en varios ni se distingue quien es la persona fallecida, dicen que para que parecieran vivos os paraban con unos aparatos, y que para que se vieran los ojos abiertos les pintaban los parpados o se los quitaban.
my Grandmother was a midwife and she also dressed and prepared the dead. She had many of these remembrance photos. She was born in 1880 and died at the age of 100+ so she said many children would die of high fever with illness. There was also alot of children and adults dying during the influenza outbreak in the early 1918-20. The cost of a photographer was about 1 dollar but was expensive for all. The caskets were made to fit the person there were no prefab coffins like today.
In the last photo I wonder if anyone is deceased, although the woman in the middle is leaning heavily on the woman in front of her. Very well done collection of photos and I enjoyed the music. Very touching and sad.
Would the photo be taken at the house or was the corpse taken to the studio to pose? Beautiful pics but I can't imagine the smell of the body waiting around just to be photographed...
@wysiwyg43 Usually they would have the wake in their house, it's not like now when the dead are hauled off and kept at a funeral home. Usually the family would get together and put their money together to hire a camera man to take the pic at their house with love ones. People think this is creepy, but considering people didn't have cameras back then. This was the only time they could get the family together and get a pic with the loved one.
Either or. The photographer could come to your parlor, or you could take the deceased to the studio for a more controlled backdrop and lighting situation. Dead babies and small children were more likely to be transported to the studios because of the minimal logistics involved. It was a bit tougher to transport the dead when it was 280-pound Aunt Maggie.
they do this because back then pictures were expensive. and really the only time they could get a family picture is if someone died. im sure it was very hard for these parents or kids to take a picture with their dead child or sibling but they do it for the remembrance of them. of course now a days i doubt anyone could have the courage to do this. i know i wouldn't. i'd break down
Though this scares me, May god bless those who passed before ever experiencing life. I am truly grateful to have been born and raised in these times. God may you rest.
Photographs were so very expensive back then. People didn't have cameras to take a photo whenever they felt like it. Sometimes a postmortem photograph was the only shot the family would have of everyone together. There were special photographers who posed the deceased as if they were sleeping or they sometimes had frames to hold the deceased in a lifelike position. No antibiotics, medical doctors knew very little really, lots of children died of diarrhea or influenza.
Thrilling pictures and tough seems a strange practice, but is not exclusive of the victorian era and I can understand it; My mother took one pic of my dead brother; he was just 2 months old, died due a respiratory failure, and is the only image I have from him (he would be my oldest brother, died 7 years before I was born); thanks for sharing this pictures!
I wonder if it was so expensive to have a pictures taken, that they got the money together for the only chance of a family portrait with the whole family? If that was part of why it was done?
Once "riga" sets in it would be pretty easy to prop them up, also for most of these families these photos are the only ones ever taken of their loved ones. I believe the mortician in those days took photos of their work as a gift to the families but also as a promotion of their work. Kind of a "commercial" if you will. "Hey I did this. I can do this for your loved one as well"
Why would someone even WANT pictures of their dead child(ren)...especially ones with their EYES OPEN?!! I think it's just awful. The music and video was very well put together I have to say though.
Some people in the photos seemed to be alive, were they alive people posing with the ones that passed or were they all gone that seemed alive? Some of the baby pictures were beautiful especially one of a small baby that simply looked like it was taking a nap and it would soon wake up. Perhaps not in this world, but I have no doubt that it did wake up in Heaven.
thank you for posting videos like this one. I enjoy looking at stuff like this. In fact my family still takes pictures of our family members who have died after they are at the funeral home for viewing them.
I think it shows a healthy acceptance of death as a natural part of our lives. No judgement just love. But some of these are not Memento Mori at all.......a few are of living people.
Most people didn't have photos of their own family. Many of these families were not upper class and photos were not cheap. The tax alone was to much for some (for several years they put tax stamps on the reverse). The average family of eight , would lose two kids before five. It was a numbers game for many. My grandmother was one of nine, they only lost one to the flu and one to war. But five boys lived after seeing action in WWII. That was luck.
There existed no medicine back then, at least none that could remedy a disease. People died of smallpox, flu, lung inflammation etc back then, diseases and viruses which we today can cure has vastly increased the chance of survival, yet still many kids who get malign tumours die. A while ago, they posted a post mortem in our newspaper, and its sad to see the dead face, which looks far more gruesome when life has left the body. Death was real back then and not shunned like today.
Me fascina este tipo de fotos; he tomado fotos de algunos de mis familiar y amigos; es como cerrar una historia. Es un momento mágico. Espero que mis hijos, al menos uno de ellos haga lo mismo: cierre mi historia con una foto muy arreglada con una mortaja que está elegida hace mucho tiempo. Y no, no eres una enferma: en realidad la carita de susto de la nenita es tremenda, No habría obligado a uno de mis hijos a sostener un herman@ fallecido. Gracias. saludos.
You still see this a good bit in the south.I know the older people in my family still take pictures in the coffin.(grandparents,great Aunts etc.)When my grandmother died she had quiet a few pictures of deceased love ones.Also I noticed a trend in my family is that a lot of family photos were taken in graveyards. Maw Maw once told me it was because a lot of time you only saw the family at church decorations once a year.
@CassidyW84 I've noticed that in my family, we have very few, but my grands and parents have pics of my past relatives, im from south carolina and I always wondered why they took pics of the deceased.
@23raynsc My grandma hails from the south too.We were talking about this a while back and she explained that a long time ago people couldn't afford to get photos taken of their children,so when tragic events happened any money you could gather was used to get a picture taken of your little one.Sadly a death photo was sometimes the only photo you had of your child.It's sort of a tribute ,
even though they were only here for a short period of time you were letting the world know they existed.
Sensitively portrayed.Sadly today's modern trend towards squeamishness where anything relating to death has made 'memento mori' photography a thing of the past in the main.
very few don't look like memento mori. The pictures are hauntingley beautiful, and yes very, very sad. Some funeral homes do offer this, and often families will ask for pictures-- although not as artistically done.
this type of photography is very disturbing by todays social identity, yet very common practice in the Victorian era. IMO the most disturbing ones are the ones with their eyes open looking at you.........gives me chills
@ 1:00: That girl looks like she is really freaked out by this. They have obscured the boys face, so I suspect he wasn't looking very good @ that point. The thing people need to remember about these pictures. Photography was very new then, very expensive. No pictured of the deceased had probably been previoiusly taken. This was only chance they had to remember the dead.
@VictorLepanto I think that by the time photography was becoming more readily available [although as you said, still very expensive] people really didn't think it odd to have these sort of pictures taken...after all, the practice of making "death masks" had been around for years. But normal or not, yeah, I'd freak out too if I'd have been a kid posing with a corpse!
@ncdude367: Most people don't seem to be too bothered, even the other children. Death was part of life. Most funerals happened in the home, except for Catholic ones. Everyone would sit up w/ the dead. It is the particular image @ 1:00 which strking. If you look at it, the boy's eyes have been retouched. He must have begun to experience some significant decomposition.
@AXOhm: Do you think that maybe some of these people are NOT dead. In some pictures all the figures are standing. It was rather difficult to tell WHO was supposed to be dead. I think the author of this work might have thrown in some ordinary photos to confuse us.
@VictorLepanto In a textbook they had a couple of pictures like these where some are standing. They actually prop up the bodies on a stand to make them seem as if they are alive. It was the relatives' way of trying to remember their loved ones as they were alive I suppose.
@juannabanana: Your comment just made me think of something. People don't take pictures at funerals usually. Not today anyway. Just think about it. Birthday parties, graduations, weddings, etc.; it is snap, snap, snap every second. Not at a funeral.
@VictorLepanto No, not today at least not often... I'm sure there are a few who will take pictures at a funeral today, but it would be considered crass now (well depends on that family's view). I would not want to take a picture at a funeral, who wants to remember their loved one in death? Back then, we might have accepted it though.
@VictorLepanto I don't think so. I've seen most of these photos in a museum before. The ones standing were accomplished by a sort of rack that looks much like what people use to stand up dolls. It could even hold the head and arms in different positions. I have a post mortem photo of a great-great-great grandparent standing up.
It's a little frightening that in a lot of these photographs, if you weren't watching this video, you'd have no idea that the subjects had already passed when they were taken.
The pictures of the mothers are specially haunting. Most of them look so dead themselves. Their eyes so vacant and their faces so stony. It's heartbreaking.
@akissy It's because of the high infant mortality rate. Those poor folks didn't know about sanitation and germs hence cholera, diptheria, tetnus,tuberculosis,and other diseases that are out of existence today. Nonetheless,it is heartbreaking.....
@shaneac9 No,NO! It's many factors. It's not just personal hygiene it's that microbes and germs weren't known at that time. Cholera and tetnus et al are bacteria spread by contact with an infected person. Did people wash then? Sure but not to the degree as we do today and we learn from these poor folks as we have in other ares besides medicine...A shame nonetheless....
@ Yodasstuff, I found a picture of a little girl is sitting in a chair surrounded by dolls. When I first saw it I thought her eyes were open. But either way it made me uneasy.
This probably sounds stupid, but Im just wondering, why did they have these pictures taken? Ive never heard about it ever being a tradition in Denmark, though. Its very interesting I think.
At the end is say to R.I.P. but some of these people are standing up with eyes open, what is that all about? REST in peace! mean to lay down, relax, take a load off. Not get dressed up, get stood up, open your eyes to take a picture. Nevertheless a great tribute video to those that have done what we one day will have to do.
I believe many of these are regular "live family" photographs....I mean, even back then, would it not be totally creepy to have your arm around or vice versa, a dead person? Esp one who has been dead a few days? I doubt there is any way to pose a dead person to look like a live one, rigor would prevent this.
@AnywhereButHere09 ummm, not it wasn't creepy. It was the only picture many could afford in their lifetime, so why not do it? If you couldn't afford but ONE picture in your entire life, wouldn't want to have it even if the person was dead? Also, they were emblamed and preserved as much as they could, the funerals took longer than they take these days. Read a bit, your questions will be answered if you only care to read instead of making judgements. ^^
@akissy I totally agree....embalming was not perfected, and funerals took longer, hence more decay much sooner. I would bet most of the post mortem photos are not, and our forefathers stretched truths as much as our nearfathers in the labeling of thing....ie snake oil treatments?
Surprisingly we often find the opposite, they were using much stronger chemicals that were better at embalming back then, whereas today we dont use them due to their damaging effects on the environment
How can you tell that one of them is dead? In some pictures I really have no idea at all!! They're arranged standing, seated, in all kind of positions, with their head up straight and whatever, I couldn't tell the difference, but apparantly someone here is an expert on the subject?
@Lijge That's what I was wondering. In a lot of them the people have their eyes open, and they were posing. So I wonder if people left the persons eyes open if they died with them open, or did they pry them open to create a picture that appeared as if they were still living. Plus, they're ALL dead now, so how do we know for sure about ANY post-mortem pictures from the Victorian era.
@padreq12 That's because photography was a very expensive product on those days. And sometimes someone died without getting their picture taken while still alive. That's why they sometimes arranged the dead body in a way to look alive.
@padreq12 THIS IS SO TRUE SOMETIMES I DONT EVEN NO WHICH ONE IS THE PERSON THATS NOT ALIVE ,THIS HAPPENS MORE WITH THE PICTURES THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY IS TOGETHER..
I am proud to say that my great grandmother held on to her "death photos" of her children until her death in 2006. I am sad to report that no one would let me take pictures of the funeral or keep the pictures of her angel babies. I am not morbid, I have the pictures of my angel who was a stillborn. May you all be blessed and never know the heartache!
Children died all the time from diseases that we have vaccines for today and of course fever and infection. What is really a shame is the amount of parents not vaccinating their kids today, we are going to see these diseases come back.
Absolutely fascinating ,I think this style of photography is so important in remembering a member of the family ,who may not be around but will always be a member ,that can not be undone xxx
At 6:06 I am sure it is the woman in the middle who is dead; the one with her head resting on the other girl. At 2:12 I think both might be dead. 2:59 I think the little boy and maybe the father.
isn't it weird that these pictures were taking to help the parents and family members cope with the pain of losing somebody but at the same time gave them everlasting life. People will be seeing this for years to come!
They had stands by which they were propped up with wires that went into the sleeves and around the legs. This had to be an expensive procedure. After the picture was developed, a retoucher would even make the eyes open to make the person standing to appear more life-like.
in some ways in the Victorian era, there was a more prosaic attitude towards death. in a few "memento mori" photos, the person hadn't actually died yet but did not have long on this earth, so a photo was taken to remember them by. some living siblings were posed alongside their deceased brother/sister, which i find a bit disturbing as it may have been very upsetting for them.
AxxxSsxxxBlues Gracias, eres muy gentil al contestar, pero aún me queda la duda. Imagínate que hay un daguerotipo que dice textualmente "Fulanita ocho días después de morir". ¿Tal vez alguna forma de embalsamamiento? Taxidermia o algo parecido...Saludos
En muy pocas ocasiones puedo adivinar quién es el o la difunto (a). Me fascinan estas fotografías. Me pregunto lo mismo que alguno de tus seguidores¿Cómo hacían para fotografiar los muertos de pié?
@smileykisses420 ...The photographer would sometimes use chairs with wires or strings to hold them up under their clothing. Some eyes were left open as they recently passed, and some eyes were 'painted' on. As strange as these rituals sound, the mortality rate among children back then was incredibly high. And as heart-breaking as it was, disease & death came for most too early. The 'memento-mori' was part of the healing and memorialization process for the family.
@smileykisses420 Yes, these photos were usually a pkg. deal with the funeral parlor, A photographer would pose the kid's as if they were sleeping,( tastefully), as these were mostly, the only photo the family had of the child. Sadly, but true. This era did not have the disconnection we have with death, as the diseases and infections that took the lives of children 100 + yrs.ago has been eradicated with modern medicine.
en varios ni se distingue quien es la persona fallecida, dicen que para que parecieran vivos os paraban con unos aparatos, y que para que se vieran los ojos abiertos les pintaban los parpados o se los quitaban.
madaiang 1 week ago
eyes open is creepy
omeliahjune 2 weeks ago
What's the name of the music?
kashmirpage 3 weeks ago
@kashmirpage It tells you at the end of the video
planetrockford 2 weeks ago
What disturbs me mostly, is the fact that in some of these pictures, it's hard to tell the deceased apart from the living.
Like 6:05? Really?...
R.I.P
simaess 3 weeks ago 2
You could tell that the little girl at 1:02 didn't want to be there!
kashmirpage 3 weeks ago
Lindo vídeo, muito sensivel. Me lembrei com emoção de meu filhinho falecido aos 9 meses. Parecia dormir como um anjo marmóreo com labios violetas.
Bailarette 4 weeks ago
I'm totally frightened... O.O
ParanormalBustersIT 1 month ago
my Grandmother was a midwife and she also dressed and prepared the dead. She had many of these remembrance photos. She was born in 1880 and died at the age of 100+ so she said many children would die of high fever with illness. There was also alot of children and adults dying during the influenza outbreak in the early 1918-20. The cost of a photographer was about 1 dollar but was expensive for all. The caskets were made to fit the person there were no prefab coffins like today.
tucchico 1 month ago
I cannot decide as to wether this is disrespectful to the dead.It's very sad the mortality rate amongst children in Victorian times!
JoeSoap68 1 month ago
very sad. some of the photos are quite moving.
Michelemybelle73 1 month ago
must have been rich ppl that could get these pics.
rjl408 1 month ago
In the last photo I wonder if anyone is deceased, although the woman in the middle is leaning heavily on the woman in front of her. Very well done collection of photos and I enjoyed the music. Very touching and sad.
Miss65boo 1 month ago
@Miss65boo my bet is on the middle and far left aswell..
tracytab 1 month ago
The ones with their eyes open look possessed.
ferociousgumby 1 month ago
Would the photo be taken at the house or was the corpse taken to the studio to pose? Beautiful pics but I can't imagine the smell of the body waiting around just to be photographed...
wysiwyg43 1 month ago
@wysiwyg43 Usually they would have the wake in their house, it's not like now when the dead are hauled off and kept at a funeral home. Usually the family would get together and put their money together to hire a camera man to take the pic at their house with love ones. People think this is creepy, but considering people didn't have cameras back then. This was the only time they could get the family together and get a pic with the loved one.
Chevymonster203 1 month ago
@wysiwyg43
Either or. The photographer could come to your parlor, or you could take the deceased to the studio for a more controlled backdrop and lighting situation. Dead babies and small children were more likely to be transported to the studios because of the minimal logistics involved. It was a bit tougher to transport the dead when it was 280-pound Aunt Maggie.
mnpd007 1 month ago
son fotos muy tristes,pero algo tenebrosas.
dianaxrk 1 month ago
I can't look. I can't look away.
ferociousgumby 1 month ago
beautiful pictures. Tragic for the poor children
AbneyParkFan 1 month ago
they do this because back then pictures were expensive. and really the only time they could get a family picture is if someone died. im sure it was very hard for these parents or kids to take a picture with their dead child or sibling but they do it for the remembrance of them. of course now a days i doubt anyone could have the courage to do this. i know i wouldn't. i'd break down
ragethedayaway 1 month ago
Some of the children's dolls in those photos are creepier than the bodies themselves.
setsunasamachan 2 months ago 2
That is some sad shit.
saltfan2 2 months ago
Though this scares me, May god bless those who passed before ever experiencing life. I am truly grateful to have been born and raised in these times. God may you rest.
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Photographs were so very expensive back then. People didn't have cameras to take a photo whenever they felt like it. Sometimes a postmortem photograph was the only shot the family would have of everyone together. There were special photographers who posed the deceased as if they were sleeping or they sometimes had frames to hold the deceased in a lifelike position. No antibiotics, medical doctors knew very little really, lots of children died of diarrhea or influenza.
gazoontight 2 months ago
yo wtf............
blitzvomitew16 2 months ago
Putz de q epoca eramessas imagens?
SS13GH05T 2 months ago
P.D. I CANT BELIEVE THE LADIES POSSING ON 6:04 !!
johnstone2010 2 months ago
Thrilling pictures and tough seems a strange practice, but is not exclusive of the victorian era and I can understand it; My mother took one pic of my dead brother; he was just 2 months old, died due a respiratory failure, and is the only image I have from him (he would be my oldest brother, died 7 years before I was born); thanks for sharing this pictures!
johnstone2010 2 months ago
So sad... :(
LilyMoth12 2 months ago
I wonder if it was so expensive to have a pictures taken, that they got the money together for the only chance of a family portrait with the whole family? If that was part of why it was done?
1PartAngel 2 months ago
MEMENTO MORI= REMEMBER DEATH !
Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die".
It names a genre of artistic work which varies widely, but which all
share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality.
The phrase has a tradition in art that dates back to antiquity.
JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL 2 months ago
Once "riga" sets in it would be pretty easy to prop them up, also for most of these families these photos are the only ones ever taken of their loved ones. I believe the mortician in those days took photos of their work as a gift to the families but also as a promotion of their work. Kind of a "commercial" if you will. "Hey I did this. I can do this for your loved one as well"
silvereagle2061 3 months ago
Why would someone even WANT pictures of their dead child(ren)...especially ones with their EYES OPEN?!! I think it's just awful. The music and video was very well put together I have to say though.
AmyIsUrGoddess 3 months ago
Wonderful video!! The music and photos make a perfect combination...
Penpen447 3 months ago
Some people in the photos seemed to be alive, were they alive people posing with the ones that passed or were they all gone that seemed alive? Some of the baby pictures were beautiful especially one of a small baby that simply looked like it was taking a nap and it would soon wake up. Perhaps not in this world, but I have no doubt that it did wake up in Heaven.
cptcrunch109 3 months ago
@cptcrunch109 some of them are alive but posing with the dead :]
DarkestHeart266 3 months ago
excelente video...y la música, de donde la obtuviste???
alassqueen 3 months ago
@alassqueen : ) la musica es de Nox Arcana y el track- lullaby.
isnogue 3 months ago
Sorry, I already see the name of the music in the credits
Kikatris 3 months ago
The name of the music pleaase
Kikatris 3 months ago
thank you for posting videos like this one. I enjoy looking at stuff like this. In fact my family still takes pictures of our family members who have died after they are at the funeral home for viewing them.
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ladyelle22 3 months ago
6:06 I have that same doll!!! Its a German Doll.
Hlejames 3 months ago
yeah not all of these pics arw post mortem. sorry.
beckasha83 3 months ago
triste, solo tristeza hay en estas fotos...
chzuniga1 3 months ago
italians' favor?
chrysina2011 3 months ago
weird how they make them look alive , when they are not
rubymoonpaws 3 months ago
I think it shows a healthy acceptance of death as a natural part of our lives. No judgement just love. But some of these are not Memento Mori at all.......a few are of living people.
TheWildheartmuse 3 months ago
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TheWildheartmuse 3 months ago
This is fucking sick! I think that people must remember their children at live, and not take picture when they are death....
thomas41681 3 months ago
@thomas41681
Most people didn't have photos of their own family. Many of these families were not upper class and photos were not cheap. The tax alone was to much for some (for several years they put tax stamps on the reverse). The average family of eight , would lose two kids before five. It was a numbers game for many. My grandmother was one of nine, they only lost one to the flu and one to war. But five boys lived after seeing action in WWII. That was luck.
haitipi 3 months ago
@haitipi That´s really fuck! :s......but it´s really strange!
thomas41681 3 months ago
There existed no medicine back then, at least none that could remedy a disease. People died of smallpox, flu, lung inflammation etc back then, diseases and viruses which we today can cure has vastly increased the chance of survival, yet still many kids who get malign tumours die. A while ago, they posted a post mortem in our newspaper, and its sad to see the dead face, which looks far more gruesome when life has left the body. Death was real back then and not shunned like today.
MrKdmmontana 3 months ago
i adore these, but lets not forget that taking a single photograph took up to an hour. can you imagine posing with a dead child for that long??
paganklh1 3 months ago
It's strange, in some of these, I can't tell who is living and who is dead.
KekoaOnorati 4 months ago
Sorry,but I will never get why they made the live siblings pose with the dead sibling! Too sad! :-(
Tangerinekashmir 4 months ago
Me fascina este tipo de fotos; he tomado fotos de algunos de mis familiar y amigos; es como cerrar una historia. Es un momento mágico. Espero que mis hijos, al menos uno de ellos haga lo mismo: cierre mi historia con una foto muy arreglada con una mortaja que está elegida hace mucho tiempo. Y no, no eres una enferma: en realidad la carita de susto de la nenita es tremenda, No habría obligado a uno de mis hijos a sostener un herman@ fallecido. Gracias. saludos.
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I won't be able to sleep tonight...
LeonieZajicek95 4 months ago
You still see this a good bit in the south.I know the older people in my family still take pictures in the coffin.(grandparents,great Aunts etc.)When my grandmother died she had quiet a few pictures of deceased love ones.Also I noticed a trend in my family is that a lot of family photos were taken in graveyards. Maw Maw once told me it was because a lot of time you only saw the family at church decorations once a year.
CassidyW84 4 months ago
@CassidyW84 I've noticed that in my family, we have very few, but my grands and parents have pics of my past relatives, im from south carolina and I always wondered why they took pics of the deceased.
23raynsc 4 months ago
@23raynsc My grandma hails from the south too.We were talking about this a while back and she explained that a long time ago people couldn't afford to get photos taken of their children,so when tragic events happened any money you could gather was used to get a picture taken of your little one.Sadly a death photo was sometimes the only photo you had of your child.It's sort of a tribute ,
even though they were only here for a short period of time you were letting the world know they existed.
jolieviolet21 4 months ago
Sensitively portrayed.Sadly today's modern trend towards squeamishness where anything relating to death has made 'memento mori' photography a thing of the past in the main.
popazz1 4 months ago
very few don't look like memento mori. The pictures are hauntingley beautiful, and yes very, very sad. Some funeral homes do offer this, and often families will ask for pictures-- although not as artistically done.
jaxz70 4 months ago
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jaxz70 4 months ago
this type of photography is very disturbing by todays social identity, yet very common practice in the Victorian era. IMO the most disturbing ones are the ones with their eyes open looking at you.........gives me chills
MrTonyFarrar 4 months ago
1:15 is freaking scary.
hayazi95 4 months ago
so sad , u see the pain , life is short ....
maxiv41 5 months ago
It was cheaper to take a Post Mortem picture of them than it was when they were alive and that's the real reason
amakuaole 5 months ago
Love the Victorian Era!
amakuaole 5 months ago
@jeanmunn O.O wow are you serious?
Naxer84 5 months ago
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jeanmunn 6 months ago
@jeanmunn And I always thought that you Canadians were so refined...............
zoobeedoo09 5 months ago
They had no photos of their children alive so they wanted a photo of them before they buried them to prove they existed....and were loved.
ajplassman 6 months ago 6
@ajplassman why not just take a pic when there alive
beachfeet1000 1 month ago
@beachfeet1000 Back then photography was expensive, so when a death occurred, a photo was taken as a person one really can't predict death
toxicpinkrabbit 1 month ago
lots wre alive,as the last,oh fuck...so fake some
GabrielDhalaman2 6 months ago
@ 1:00: That girl looks like she is really freaked out by this. They have obscured the boys face, so I suspect he wasn't looking very good @ that point. The thing people need to remember about these pictures. Photography was very new then, very expensive. No pictured of the deceased had probably been previoiusly taken. This was only chance they had to remember the dead.
VictorLepanto 6 months ago
@VictorLepanto I think that by the time photography was becoming more readily available [although as you said, still very expensive] people really didn't think it odd to have these sort of pictures taken...after all, the practice of making "death masks" had been around for years. But normal or not, yeah, I'd freak out too if I'd have been a kid posing with a corpse!
ncdude367 6 months ago
@ncdude367: Most people don't seem to be too bothered, even the other children. Death was part of life. Most funerals happened in the home, except for Catholic ones. Everyone would sit up w/ the dead. It is the particular image @ 1:00 which strking. If you look at it, the boy's eyes have been retouched. He must have begun to experience some significant decomposition.
VictorLepanto 6 months ago
@VictorLepanto ...emotive choice of words there....
AXOhm 6 months ago
@AXOhm: Do you think that maybe some of these people are NOT dead. In some pictures all the figures are standing. It was rather difficult to tell WHO was supposed to be dead. I think the author of this work might have thrown in some ordinary photos to confuse us.
VictorLepanto 6 months ago 2
@VictorLepanto In a textbook they had a couple of pictures like these where some are standing. They actually prop up the bodies on a stand to make them seem as if they are alive. It was the relatives' way of trying to remember their loved ones as they were alive I suppose.
juannabanana 6 months ago
@juannabanana: Your comment just made me think of something. People don't take pictures at funerals usually. Not today anyway. Just think about it. Birthday parties, graduations, weddings, etc.; it is snap, snap, snap every second. Not at a funeral.
VictorLepanto 6 months ago
@VictorLepanto No, not today at least not often... I'm sure there are a few who will take pictures at a funeral today, but it would be considered crass now (well depends on that family's view). I would not want to take a picture at a funeral, who wants to remember their loved one in death? Back then, we might have accepted it though.
juannabanana 6 months ago
@VictorLepanto ...i have a video of memento mori...there is a slight explanation at the begining of the vid.
AXOhm 6 months ago
@VictorLepanto I don't think so. I've seen most of these photos in a museum before. The ones standing were accomplished by a sort of rack that looks much like what people use to stand up dolls. It could even hold the head and arms in different positions. I have a post mortem photo of a great-great-great grandparent standing up.
NyteScrybe 5 months ago
It's a little frightening that in a lot of these photographs, if you weren't watching this video, you'd have no idea that the subjects had already passed when they were taken.
It's just... strange.
Strezlecky 6 months ago
They are so peaceful in these pictures....kind of morbid when they pose with the dead..but I know why they did. May their souls be blessed.
Binghamsworld 7 months ago 8
At 4:47 are both children dead?
BCAD01 7 months ago
The pictures of the mothers are specially haunting. Most of them look so dead themselves. Their eyes so vacant and their faces so stony. It's heartbreaking.
akissy 7 months ago 5
@akissy It's because of the high infant mortality rate. Those poor folks didn't know about sanitation and germs hence cholera, diptheria, tetnus,tuberculosis,and other diseases that are out of existence today. Nonetheless,it is heartbreaking.....
BCAD01 7 months ago
@BCAD01 what so did they not wash / is that how the children died ?
shaneac9 7 months ago
@shaneac9 No,NO! It's many factors. It's not just personal hygiene it's that microbes and germs weren't known at that time. Cholera and tetnus et al are bacteria spread by contact with an infected person. Did people wash then? Sure but not to the degree as we do today and we learn from these poor folks as we have in other ares besides medicine...A shame nonetheless....
BCAD01 7 months ago
What is the name of the lovely song that is playing?
MsExplosionshurt 7 months ago
For many people in Victorian era, this had to be the unique picture in their life. At 3:50 who was the dead?
gzztal 8 months ago
@gzztal It looks to me to be the one on the chair. Her mother seems to be holding her back.
silvereagle2061 3 months ago
For many people in Victorian era, this had to be the unique picture in their life.
gzztal 8 months ago
how long after death do they take the pictures and do they embomb them back then?
Midnightryder7 8 months ago
@ Yodasstuff, I found a picture of a little girl is sitting in a chair surrounded by dolls. When I first saw it I thought her eyes were open. But either way it made me uneasy.
PatrickCervantez 8 months ago
I think it would have been better to make them look like their sleeping instead of trying to pretend the person isn't dead.
When you look at the picture you're going to knodw they were dead regardless if the eyes were painted open if they were posed a certain way.
Yodasstuff 8 months ago
@Yodasstuff the ones in the caskets don't bother me near as much as the ones propped up to look alive
tranurse 8 months ago
This probably sounds stupid, but Im just wondering, why did they have these pictures taken? Ive never heard about it ever being a tradition in Denmark, though. Its very interesting I think.
RhodosTina 8 months ago
I find it amazing how people thought back then. What would make them think this was a proper idea?
TheWavy87 8 months ago
@TheWavy87 it was the only way they have to keep an image of that person....
Telmalex 8 months ago
@TheWavy87 I find it amazing how some Americans think these days. What would make them think this is an improper idea?
(legacy of the Mayflower fanatics perhaps?)
Get a life
mossfitz 8 months ago
At the end is say to R.I.P. but some of these people are standing up with eyes open, what is that all about? REST in peace! mean to lay down, relax, take a load off. Not get dressed up, get stood up, open your eyes to take a picture. Nevertheless a great tribute video to those that have done what we one day will have to do.
hotpeachjuicy 8 months ago
may all those little angels rest in peace ,,, i know they have been gone for year's and year's , this is a lovely tribute to tham . it's beautiful.
WarriorLaurie 9 months ago 3
I believe many of these are regular "live family" photographs....I mean, even back then, would it not be totally creepy to have your arm around or vice versa, a dead person? Esp one who has been dead a few days? I doubt there is any way to pose a dead person to look like a live one, rigor would prevent this.
AnywhereButHere09 9 months ago
@AnywhereButHere09 ummm, not it wasn't creepy. It was the only picture many could afford in their lifetime, so why not do it? If you couldn't afford but ONE picture in your entire life, wouldn't want to have it even if the person was dead? Also, they were emblamed and preserved as much as they could, the funerals took longer than they take these days. Read a bit, your questions will be answered if you only care to read instead of making judgements. ^^
akissy 7 months ago
@akissy I totally agree....embalming was not perfected, and funerals took longer, hence more decay much sooner. I would bet most of the post mortem photos are not, and our forefathers stretched truths as much as our nearfathers in the labeling of thing....ie snake oil treatments?
AnywhereButHere09 7 months ago
@AnywhereButHere09
Surprisingly we often find the opposite, they were using much stronger chemicals that were better at embalming back then, whereas today we dont use them due to their damaging effects on the environment
animesis 3 months ago
Some of these look like live photographs?
AnywhereButHere09 9 months ago
Nevermind. It's Lullaby by Nox Arcana. I knew it was Nox Arcana. I love them <3
TheOn3LeftBehind 9 months ago
What music piece is this?!
TheOn3LeftBehind 9 months ago
How can you tell that one of them is dead? In some pictures I really have no idea at all!! They're arranged standing, seated, in all kind of positions, with their head up straight and whatever, I couldn't tell the difference, but apparantly someone here is an expert on the subject?
Lijge 10 months ago 2
@Lijge That's what I was wondering. In a lot of them the people have their eyes open, and they were posing. So I wonder if people left the persons eyes open if they died with them open, or did they pry them open to create a picture that appeared as if they were still living. Plus, they're ALL dead now, so how do we know for sure about ANY post-mortem pictures from the Victorian era.
LadyLotus74 9 months ago
the ones that get me are the ones where the surviving children are posed with their dead siblings
tranurse 10 months ago 2
@meattube2009
Hounting in conneticut?
I saw that movie!
EatMyCookie1234 10 months ago
Are all those pictures taken post mortem? Some of the people seem to be very much alive?
padreq12 10 months ago
@padreq12 That's because photography was a very expensive product on those days. And sometimes someone died without getting their picture taken while still alive. That's why they sometimes arranged the dead body in a way to look alive.
Motorskallen 10 months ago
@padreq12 THIS IS SO TRUE SOMETIMES I DONT EVEN NO WHICH ONE IS THE PERSON THATS NOT ALIVE ,THIS HAPPENS MORE WITH THE PICTURES THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY IS TOGETHER..
diana8544 10 months ago
Sad, but with an unexplainable touch of beauty...
crazeerenegade 11 months ago 20
I am proud to say that my great grandmother held on to her "death photos" of her children until her death in 2006. I am sad to report that no one would let me take pictures of the funeral or keep the pictures of her angel babies. I am not morbid, I have the pictures of my angel who was a stillborn. May you all be blessed and never know the heartache!
punkmomto3 11 months ago
@punkmomto3 That's too bad. Do you think it is because of rigid thinking?
scorpietta 11 months ago
I've seen the pic at 5:07 before. A very powerful photo.
Lockbar 11 months ago
Children died all the time from diseases that we have vaccines for today and of course fever and infection. What is really a shame is the amount of parents not vaccinating their kids today, we are going to see these diseases come back.
TheLittlelamb3 1 year ago
Weird and fascinating at the same time. Very sad seeing all those young babies and children though. Poor little things.
TeamKilday 1 year ago 13
As scary as this may seem, in Americas past grieving families sometimes had only the death photos of their departed loved ones to remember. Sad.
ke4bss 1 year ago
The music is very haunting and it is perfect for creating emotion while veiwing these pics. Beautifully done.
Anita644 1 year ago 2
Absolutely fascinating ,I think this style of photography is so important in remembering a member of the family ,who may not be around but will always be a member ,that can not be undone xxx
morriganwitch 1 year ago
nice video, but this is creepy.
MsJaymusic 1 year ago
Yes it is wonderful...but terrific....
ARTEMIDEFESINA73 1 year ago
At 6:06 I am sure it is the woman in the middle who is dead; the one with her head resting on the other girl. At 2:12 I think both might be dead. 2:59 I think the little boy and maybe the father.
movierocks 1 year ago
The song is "Lullaby" by "Nox Arcana"
Sl0wDiv3 1 year ago
isn't it weird that these pictures were taking to help the parents and family members cope with the pain of losing somebody but at the same time gave them everlasting life. People will be seeing this for years to come!
R.I.P
YaRisbabe0707 1 year ago
sad thing is these are prob the only picture these people ever had taken
meattube2009 1 year ago
6;06 who is deceased?
Jeannenyc57 1 year ago
@Jeannenyc57 My guess is the middle one.
Eir1 1 year ago
Shocking! All those children.... oh my god....
judokagirl83 1 year ago
The name of the song, please?
javierkenjutsoka 1 year ago
Almost all! would have lived if they were born today. The sad fact is 70% of all people walking around today should be dead.
goodagofilms 1 year ago
lets get a grip on life hey!!how they did it well!!
CHEADLE69 1 year ago
lets ge a grip on life hey!!
CHEADLE69 1 year ago
They had stands by which they were propped up with wires that went into the sleeves and around the legs. This had to be an expensive procedure. After the picture was developed, a retoucher would even make the eyes open to make the person standing to appear more life-like.
lyricalaska 1 year ago
They had stands by which they were propped up with wires that went into the sleeves and around the legs. This had to be an expensive procedure.
lyricalaska 1 year ago
2:59 who is dead?
BONNEVILLE2000 1 year ago
2:15 who is dead? how do they get them to stand up?
BONNEVILLE2000 1 year ago
Que frágil que es el ser humano , parece irónico pero quien la fotografió la inmortalizo para siempre .
josepepe97 1 year ago
in some ways in the Victorian era, there was a more prosaic attitude towards death. in a few "memento mori" photos, the person hadn't actually died yet but did not have long on this earth, so a photo was taken to remember them by. some living siblings were posed alongside their deceased brother/sister, which i find a bit disturbing as it may have been very upsetting for them.
OzTerri 1 year ago
four of the photos are not of the deceased, but it's still a great video.
grofys 1 year ago
godbless angels xx. Thanks for sharing, nicely done x
1980evie 1 year ago
what a different world to have lived in
Skoople88 1 year ago
cual es la cansion? se olle genial
rsokata 1 year ago
SO HAUNTING, BUT BEAUTIFUL!!
myfatcat1994 1 year ago
sadielives2006: I saw that picture in another video: is the father who is dead.
57FARINA 1 year ago
At 3:50, is it the mother in the middle who is dead?
sadielives2006 1 year ago
@sadielives2006 I think so.
silvereagle2061 3 months ago
AxxxSsxxxBlues Gracias, eres muy gentil al contestar, pero aún me queda la duda. Imagínate que hay un daguerotipo que dice textualmente "Fulanita ocho días después de morir". ¿Tal vez alguna forma de embalsamamiento? Taxidermia o algo parecido...Saludos
57FARINA 1 year ago
se nota en la cara de algunos que sufrieron al morir... T_T
Noshekeponer 1 year ago
Children should not die or get sick... It has always been my opinion.
ElChaguen 1 year ago
En muy pocas ocasiones puedo adivinar quién es el o la difunto (a). Me fascinan estas fotografías. Me pregunto lo mismo que alguno de tus seguidores¿Cómo hacían para fotografiar los muertos de pié?
57FARINA 1 year ago
@57FARINA Quizas utilizaban el rigor mortis para mantenerlos en una posición especifica, no estoy realmente seguro.
AxxxSsxxxBlues 1 year ago
I can't believe
they are all dead people
It looks lilke just sleeping
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jackfuckingmord 1 year ago
2:12...whoa! i'm guessing the one on the right is dead?
UnshackledWoman 1 year ago
some of them dont even look dead how did they get them to stand up? and make there eyes look a certain way?
smileykisses420 1 year ago
@smileykisses420 ...The photographer would sometimes use chairs with wires or strings to hold them up under their clothing. Some eyes were left open as they recently passed, and some eyes were 'painted' on. As strange as these rituals sound, the mortality rate among children back then was incredibly high. And as heart-breaking as it was, disease & death came for most too early. The 'memento-mori' was part of the healing and memorialization process for the family.
kimsue68 1 year ago
@kimsue68 interesting! it is strange to see the other family memebers still holding them and acting as though there not next to someone who is dead.
smileykisses420 1 year ago
@smileykisses420 Yes, these photos were usually a pkg. deal with the funeral parlor, A photographer would pose the kid's as if they were sleeping,( tastefully), as these were mostly, the only photo the family had of the child. Sadly, but true. This era did not have the disconnection we have with death, as the diseases and infections that took the lives of children 100 + yrs.ago has been eradicated with modern medicine.
01jamilynn 1 year ago