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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Methodists and several branches of Lutherans do this too.
I have a lot of Protestant friends. 
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Oh yeah - it's not the open casket itself that I'm objecting to, I've been going to viewings since I was 5 and they don't fase me a bit. It's just that a photo of someone dead in their casket kind of gives me the creeps for whatever reason.
IowaStatePhiPsi is right though - in the Victorian era, taking pics was very common and that was sometimes the ONLY photo people ever had of a loved one since photography was quite a bit more expensive then. I guess I would have been a very bad Victorian.
