Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

I’m curious if you’ll instruct your survivors to display LF photos at your funeral service or wake? The average age around here is 49 years, so this must have crossed your mind at least once.

Some people request songs be played – it would seem natural that people here would ask that certain prints be displayed. :)

If so, would they be your prints – or if images taken by others, which ones and why?

What would you want the image(s) to communicate?

How & where would you display them? Landscapes? Portraits?

Finally, anyone taking a print (or two) “with them”?

No. I'm going to be burnt and my ashes tossed to the wind. No funeral. :)

I'm doing the same as Old-N-Feeble, but at any kind of memorial service that might be held, I'll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.

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Originally Posted by michael slade

I'm doing the same as Old-N-Feeble, but at any kind of memorial service that might be held, I'll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.

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Are you going to sign them before you go?

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Originally Posted by michael slade

<snip>I'll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.

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Originally Posted by Vaughn

Are you going to sign them before you go?

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Only in carbon ink...

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Originally Posted by michael slade

…I’ll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.

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That’s a great idea to soothe everyone’s sense of loss.

I’ve always considered displaying a favorite classic landscape from the deepest American Romanticist oil-on-canvas tradition – say Frederick Edwin Church or Thomas Cole. It would be a natural scene whose separate elements interact to communicate a grand, dynamic energy. A number of images by AA would capture that sort of spirit in a silver print. I might even be able to afford an original to show in that case.

This would also be my guiding principle when choosing a silver print of my own – either to display at the service, or make available for people to take home, like Michael.

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Originally Posted by Vaughn

Are you going to sign them before you go?

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Yes, I’d sign my prints in advance to make them personal, as well as universal.

The prints would remind people, I hope, that I’m still around in a special sense.

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Originally Posted by Heroique

That’s a great idea to soothe everyone’s sense of loss.

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I like the idea of everyone's loss needing to be soothed upon my passing, but honestly I'm sure my wife would like to get the crap out of the house. If people's loss is soothed, well, all the better. There will be a few people dancing on my wind-strewn ashes I am sure (if they could find them...I'm being strewn in an awfully remote area...).

Why?

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Originally Posted by John Kasaian

Why?

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Is this a profound cry to the heavens about death, or a simple question for Michael about choosing a remote place for his ashes? ;^)

The 'why' and 'where' of my ashes being strewn in a remote location is so that those who attend the 'strewing occasion' will finally be compelled to go to the places I found myselb being drawn towards to both seek my own solitude and also create my photography. Usually no one knows what it's like where I go shoot...this would be a way for them to experience it at least once.