ronandannette
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- May 4, 2006
In my experience, the funeral director would (and should) ask the family what they want done with anything that had been deposited in the casket and it's certainly fair to have everything (or just some things) removed at their preference. I could never go so far as to agree that people leaving small tokens meaningful to them (and presumably the deceased) are doing anything wrong.To be fair for some there is a deeper meaning of the things that are left in the casket of their loved one. While I know that the body is a corpse, that is not how I look at them when they are buried or when I go to visit their grave either. So for me, that piece of scrap paper in there does matter.
Obviously others are free to feel the way they do, I just think in the end, it is the family's feelings and reasoning on the matter that are the right ones in this kind of situation, not the stranger's.
Marketing 101 - find a need and fill it!i had a coworker whose dh was a professional photographer as his side job. the practice you speak of is still VERY common with certain cultures some of which had large communities in the area of northern california we lived/worked. initially the majority of his jobs were weddings and kid's sport teams but once word got out in the community that he was willing to do death/funeral photos he couldn't keep up with the demand.