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Apr 3, 2024 · A hiker took this photo of a giant black bear on his cell phone moments before it chased and mauled him to death. Darsh Patel was hiking with four friends in New Jersey in 2014 and used his cell ...
Jul 15, 2019 · A New York man claimed to kill and decapitate 17-year-old female gamer Bianca Devins before posting photos of the gruesome murder to her Discord account. Police in Utica, New York, are ...
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- A Week Before My Grandfather Passed Away, I Snuck His Favorite Beer Into The Nursing Home For Him. It was his last beer ever. Report. Final score: 500 points.
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- Why Did People Take Post-Mortem Photos?
- The Creation of Post-Mortem Photos
- Beyond Victorian Death Photos: Masks, Mourning, and Memento Mori
- Fake Victorian Post-Mortem Photos
In the first half of the 19th century, photography was a new and exciting medium. So the masses wanted to capture life's biggest momentson film. Sadly, one of the most common moments captured was death. Due to the high mortality rates, most people couldn't expect to live past their 40s. And when disease spread, infants and children were especially ...
Photographing dead people may seem like a ghastly task. But in the 19th century, deceased subjects were often easier to capture on film than living ones — because they weren't able to move. Due to the slow shutter speed of early cameras, subjects had to remain still to create crisp images. When people visited studios, photographers would sometimes ...
People in the Victorian era mourned deeply after the death of a loved one — and this mourning certainly wasn't limited to photos. It was common for widows to wear black for years after their husbands died. Some even clipped hair from their dead loved ones and preserved the locks in jewelry. As if that wasn't dark enough, Victorians often surrounded...
Today, some Victorian death photos shared online are actually fakes— or they're photographs of the living mistaken for the dead. Take, for example, a commonly shared image of a man reclining in a chair. "The photographer posed a dead person with his arm supporting the head," many captions claim. But the photograph in question is a picture of the au...
Nov 7, 2017 · Anne Frank, 15, 1929-1945. This photo of Anne Frank was taken in 1942, and is one of the last images of her alive. Frank died in March 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after her and her family were discovered and arrested on August 4th, 1944. She is pictured with her sister, Margot.
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Jun 4, 2016 · By Bethan Bell. Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the ...
Jun 23, 2022 · The emotional outdoor gallery displays 50 smiling photos taken in the last days of people who died by suicide. It also shares the stories of shock and grief their families and friends experienced.
