Post #55924 by Atomic Cocktail on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 11:06 AM

On 2003-10-19 17:45, hanford_lemoore wrote:
Here's a link: They sculpt life-size, medically-accurate dolls of miscarried, aborted, and otherwise dead babies for parents.

http://www.godslittleones.com

It is intended as a memorial. I know a lot of people find this creepy, but not everyone does. Please be considerate of others if posta reply to this.

I think what creeps folks out is that dolls are usually considered children's toys. However, memorial images of the deceased are not without precedents. In photography's early years post mortem shots of loved ones (especially children) were common.

WARNING, these sites contain 19th century photographs of dead people. Most are funerary shots but a few are of battlefield dead (Nothing too graphic-they are from the 19th century after all.) If your very squeamish please don't look!:

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/fdw/volume3/werner/gallery5.html

MEMENTO MORI:
http://cmp1.ucr.edu/terminals/memento_mori/

[ Edited by: Atomic Cocktail on 2003-10-20 13:50 ]