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This article led me to type “Thanatos Archive” into Google Image Search… And that wasn’t the best idea just before going to bed. As a parent these images of chi
by pavlov 4y ago
This article led me to type “Thanatos Archive” into Google Image Search… And that wasn’t the best idea just before going to bed. As a parent these images of children are haunting and disturbing.
I also understand they were taken because the 19th century parents simply had no other photos by which to remember the lost children. I’m just not sure we should be looking at them.
- secondcoming 4y agoDeath is a part of life. When I was young my parents would bring me to removals (where the body is put on display) so I would begin to understand death. Death is not something people should be protected from.
- pixxel 4y agoWe’ve become so removed from it in the West. We make phone calls instead to employ the services of strangers to deal with it. It doesn’t seem right, or healthy. IDK.