I guess I am just looking for understanding here.
I have never taken a picture at a funeral.
Please, help me understand this if you have taken this kind of picture.
2006-09-28 02:28:36 · 15 answers · asked by Craptacular Wonderment 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
A last rememberance
2006-09-28 02:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 2⤋
I havent but recently went to a funeral and can understand the feeling of never seeing that person again...if I didnt have pictures of the person-I would want one-even in a casket,because you never want to lose the memory of that person
2006-09-28 02:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by cassiepiehoney 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was really creeped out when I saw some of these pictures in my husbands grandmothers belongings. I personally wouldn't do it. I remember being on E-Bay once and saw a photo album for sale with nothing but dead people in it EEEWWWWW!!!
But like most people who have already answered the question I think that people do it as a way to cope with losing the person. The picture of the person in the casket is the last opportunity to ever lay eyes on the person again and they want to capture the moment for reasons only known to them.
2006-10-01 01:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by HSK's mama 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People take photos for the same reason they have an open casket in the first place. To remember the person one last time. Wakes are for the living not the dead.
2006-09-28 02:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by sweet pea 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Having worked as a photographer for 20 years or so.
1. They do not have a photo of the deceased person during thier life.
2. Many times this is the time in life that the deceased person is dressed up.
3. rememberance.
4. It's mostly a eastern european thing. Photos are very expensive there and they could not afford it prior.
5. I usually set up the deceased up in a large chair in the funeral home with a newspaper on their lap to simulate the deceased falling asleep while reading. It's usually less tramatic for the family.
6. Some people are just photo happy and take pix of everything.
Hope it helps.
2006-09-28 02:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by fstopf4 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
In some cultures people do this. My Polish ex-husband's family always did this at funerals. My current husband recently took a video of the funeral of his grandmother and also her in her casket. We have never watched it though. Yes it is a remembrance.
2006-09-28 02:31:56 · answer #6 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen somebody take a photo at a funeral. I choose not to attend the viewings, so i never see the open casket.
2006-09-28 02:31:08 · answer #7 · answered by talz_talz 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Some people believe that we take pictures at every event in a persons life and why would we not take pictures of our loved ones last event.
2006-09-28 02:33:18 · answer #8 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We have never done these kind of pictures in our family.
I find it morbid.
Which picture you will choose to place in a nice frame and fix it in your living room.
The picture of the love person alive,or the picture of the love person in his casket ?
2006-09-28 23:55:43 · answer #9 · answered by d260383 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
it just for remebrance . when my grandpa and aunt died my family vedio taped every thing and took many pictures. we only watched once and the tapes are in a family box rusting away and for the picture it is lost to the age . i found it creepy to sit down and view tapes and pictures of a dead person. i don't want my eyesto see it twice becasue it cast a creepy feeling
2006-09-28 02:43:15 · answer #10 · answered by WEEDG 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think that practice is a little outdated. I know that back, back in the day, people would do that. They'd actually sit them up like they were still alive.
I don't know why but if people are doing this in 2006, that's pretty creepy.
2006-09-28 02:35:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋