Sorry to ask such a dark question. Has anyone been to a funeral where photos were taken? If so, what happened, what was it like, were there any objections? Do you think photos taken at funerals would help the grief process or hinder it? Would you want to take photos at a loved one's funeral? Would you want photos taken at your funeral?
2006-10-01 10:56:47 · 5 answers · asked by ausbabe29_megan 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
People generally don't want to keep bad memories. They don't want to take photos that will remind them of the grief they felt. They don't want sad photos of people crying. When you think about it, people rarely take photos in hospitals either, or of people while they're very sick or injured or on other sad occations. People just don't like such sad memories.
Some people DO take photos on such occations, but they are few people and they usually take very few and discreet photos. In funerals I've been to a couple of people took a few pictues, mostly of the coffin either standing in the church or being carried out or of the people standing around the grave. I can't remember anyone ever going around taking photos of everything and everyone in a funeral like is usually done on happy occations.
I don't care whether people take photos at my own funeral. If they want to then that's fine by me. I haven't taken photos at a funeral myself. There's usually something very different on my mind on such occations.
2006-10-01 23:50:15 · answer #1 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We do . We do it in a discrete manner. They can be taken before or after and at times we have taken them during the viewing. Both sides of our family has never had any objections. I have a funeral album for my loved ones, there people in them I will never see again. And there are people who the last time I saw them was at a funeral. I see nothing wrong or disrespectful about it. We keep them private. I have been to 20-25 funerals and photos were taken at all of them.
2006-10-01 11:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by Star of Florida 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OH, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN. IF YOU WANT A PICTURE JUST ASK THE FAMILY YOU CAN ALWAYS DO THIS BEFORE OR AFTER THE FUNERAL OR VISITATION. JUST ABOUT ANYTHING GOES ANYMORE WITH FUNERALS. I'VE EVEN HAD PICTURES TAKEN YEARS AGO OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN THE CASKET.
2006-10-01 11:01:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ewwwwwww...no. I don't even understand why anyone would want to see the deceased. Closure? That IS NOT how I would want to remember someone....a dead, pasty, made-up, waxy corpse, it's disgusting! And furthermore if I ever saw somebody trying to photograph a loved one of mine they would not only suffer a broken arm, but a camera smashed to a thousand pieces! Very disrespectful!
2006-10-01 11:07:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
some people do take them,some don`t
2006-10-01 11:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by krusty_blue_spaz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋