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"People here still want a grave to visit. I see that as total insanity. A dead body has no worth, cremate it and spread the ashes."

Visiting a grave is, in my opinion, a way to respect and be reminded of a deceased person's influence on your life, and in the case of kin it also serves as a means of binding you closer together to your family/relatives. You don't actually need a grave for any of this, but due to psychological reasons I believe it's helpful to have something concrete and physical to 'tie' the deceased to.

The pictures are creepy because we aren't used to see dead people pretending to be alive these days, lmao. That is unnatural. I imagine the pics were taken when photography was in its early start, so taking a picture meant a big deal, people weren't used to "immortalizing" moments like we do now. Maybe they felt like part of that immortality would be transferred to the loved one... Family values were also held very highly in the victorian age, so a complete family was probably a "proper" family.

These pictures are a monument to mental illness.  That in itself is both amusing and creepy.

Why mental illness? It was a habit. Society then viewed death differently. People now all over the world view death differently. Some think the bodies are just vessels and don't care what happens to them, others want pyramids and graves.

To change the subject slightly, a family member of mine recently lost 2 of her kids quite suddenly, she went to the doc about smth different and without her even asking for it he offered her antidepressants. That really baffles me...since when did a normal and natural human emotion become a medical condition that needs treatment??

Pain after breaking a bone is natural too, but they give you pills for that. Psychological pain though has healing properties when the amount and lasting time are right. I too think people should be allowed to grieve, but the loss of loved ones can create a permanent imbalance that, when happens, should be set right back on track, with therapy and even pills.

i think rather than a disorder, grief is a natural process that happens as a function of letting us know how deeply we've been affected by our loss. often when grief is lacking, it manifests in other unconscious ways that are unhealthy and destructive, as well as static. do you see many emotions as disorders or something of the sort?

Oh god it's like a flashback to some moments in past relationships, except the crying's replaced with anger or "retribution".

I'm not saying it's mental because it's different.  But just because everyone has different ways of dealing with death, doesn't mean they're all healthy.  To quote myself for clarity:

"Judging by the way they arrange them to look alive, it's clearly about pretending.  If they only wanted to remember their appearance, they could photograph them in their coffin.  It wouldn't matter.  Denial is the first stage of grief, so I suppose it makes sense.  But grief is a volatile disorder, for the time that it lingers."

No, but I see many emotions as irrational.  Usually based on the context, though.

I would say that such unhealthy subconscious reactions are forms of grief.  Grief doesn't necessarily have to be an entirely conscious process, and I think it frequently isn't.  I'm not saying that it isn't natural, nor am I saying that there's no purpose to it.  But it can gravely impair ones ability to process the world around them and act accordingly.  Obviously there are different degrees of this, but in the more severe cases, I would absolutely say it's a temporary form of mental illness.

agreed. no further questions your honor ;)