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The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.
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It's a dying art.
My great great grandmother died right as her family had purchased their first camera. To make up for this, they took a picture of her in her coffin and drew in eyes. The picture was super creepy and I wish we still had it but it has been lost for a long time now.