This was a civilian practice as well. I'm curious as to the impetus to
discontinue the practice.
On 5/1/14, 5:32 PM, Jan Faul wrote:
‘Back in the day’ when this was done, corpses were treated
differently. After the Civil Wr, free-lancers were paid to run around
the battlefields and collect the dead to be shot (so to speak) and
reinterred - all for a dollar.
On May 1, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Randy Little wrote:
Wasnt this standard practice in the 1850-1900s(later) in the US and
Europe?
On May 1, 2014 10:08 AM, "John Palcewski" <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:palcewski@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Photographer in India earns living taking pictures of the dead
minutes before they’re cremated
"Shankar Jha earns about $500 a month capturing photos of
recently deceased for grieving families in Varanasi, in northern
India. ‘Initially I felt awkward doing this job but now I've got
used to it it doesn't feel bad anymore.’ "
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