was driving ran off the road and rolled. I just glanced at his poor, bloated, dead little face and I wanted to scream.
My husband’s family does open casket funerals. I can’t….if I can I just quietly go sit down without “viewing the deceased.” If I’m rather roped into it, out of respect, I’ll walk past but I won’t look. I can’t fathom taking a picture and sharing it.
How do you feel about open caskets and would it be normal to take a picture and pass it around?
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