Well, it's easy to get them to hold still

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:21 am

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's obsession with camera-equipped mobile phones has taken a bizarre twist, with mourners at funerals now using the devices to capture a final picture of the deceased.

"I get the sense that people no longer respect the dead. It's disturbing," a funeral director told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

At one ceremony several people gathered round the coffin and took out their phones to photograph the corpse as preparations were made to begin a cremation, she was quoted as saying.

"I'm sure the deceased would never want their faces photographed," she said.

But others called it a form of a memento in the modern age.

"Some can't grasp 'reality' unless they take a photo and share it with others ... It comes from a desire to keep a strong bond with the deceased," social commentator Toru Takeda told the paper.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:24 am

Ida str8 up whupped somones ass if they whipped out there phones and started takin pictures at either one of my parents funerals.. People really have no class anymore.

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:28 am

Why? If they want one last picture to keep for memory sake then go ahead. I wouldn't mind if someone took photo's of my parents at their funerals or me at mine. Then again I don't really know what's customary for funerals in the US.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:38 am

I know that im quite touchy about both of my parents deaths and i know that i think takin a picture of either of them all fucked up like they were is very offensive to me and not a photo i think anyone should have. Look at pics of them when they were alive . I guess it depends on the body. Neither of my parents looked good after they died so i wouldnt have tolerated it.

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:43 am

Not to get too personal, but didn't the mortician etc fix them up or was it impossible? If it was anything other than a pleasantly resting person, they should have done a closed casket, no?

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:46 am

My mom was just really swollen im not sure what made her so swollen. She had cancer and after her operation staff took over her body.... My dad he looked fairly normal he was just kinda yellow. Either way i dont think those are pics id want anyone to have. I guess my dad maybe if thats your thing but in the case of my mom i woulda curb stomped anyone that whipped there phone out for "one last pic"

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:52 am

Japanese are on a completely different plane though, you have to remember. I mean, damn, look at their game shows and porn.

Sorry about your folks btw. I'm dreading those days...

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:23 am

yeah well people would have seen me go redneck on them doing that at my parents or friends funerals

Post by **Martrae** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:38 am

It's creepy to take pictures of dead people. Why the hell would you want to remember some in their casket?

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:32 pm

I actually have a fascination with memento mori.

I would have no problem with someone taking a picture at my, my husband, my daughter, my parents funeral. It's just another way to grieve, to remember and all that.

araby · Post by **araby** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:09 pm

Weird story:

My Granny was a christian woman and had more class than anyone I've ever known. She and my Grandad were on vacation at their condo about 15 years ago, when a woman fell from her balcony 8 stories to the cement by the swimming pool and was killed instantly. She was yelling back and forth to her husband who was standing on the beach. (not yelling as in arguing-yelling so they could hear I guess) My Grandad and my Brother were on the beach as well when they saw her fall.

for some weird reason, that my Granny could never explain, (and she prayed about this over and over thinking she'd never get into heaven over it) she took a picture of that woman's body. :ugh:

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:21 pm

It's easy to get them to hold still but try to get them to say cheeeese is another story.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:36 pm

spazz wrote:Ida str8 up whupped somones ass if they whipped out there phones and started takin pictures at either one of my parents funerals.. People really have no class anymore.

str8 up y0

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:38 pm

Harrison wrote:
spazz wrote:Ida str8 up whupped somones ass if they whipped out there phones and started takin pictures at either one of my parents funerals.. People really have no class anymore.

str8 up y0

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:13 pm

word dawg.