A photography, painting or drawing of yourself on your death bed or a post-mortem picture. People in the past saw it as a honor or a nice thing to get one, but I rarely hear about this thing nowadays. Seems like death is more of a taboo today than in the past. Especially among privileged first world people from my own experience. So I'm wondering if you would like to get one or not.
I would be fine with a painting/drawing, but not a photo. On photos you gets an ugly background and bad details. A painting shows the right atmosphere and feeling better. It also looks better than photos. They don't need to paint all the things if the room isn't tidy. It's not morbid imho. Death is a natural part of life and 1st world people makes it a taboo - something they shouldn't. Death and other part of life can be good art by the way. https://cf.girlsaskguys.com/q3370506/939e80c4-821
Would You Be Fine With A Death Bed Photo/Painting Of You?
I would much rather be remembered in a more positive light. Not to say death should be a necessarily negative thing. I mean we all have to die what I am saying is I don't want my family to remember me by how I look on my death bed. Yes it's an honor but to walk by a picture of your dead relative on their death bed would bring sadness would it not? If I had to see a picture of my dead parents on their death bed everyday I would get sad and think of those last days again. Whereas if I looked at pictures of them up and healthy and living life that would make me smile and think of the good memories.
I'd be ok with both. I love art and I feel those photos/paintings capture things words can not express.
I recently read that people are actually having their family members tattooed skin removed and preserved so it can serve as a memorial and be passed down through generations. www.cbc.ca/.../...rve-them-after-you-die-1.3268803
Although I do think it is a little weird, I wouldn't be against it. Kind of a "here's what he looked like with his last days on Earth."
I wouldn't say it's something to be ashamed of. Everyone dies at some point, and I would hope that we are wiser and at the best we can be at the end. Your whole life has led up to that moment.. so why not record it?
There is one thing that people find interesting that is similar... People are always curious what the last meal of a deathrow inmate is/was. It says something about them, and I think a deathbed drawing or photo can do the same.
No, that's kind of awkward. I think I'd want to enjoy the last moments of my life. I'd want to relax and spend time with my loved ones. It's kind of hard to do that when there's some person in the room taking photos of you or - even worse - painting you.
Voted C because once I'm dead my opinion won't matter. I'd be fine with whatever my family wanted, if they wanted something like that.
There's a museum in my city that has postmortem photos. They're interesting and I understand back then it was an honor, but to me they're just bizarre. I'm not a fan of funerals and tend to block out having seen the person in the casket from my memory. My mom had me take a photo of my grandfather's funeral, the room where the casket was and the flowers surrounding it. I ended up deleting it because I hated to see it, I didn't want to relive the memories of his death nor was him in the casket how I wanted to remember him.
But ultimately it's harmless so whatever helps the loved one's grieve.
I have a huge family and their is always someone dying. Elderly and middle age now. There had always been a couple of aunts who made sure the was a photograph in the casket. It creeped me out for years. Now, I don't want to be the one to take the photos but it doesn't bother me so much. The practice of portraits at or after death was practical in the era without photography. We only know what Henry VIII looks like is because of his portraits. I never met my fraternal grandmother and only picture I have seen of her was a photo in a yellow fever clinic ward as she was of dying yellow fever. I thought it was to weird to look at until I was older and looking for my historical self. I have no problem to preserve our family histories.
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I don't care. I'm dead. That's a problem for the alive ones. I wouldn't like to have a painting of my dead mother in the living room, though. But if someone likes to have a dead picture of me, it's ok, that's not gonna hurt me or offend me, specially because, again, I'm dead.
I never thought about thos until i saw your question. Well... yeah i'd love a painting of me but i don't want this to be on my bed or something so common. I want this to be something like a suicide or a horrifying murder scene. That doesn't mean i wanna kill myself i just thing it will be intersting
Both are okay, I'll be dead anyway and I'm also donating everything usable so why not that too. I've used my husk so it's time for someone else to find purpose for it.
Why not? Im dead anyway at that point. I guess its about how one will be remembered, i won't so dont really care. Even if im still alive when its done i dont care too much
Im cool with either, especially if they paint or shoot me flashing the steel horns. Also, please have have a collage of the pic with all your funniest captions up at my viewing/ funeral/ wake.
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