[Leica] perhaps i should diversify my income...

[scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)]

not offensive in the least.

the only people who get offended are those with little direct experience of
death.
socially, people see less of it these days.

2 years ago a close friend of mine and his father seriously considered
taking a picture of his mother soon after she died
as it was the first time in 3 years she looked free of cancer pain. and
they both were struck by it.

prior to streptomycin most children died before they reached 18,
and a postmortem photo was frequently the only photo poor parents would
have of them.

bharani


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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:02:58 -0400
From: Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>
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Here's another significant, life passage related photographic specialty,
practiced and popular at the turn of the century, but not popular now.
Tastes change. Hope no one is offended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography