SciShow Psych: Why Death Photography Is So Helpful for Grief

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Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Please Note: This episode contains post-mortem photographs: those of people taken after their death. If you would prefer not to see those images, please feel welcome to look away from the screen at 0:17 to 0:27 and listen along. Grief is a universal human experience. In the 1800s families around the world took pictures of their loved one’s bodies to cope with their loss, and today, researchers have found evidence that this unique method really does help people through the grieving process. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2148022/?page=3 https://books.google.com/books?id=hca5H_rJZnUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=invention+of+photography&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihoaTYv6LnAhWJKM0KHc3RDr8Q6AEwCHoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=invention%20of%20photography&f=false http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/daguerreotype/history.html https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/02/what-did-george-washington-really-look https://www.britannica.com/technology/daguerreotype https://www.loc.gov/collections/daguerreotypes/articles-and-essays/the-daguerreotype-medium/ https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pWLxBwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA235&dq=cost+of+victorian+miniatures&ots=xKZavGyxqX&sig=DH9pWy-6RzWqpH1tpwRPaLlQK9k#v=snippet&q=miniatures&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=PhOgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=By+1850,+the+cost+of+a+daguerreotype+was+only+twenty-five+cents,&source=bl&ots=JVEE8j-kfD&sig=ACfU3U2KX_6Z3UyFd3RwIu00T5i2lBfs_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2ps3yz6LnAhXSUs0KHeAFCZwQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=snippet&q=portrait&f=false http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages2.html https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/105413730601400303 http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/death/n55.xml https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08322473.2004.11432263 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24524585 https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2013-04/remembrance-photographys-role-grieving https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2333794X19854941 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/notes-self/201210/real-stages-grief https://missfoundation.org/wp-content/mediafiles/2016/06/Bereavement-photography-best-practice.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/overview_victorians_01.shtml https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11617368 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/overview_victorians_01.shtml https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/IL1.1.c https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17470598 https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/03/19/grieving-parents-find-solace-in-remembrance-photography-with-photo-gallery/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01405110050198618 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6358686_Hospital_Care_for_Parents_After_Perinatal_Death Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bernhard_Cathrinus_Pauss,_post_portem-portrett,_november_1907.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/hands-elderly-older-woman-tears-watching-photo-album-hsryj4ldiqyg0krl https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/old-paper-gm1173269348-325806000 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happy-family-on-vacation-in-mountain-1952-dolomites-alps-gm1094334588-293700088 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/glencoe-scotland-gm958518084-261731277 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/young-mother-photographs-children-on-a-film-camera-the-family-spends-time-together-on-the-seashore-s0zzhqscbk2hqpe2t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Susse_Fr%C3%A9re_Daguerreotype_camera_1839.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_by_Nicholas_Shepherd,_1846-crop.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype#/media/File:Louis_Daguerre_2.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-film-texture-background-gm1152194399-312507308 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/natural-wood-texture-gm1145602814-308400615 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/old-photo-gm171576611-21886650


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