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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Victorian Death Photography
I have always found postmortem
photography, especially of children, extremely poignant. They
induce in me a sweet melancholy.
Have you seen "hair pictures?" Maybe they're only endemic to New England, but in the Victorian era, people would collect locks of hair of the departed to create patterned art, all nicely framed and hung on the wall.
Even more creepy... You may have heard of this before, but libraries have books bound in human skin.. Apparently it wasn't so odd to pass on a bit of yourself to your relatives... (me? I'm gonna be cremated.. f*** them all, I don't want anything usable left behind)
My creepy meter is pegged.
ReplyDeleteI just found out that this practice continues in our hospitals, at least in NICU and O.B.
ReplyDeleteHere's my "simple" opinion... That's just CREEPY, I don' care who ya are! Gross, Rodgie. Juice
ReplyDeleteHave you seen "hair pictures?" Maybe they're only endemic to New England, but in the Victorian era, people would collect locks of hair of the departed to create patterned art, all nicely framed and hung on the wall.
ReplyDeleteEven more creepy... You may have heard of this before, but libraries have books bound in human skin.. Apparently it wasn't so odd to pass on a bit of yourself to your relatives... (me? I'm gonna be cremated.. f*** them all, I don't want
ReplyDeleteanything usable left behind)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/11/ap/strange/mainD8F26STG0.shtml
remember kids, that's a cbs news link. Wash your hands after you click it.
(If the link doesn't work, just google "bound "human skin") ....shudder.. chill...