dear taking pictures of dead people diary,
i think it is down right morbid to take pictures of the dead. but some people do it. and my parents were some of those people. on the same hand- had they not of taken a picture of my grandpa's mother- who died a month before i was born- ida never had the chance to see her face. the story goes- she would never allow her photo to be takes EVER until she was dead and she told everybody when she died they could take as many pictures as they wanted of her- and so they did. so in our family photo album- there she is- dead. we had a bunch of her things when i was growing up too- and i'd be like, "whose is this mommy? the dead lady's?" and my mom would say, "honey, that is your great grandmother's." yeah, dead people pretty much need their own photo album. it seems wrong in some way to have her next to the living grandmas. i dunno why my parents took pictures at funerals. i thought it was wrong myself. it was my mom mostly. but when she died- that's all i wanted was a picture of her. but nobody would let me take one. i am glad today.
i think it is down right morbid to take pictures of the dead. but some people do it. and my parents were some of those people. on the same hand- had they not of taken a picture of my grandpa's mother- who died a month before i was born- ida never had the chance to see her face. the story goes- she would never allow her photo to be takes EVER until she was dead and she told everybody when she died they could take as many pictures as they wanted of her- and so they did. so in our family photo album- there she is- dead. we had a bunch of her things when i was growing up too- and i'd be like, "whose is this mommy? the dead lady's?" and my mom would say, "honey, that is your great grandmother's." yeah, dead people pretty much need their own photo album. it seems wrong in some way to have her next to the living grandmas. i dunno why my parents took pictures at funerals. i thought it was wrong myself. it was my mom mostly. but when she died- that's all i wanted was a picture of her. but nobody would let me take one. i am glad today.
