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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1844393, member: 289"]
It was very common in those days: [URL='https://www.google.com/search?q=victorian+post+mortem+pictures&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI06zoyLnOAhUBxCYKHUNoDhwQsAQIHg']victorian post mortem pictures - Google Search[/URL]

It helps to understand why they did it. Cameras were not common back then and you had to go to a professional photographer  for a picture. The average person couldn't afford to do that too often. When someone died, that person, especially if it was a child, had probably never had their picture taken before. This was a way of preserving their image. Once cameras became common, there were plenty of pictures taken when people were alive and no one would think to take a picture of them when they were not because that isn't what they wanted to remember. Spirtualism was popular at that time as well and I suspect preserving an image of the dead was regarded as a good thing to do by people who believed in that as well. Cameras seemed to be a way of defying time and keeping people 'alive' after a fashion. It didn't seem as ghoulish to them as it did to us.
[URL="http://www.viralnova.com/post-mortem-victorian-photographs/"]The Truth Behind This Photo is Shocking, But It Used to Happen All of the Time. OMG...[/URL]

Trying to keep the faith for this lifeless Mets team caused such images to appear in my thoughts. It's sad and sentimental in this stillborn season. At least we get to wait until next year.
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