Many people used to pose the recently deceased and take photographs of them as keepsakes. I’ve seen pictured of multiple dead posed together, and one particularly creepy picture of a live little sister posing with her dead older sister. I bet the memory of that stayed with her!
I remember always seeing photos on my Grandmother’s dining room sideboard of one of her dead friend in a casket. She would leave it there a couple weeks and eventually a new one would show up.
Previous gens perceived death very differently than we do. Very