NOT a Postmortem Photograph

"You will never see a dead person simply standing, all by themselves, in the middle of a room supported by a stand. If there is a visible stand base in the photo, it’s guaranteed that they were alive" - Jack Mord, owner of the Thanatos Archive, one of the most extensive archives of post mortem images in the world
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two women sitting next to each other on top of a hill near the water and trees
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Two Women Under a Tree, by Alice M. Boughton, 1910. The woman on the left is not dead, propped up by her sister on the right - it's another postmortem Pinterfiction. Consider the logistics if nothing else. This is not a studio portrait. We are to believe that in the window of time that a corpse may have been supple enough to look lifelike when sitting up, the family could have brought out a well known society photographer, then moved the body to this remote & picturesque site for photography?
an old photo of a little boy in a dress
CDV Pair Victorian Little Boy Huge Smock Standing Portrait | Etsy
an old photo of a man and woman posing for the camera with fur coats on
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Not a postmortem photograph, for goodness sake. We are to believe that this fellow wrestled his girlfriend/wife into a photobooth after death? She's looking pretty good for a pre-embalmed lady, if that's the case. Not so plausible that the funeral home would have let her out for a last visit, postmortem, to the photo booth. Just another Pinterfiction that's completely unsupported at the original link.
an old photo of a woman sitting on a couch reading a book with her legs crossed
My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning
The information on this photo says: "Miss Grace (1898); Clarence H. White - photographer." I see no info that supports her being dead and there is no way a corpse could hold a heavy book like that. I believe she was just reading and was alive.
NOT a postmortem. Click on the photo and you'll find this lovely group portrait featured in an article which assists in identifying falsely attributed post mittens
NOT a postmortem. Click on the photo and you'll find this lovely group portrait featured in an article which assists in identifying falsely attributed post mittens
an old photo of a man sitting on the moon
Antique Pet Photos - 8" x 10" Moon Bear Print
Antique Pet Photos - 8" x 1...
an old black and white photo of three people sitting on a chair with a child
Charles Paxson | Learning is Wealth—Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
DEFINITELY NOT a post-mortem. These three children were very famous anti slavery campaigning 'half-caste' children who were taken on speaking tours and reproduced widely in photographs. The image itself links back to the Metropolitan Museum of Photography with the citation, so this is an instance of a self-appointed Pinterest 'expert' adding the assertion that all but the man on the right are dead and it spreading through Pinterest as truth.
an old photo of two people walking in the same direction as they are reflected in some shiny balls
Gazing Ball
an old photo of a woman with a cat in her lap