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Home interior but with a post mortem. Fig this is for you.
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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 60957, member: 121"]Since we "lent out" our NYC drawing room for the wake of a visiting British Peer in 1846 my family has "funeral-ed" thousands, from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds - and I can tell you with some authority that with this photo "you ain't seen nuttin"...............</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen professional photographers hired to take photos at viewings that have included removing the deceased from the casket and posing them all over the room, in some of the most interesting tableaux............and a room full of wailing grannies passing about a bitty bairn to cuddle while their pic was taken is a sight you DON"T want to remember. </p><p><br /></p><p>The contemporary cellphone selfie? Ha! Old hat........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 60957, member: 121"]Since we "lent out" our NYC drawing room for the wake of a visiting British Peer in 1846 my family has "funeral-ed" thousands, from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds - and I can tell you with some authority that with this photo "you ain't seen nuttin"............... I have seen professional photographers hired to take photos at viewings that have included removing the deceased from the casket and posing them all over the room, in some of the most interesting tableaux............and a room full of wailing grannies passing about a bitty bairn to cuddle while their pic was taken is a sight you DON"T want to remember. The contemporary cellphone selfie? Ha! Old hat........[/QUOTE]
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