Where I grew up (Mississippi), it was a common thing to take pics of the deceased at funerals.

Why oh why..
 

I decided to take a look at wireimage to view pictures from ODB's funeral. WHY OHHHHHHHH WHYYYY does a caption read "Passion Jones, Kirshana Rucker and Suzanne Dirt McGirt's Babies Mothers." :rolleyes:

This lady at my mom's church sent my sister the VIDEOTAPE of her son's funeral in the mail. There were these 10-15 minutes shots of her son in the casket, etc. My sister was SPOOKED out. WTF do you send people a videotape in the mail titled "Tony's Homegoing Service". The same woman invited me to her house to watch the tape and look at countless photographs of her son in the casket - at every angle no less. I had to make up an excuse to get the heck out of there.

It's pretty weird - this same woman acutally has a VIDEO LIBRARY of about 30 people's funeral services...and she watches that chit on the regular.

I'm sorry, but is reality TV not enough for you?

It must be a southern thing, cause at every family funeral we always take pictures. I also believe that one of the funeral homes in town take polaroid snapshops of the deceased and give them to the family as part of the funeral package.

I saw part of The View yesterday, and everyone seemed to be all smiles. Still, Star should not have put them on blast in public. That whole conversation could have taken place backstage or somewhere.

Re: Lots and Lots of NEWS
 

FROM THE MIAMI HERALD 11/18/04

R. Kelly report an Internet hoax


An item in Saturday's People column incorrectly reported that R&B singer R. Kelly had been hit with a summons by the family of singer Ashanti, for allegedly making sexual advances toward her younger sister while backstage at a recent awards show.

''This is an Internet hoax and was never reported by The Associated Press,'' said Kristin Gazlay, AP deputy managing editor for national news. ``It's all over the place.''

There is no truth to the item; no charges are pending.

I pass on the funeral pictures. At my friend's funeral in October, her uncle was there with a camcorder. No one else seemed to notice him, but I was staring him DOWN, like "Ohhhh HELL NO!!!" :mad:

I have seen funeral pictures with people posing next to the casket like they are taking one of those polaroids you take at the club!! :eek: :eek:

Sometimes I wonder if I should have taken pictures of my loved ones in their final state, but I know that I would go to PIECES if I ever looked at them.

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The idea of funeral pix is just ghoulish to me. I could barely deal with seeing my father at his viewing, so I wouldn't imagine taking pictures.

I first noticed photos being taken at my Great Grandmother's funeral. Now since I work with seniors it's more frequent. I interviewed one lady who had a picture of her husband in his casket blown u that it covered half her room. Another senior had a painting of his wife in her casket. I kept wondering who in the hell would take on a painting assignment like that?

Convicted Church Bomber Dies in Prison
 

Convicted Church Bomber Dies in Prison

Associated Press


MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of killing four black girls in a racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, died Thursday in prison. He was 74.

Cherry died at about 3:30 p.m. in the hospital unit at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Cherry was convicted in May 2002 in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a gathering place for civil rights demonstators in Birmingham, and was sentenced to life in prison. It was the deadliest act of the civil rights era.

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My family is from a small town in Louisiana. When my uncle died, it was in the local Black paper for about two weeks. WHY DID THE TACKY EDITOR take a picture of my dad and his siblings viewing my uncle's body at the wake and make it the centerpiece of her story. It was so tasteless. WHY???? People mourning the lost of their little brother is not meant for public consumption. I can't stand her!

this is why GC is so interesting; learning about different cultural expressions. I hate funerals anyway but go because they are for the living (respect, comfort for the family), not the deceased.

I always tell my boys "if you go out and get hit by a bus, I'd rather my last earthly image of you be from the last time we kicked it, not laid out in a coffin." But as I said, funerals are for the living, not the deceased.

looks like he won't be r.i.p. anytime soon...
 

according to supa cindy...