Funeral Photography

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Since photographing funerals seems to be on the increase in the UK, a friend came up with the idea of having coffin lids made of sturdy glass, allowing the deceased to be easily photographed.
As a carpenter, he will design the coffins and source the glass, while I will attend the service, photographing as appropriate.
Will it work as an idea?
Remains to be seen.
 
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FFS!!
 
Are there seriously people that didnt get the joke?
 
My limits are... funurals.. children dying in hospital... well anyone dying.. and yes I ahve been asked to cover funurals.... :(

to the OP ... Remains to be seen... don't worry some of us got it :)
 
Sorry chaps, but can't see any hint of a funny in there ... no matter how hard I try. It must be too subtle for me. All I can read into it is a very warped mind. Perhaps someone that 'got it' would care to enlighten me as to the funny bit.
 
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Stuart M said:
Sorry chaps, but can't see any hint of a funny in there ... no matter how hard I try. It must be too subtle for me. All I can read into it is a very warped mind. Perhaps someone that 'got it' would care to enlighten me as to the funny bit.
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me neither :thinking: - though taking a second look the "remains to be seen" seems to be the punchline - IF indeed it is a "joke". The OP hasn't said anything yet..
 
I have had my fill of photographing cadavers as a Scenes of Crime Officer (CSIs nowadays). There is no-way I would even contenplate doing this for money or for my own sanity.

Whilst it might be acceptable in some cultures to photograph in open coffins. Whilst In Kosovo as part of the British Forensic Team when repatriating the bodies, the families wanted to photograph / video decomposing corpses which was accompanied by shrieking and wailing which I found partially disturbing.

I sincerely hope it does not catch on here. It's far better to remember your loved ones as they were - alive.

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Carlh said:
me neither :thinking: - though taking a second look the "remains to be seen" seems to be the punchline - IF indeed it is a "joke". The OP hasn't said anything yet..
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Sorry Carl, Stuart and Mr Canvas. I should have foreseen that it would have went "whoosh" for some.
Perhaps I'll end it with "lol" in future.
 
RBaker said:
Sorry Carl, Stuart and Mr Canvas. I should have foreseen that it would have went "whoosh" for some.
Perhaps I'll end it with "lol" in future.
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Glad it WAS a joke lol, I couldn't do it though I know someone who did, he got very disturbed by it. Seems to be the "thing" with Jamaican funerals in the UK though
 
Now that Carlh has pointed it out ... I get it!

To the OP

Very good mate although, to be honest, that was far too subtle for the Internet. Far too easy for it to be misconstrued. I had you marked down as some sort of weirdo fetishist. ;)
 
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Stuart M said:
Now that Carlh has pointed it out ... I get it!

To the OP

Very good mate although, to be honest, that's far too subtle for the Internet. Far too easy for it to be misconstrued. I had you marked down as some sort of weirdo fetishist. ;)
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Stuart, I've been called worse things than a weirdo fetishist. Why, that would almost be a compliment.
Did I ever tell you about this OTHER business idea I have?
................maybe I'd better not.
 
I got it... straight away. It was entertaining to watch those of you who didn't get the joke and the reaction. :)
 
Thinking about it, the actual concept is nothing new, as Digisatman showed earlier. There's that famous photograph of the McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton just after the gunfight at the OK corral and to be fair to the photographer that took it, he was probably just reporting it as news.

McLaurys & Clanton.jpg
 
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Got the joke and found it funny. :eek:

I've photographed 2 funerals, both military, and I have also received a phone call in the wee small hours from a friend asking would I please come to the hospital to photograph their son, who had just been stillborn. I went. Now that was a tough one.
 
viv1969 said:
Got the joke and found it funny. :eek:

I've photographed 2 funerals, both military, and I have also received a phone call in the wee small hours from a friend asking would I please come to the hospital to photograph their son, who had just been stillborn. I went. Now that was a tough one.
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You gave them what they wanted. Well done.
 
I used to photograph funerals but decided to give it up as it was a dead end job
 
Keith W said:
I used to photograph funerals but decided to give it up as it was a dead end job
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yeah I found that getting payment was quite difficult so I decided that as a business it was a dead loss
 
Because I was out in all weathers, and the smoke/ashes from cremations, I was coffin all the time
 
its just not a sustainable undertaking
 
the business plan was way off corpse
 
im at a dead loss on this can some one fill me in
 
With weddings, there's a pretty good chance of repeat business from the guests of honour. For funerals, that's less likely! (Now THERE'S a sales opportunity - offer a 10% discount to B&Gs for their next weddings!!!)
 
Not more bloody puns, I thought they'd died a death in the other thread.
 
an undertaker asked me to shoot some coffin details for him , I said I'm sorry but I don't think I can handle that without gilt
 
sorry that was awful :coat:
 
Having been to every type of conceivable death (to photograph and investigate it) over a twenty year period, I've pretty much heard every joke going. In my former world black humour was a coping mechanism. However, there was a time and place for it and that was in the privacy of a safe environment and never in the public eye. Professionalism first always without exception.
 
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