G2G: Coffin pictures allowed

Question

Are we allowed to add pictures of someone in their coffin? My grandparents had a child in the 1940s and he died from whooping cough as a baby. The only picture of the child the family had taken was when he was laying in his coffin.

Answer 1

Allowed, yes. In good taste or necessary, probably not.

Answer 2

And this is how the pictures of the dead started. Many people did not have images of their families but when one died, they had a photograph taken to remember them. This still happens today but only in the newborn world. I am a newborn photographer but volunteer with an organization that takes images of families who have experienced the loss of a newborn or infant.

Comments

Not only in the newborn world. I have a friend who is a professional photographer is frequently scheduled for funeral photographs, including images of the deceased.

However, those images are not typically shared outside of the family.

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I stand corrected. I have a photographer who has photographed funerals.