this country, and today - in a culture that has destroyed the face of death as well as - Is already discussed piqued when death masks to be issued by the former RAF members. The presentation of the mortality, whether in the form of a public mortuary urreinsten, is frowned upon and even banned from a certain time of the exitus. In other European countries are dealt with death or otherwise, of course. In southern France the whole village participates in the open coffin with a farewell and in the condolence book. The sight of a dead part of life. No horror, natural fears - but at least more open approach to the final fact. And the all important "Goodbye and thank you" may give to, is allowed.
The invention of the primitive form of photography, the Daguerreotype in 1839, it allowed people who could afford expensive painting sessions to get yet visual memories of the recently deceased loved ones. This developed into a unique form of photography, post-mortem photography. For the time prior life was rarely photographed, unlike today, when we usually from a deceased witness picture of all life from day one has documented and possibly the decline within a disease process. And so the post-mortem Fotorafien formed less from a memory of the death of the deceased, but were as often the only memory of the living created, or with the life to him. This had the, were photographed looking remarkably well for our culture, stylistic effect that the deceased in the portrait again dressed as a survivor and positioned.
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An interesting article with a collection of these photographs can be found at Cogitz.com . As a text source, the Wikipedia entry " Post Mortem Photography " is named.
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