My urge to hurl has increased a little bit.
Happy Easter..... Nightmares
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My urge to hurl has increased a little bit.
Dave 123
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wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
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[QUOTE 5199521, member: 259"]Easter is far from a happy time in the Christian calendar so I'm always surprised to be wished a happy one.[/QUOTE]
Easter is a very happy season indeed. Lent and Passiontide are the more somber parts.
Easter is a very happy season indeed. Lent and Passiontide are the more somber parts.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Some of them sort of remind me of the Victorian 'hidden mother' photographs.
https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2012/01/05/hidden-mothers-in-victorian-portraits/
flake99please
We all scream for ice cream
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Creme egg, Scotch egg, anyone?
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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Now that is very scary and just plain wrong
smutchin
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jefmcg
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winjim
Smash the cistern
There seems to be some debate about whether the hidden mother photos are in fact memento mori, as discussed here:
https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com...n-photography-post-mortem-photographs-or-not/
Easter's all about new life and rebirth. You can't have that without death. I'm comfortable with it as a seasonal subject.
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jefmcg
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Does it really seem that far a step from my OP?How did we go from cream egg scotch eggs to dead children in 4 posts?
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jefmcg
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Fair enough. I've wrapped my image in a spoiler (@winjim, can you do the same in your quote?)
I personally find this stuff fascinating, how different cultures - and I think the Victorians are a different culture - regard death.
When I was searching for some images to share, I kept finding sites about "weird" Victorian death photos, but are they weird? I wonder what history will say about our death rituals. I spoke to an Indian friend, whose mother was there when my friend's father in law died**. She was a doctor, so lead them in the appropriate rituals of washing and dressing the body. I remembered this ruefully, when my dad died, and handed him over to strangers to prepare. I'm pretty sure that embalming (which I did not request) is very weird.
@Slick is going to be further mystified how the thread got to this place. Soz!
**India has an English word for the relationship between your parents and your spouse's parents: co-parents. I don't know why we don't.
Slick
Guru
You don't need to put it behind a spoiler for me. I don't really find it fascinating but I do know the Victorians did and had some strange ideas of what death meant. I know what you mean about handing over parents or other loved ones, but not everyone even does that the same as I can personally testify.
The dead children are a bit much for me, if I'm being honest.
