Is it disrespect to take a picture of someone in a coffin & put it in myspace?

Question

Is it disrespect to take a picture of someone in a coffin?? well my friend, has a pic of her friend that passed away.. he is in a coffin, & in the caption she has "rest in peace" and a guy told her that what she was doing what disrespectful to put a pic of him in a coffin?? is this true? is this really disrespectful or is it okay?

Answer 1

While I understand your friend is trying to do something in tribute, a picture of the friend in the coffin probably isn't the best way to do it.  

A funeral, and all the ceremonies that go on around it, is about bringing closure to someone's life.  It's not for the dead.  It's for the living.  It's a chance to celebrate the person's life, realize the finality of the situation, acknowledge, grieve and, most importantly, begin the process of moving on.  When the funeral ends, there's supposed to be a feeling of relief and a sense as though we, the living, are moving on as best we can without the one we miss.  

I would suggest your friend switch the picture to one of the friend when he was alive.  The picture alive reminds us all how great it was when the friend was living.  The picture in the coffin reminds us all how painful it was when the friend died, and how difficult the grieving process is for all of us when we lose someone we care about.  

Is it disrespectful?  A little, because it kind of brings everyone down.  And yeah, think about it yourself -- when you're gone, would you rather have your friends remember what you were like when you were alive or what you looked like afterward?  I think it's the former.  

My two cents.  

Answer 2

I feel that it is disrespectful.

I would never take a picture of someone in a coffin, for one.

That is disrespectful in its own.

& I wouldnt want to remember them likee that.

I have a friend that put a pic of her grandpa and I hatee it.

Answer 3

It's in bad taste. This is not something for the public to see, comment on, etc. It's also ghoulish. She should put a picture of the person when he was alive on there.

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

idk if it would be disrespectful but maybe she could put a normal pic of him?

Answer 6

I would consider it disrespectful of kinda sick. I wouldn't want to see a person in a coffin while browsing my friends myspace. It could be offensive too. I'd tell her to take it down.

Answer 7

Well I do not know about the rules and customs, but I feel that if its a pic of a person in coffin, then it is disrespectful, but if its some old group pic, then its ok I guess

Answer 8

Uh Yeah, definitely disrespectful.