Originally posted by Arpe So the Mum and Dad ask me to take photos at their daughter's funeral and I should say no? I felt like helping them at the time strangely enough.
Grief is a deeply personal issue and as somebody else said - varies between cultures. I can only speak for myself. I hope I would have told them that photographing a funeral feels like i'm violating someone's privacy, but that i would try to find someone else to do it for them, if they insisted. (without time to think about it, i probably would have taken the pics like you did
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After the camera was invented, apparently the most requested service was to take pictures of dead relatives that were posed in some way. Thankfully, we don't do that anymore, as far as i know.