Memento Mori

At first I thought Memento Mori only applied to artworks. During the Baroque times, there were a lot of paintings about death and how many of the things we hold dear now don't follow us to our graves. After seeing a lot of the photography photos, I'm on a whole new level of creeped out. Aside from the child being dead, there's a very short window for them to take the photo as rigor mortis sets in, the blood accumulates at the bottom, etc. And the smell! Dead people fascinate me, but I would never take a photo next to one.