Featured I have 2 post mortem photos - help me list them quick please!

Heart-breaking. Yes, they need a good home. The only thing that comes to my mind is that, in the description, you emphasize the human factor, how they need a good home, how it's a monument to so much love, we're all related to each other in humankind, these people ought not be forgotten? I dunno... maudlin, huh? But I do believe it. Good luck.

 

Copy and paste most of what you said and let them go.

 

I think most of the people who collect them, do so because they *feel* something for them, not because they are weirdos.
So they likely will go to a good home.

 

Hi Book,
If they make you feel anxious or depressed I suggest you get rid of them asap. I have several of family and they do not bother me. One which does seem odd was my great great grandfather died and she widow did not have a photograph of him. She had him propped up on the sofa and she has her arm in his. It is horrible because you can tell he is dead and she isn't. I don't think she liked the photo.
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I usually find post-mortems a little creepy, but these two, while sad, seem sort of oddly lovely, especially with the sweet notes from his brother...

~Cheryl

 

I agree. Some of the photo groups I belong to on Facebook include some post-mortem collectors. There are in fact some groups that are specifically for post-mortem photography. (I don't belong to those.) This is not my cup of tea, but I agree the collectors tend to seem more sympathetic and sensitive about it than anything else. I'm sure there are exceptions.

 

Surely the departed are reified or consecrated by our remembrances. I hope so.

 

I would certainly sell together. It would seem wrong to separate them.

I don't have any such pictures about but I do have a lovely painting of a couple of young girls that is early. I bought it because I liked the frame and can not bring myself to remove their picture so they have became a part of the family in a way. When my step daughters were home they hated the picture though.

 

You are such a sweet and caring person, Book... you rescued these peoples' spirits, and you hope to find them a home. Good for you. I wouldn't have had the courage.

 

is it just me or do the 2 writings on the backs ...not quite line up.

Why does one say it's the only picture.....why are some dates erased....& why does it look like several people had a hand in writing those .???

 

I also think they were written by the same hand, but probably at four different points in time and he was mistaken, more than once, about the dates, later correcting with the correct and complete dates - the picture with his aunt may have been in her possession until passed on to him much later. Have seen those same kind of variations in my own writing over the years, as well as in my family members', and some corrections in family records too...

~Cheryl

 

Technically they are not cabinet cards... but so many people use the term incorrectly that I think it's not a problem. I would call them card-mounted photographs or something like that.