As both a photographer and someone who works in the funeral industry, I have always held a fascination with the theatricality and visual aesthetic of Victorian mourning practices. Death in the Victorian era was not hidden away or sanitised; it was ritualised, romanticised, and woven visibly into everyday life.
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Now, as our usual readers know, I am Gothic Bite Magazine‘s Death Expert, which means I write articles about death and whatnot. However, it has come to my attention that the media: television, movies, books, among other platforms, love to make anything related to death, evil.
And, as a Death Positivity Advocate, this irritates me. These platforms and services are why people in this part of the world, i.e., Western society, have death anxiety.
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