Creepy Crawlies

And everything is gone, the body is gone

completely under, gone, entirely gone.

the upper darkness is heavy as the lower,

between them the little ship

is gone.

It is the end, it is oblivion.

Images copyright Boo Saville

Pre Mortem Girls

These types of images are called premortem. These photos depict people who are terminally ill. Many
diseases, such as scarlet fever and consumption, wiped out whole communities during the 1840's and 1850's. Even a simple flu could be deadly. This would ensure a portrait despite the knowledge of their imminent demise

Deathbed Portraits

1. Camille Monet on Her Death Bed by Claude Monet 

2. Portrait of Alexander Pushkin on his deathbed, 1837 by Alexander Alexeyevich Koslov

3. Chopin on his death bed

4. Death of Casagemas 1901 byPablo Picasso

5. Father Damien on his death bed