Post Mortem Tintype Photograph of Abraham Lincoln??

[Jim Garrett]

What a great article Eva found. Eva has been a great addition to the symposium. Some of those people in the article posted by Eva are some of the best looking dead people I've ever seen. I always felt I could spot a corpse in a picture, but that fireman really has it over on me.

Post mortems are still being done. Some hospitals will take an unsolicited picture of a still-born child and offer it to the parents. It is a very caring and thoughtful gesture. It is something that greif stricken parents wouldn't ask for or think about, but it is the only tangible remembrance they will have of their lost loved one .