Originally Posted by morelcabin
I say to each his own, really. Death today is alot different than it was back then. We used to have to care for our own dead and it gave us closure in a different way. Now we unlovingly off them to a funeral home where many things can happen.
Amen. People today are afraid of death and in the old days they had to deal with it much more often and accept it. My gr-grandmother also had photos of a triple funeral in the family (3 youngsters drowned), not of the caskets but of the procession and gravestones. I gleaned a lot of genealogical info from the photos.