so there's this company that takes pictures of dead babies...

[Ally_Kat]

Yeah, what the title says.

http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/index.cfm

Um...yeah. Some of the pictures you can't even tell. They look like normal baby pictures. But others...others I want to know why they would dress them up and do such a picture because they sitll look like those alien-beings.

I dunno, I guess this is one of those things I'll figure out if/when I have kids.

[LoungeMachine]

I will not under any circumstance click on that link, ever....

But I had to click on the thread out of curiosity.


And I'm happy to never know how you stumbled upon this, Ally...

[Ally_Kat]

You know those pictures of Angelina and Brad with their kid and other such celebrity baby pictures we see in magazines? They're like that.

And it was emailed to me.

[LoungeMachine]

Reminds me of the movie "The Others"


I can't imagine losing a child, let a lone an infant.....

But pictures?

Never.

[rustoffa]

There's also this touring taxidermy human body deal. Just reprehensible.

Bodies' cut in half, and preserved with hairspray....someone told me the exibit here didn't have the pregnant expose.

I walked out halfway through it....there were kids there freaking out.

I don't have a problem with the macabre....just do me a favor and lay off the artsy-fartsy bait and switch.

[Coyote]

The human mind's a eerie place...

[sadaist]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
I will not under any circumstance click on that link, ever....

But I had to click on the thread out of curiosity.


And I'm happy to never know how you stumbled upon this, Ally...




Why, oh why the fuck didn't I take your path of resisting the temptation?????? I might be sick, once I finally get my lower jaw off of the floor. It was just kinda gruesome to me. Sad and morbid. made my eyes well up and my stomach turn all at once. Oh man.

[binnie]

Dude!

Seriously.....


Sick fucks out there....

[bueno bob]

I plan on stuffing my dog and sitting him next to my recliner so I can pet him and scratch his head on a regular basis after he's gone.

I didn't click the link. Too sad to even think about, let alone view...

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by sadaist
Why, oh why the fuck didn't I take your path of resisting the temptation?????? I might be sick, once I finally get my lower jaw off of the floor. It was just kinda gruesome to me. Sad and morbid. made my eyes well up and my stomach turn all at once. Oh man.

I hear you.:cool:

Same reason I never clicked on the Nick Berg video.

Even though the mind can picture certain things, once you've actually seen them, it's too hard to erase.

:(

And I thank Whomever for my 3 kids' healthy lives....

[bueno bob]

I sometimes thank Jesterstar for not being banned, when it's late at night and I'm all alone.

[binnie]

Who is Jesterstar?

Crops up a lot in posts but never seems to be online....

[The_KiD]

This is Disturbing on so many levels...

KiD

[binnie]

It's weird, if they were pictures of dead adults, would we be as freaked out?

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
You know those pictures of Angelina and Brad with their kid and other such celebrity baby pictures we see in magazines? They're like that.

.

Please tell me there aren't parents posing with these dead children....:confused: :(

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by binnie
It's weird, if they were pictures of dead adults, would we be as freaked out?

Not a fair comparison at all, Bin.

We don't tolerate kiddie porn for the same reason.

Children are to be sacred and protected.

Not exploited.

[binnie]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Not a fair comparison at all, Bin.

We don't tolerate kiddie porn for the same reason.

Children are to be sacred and protected.

Not exploited.

I wasn't using it as a fair comparison, sorry I didn't make my point clear.

For me, it's a shocking idea whether it's children or adults, but i am more horrified by the fact they are using kids.

why is that? If the same thing happens to an adult or a child, why are we more shocked by the latter?

Is it that people reach a certain age and they are off our love list?

I am more shocked by it, and I was trying to fathom why?

[bueno bob]

Kids are cuter than adults, if you wanna bottom-line it...

So are puppies...

[binnie]

Ok, that's a good point ...

[sadaist]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Please tell me there aren't parents posing with these dead children....:confused: :(

Oh yeah dude. There are other kids too. I saw one where the brother (maybe 4 or 5 years old) was kissing the dead babies head. Total Sears family portraits with the Mom in front holding the baby.

[binnie]

nasty...

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Please tell me there aren't parents posing with these dead children....:confused: :(

Yes, sir. It's why I used the comparison. There's a picture just like their People Mag cover on the site.

The most difficult ones for me are the ones in the incubators, I believe they are called. I'm probably wrong on that, though. I could never have a picture of my kid -- alive or dead -- like that. It's like someone taking taking polaroids of Uncle Louie's time in ICU.

[Flash Bastard]

Originally posted by rustoffa
There's also this touring taxidermy human body deal. Just reprehensible.

Bodies' cut in half, and preserved with hairspray....someone told me the exibit here didn't have the pregnant expose.

I walked out halfway through it....there were kids there freaking out.

I don't have a problem with the macabre....just do me a favor and lay off the artsy-fartsy bait and switch.

Yeah, the same thing rolled through Denver earlier this year.

All I could think about when staring at this dead dude kicking a soccer ball was.... going home and scratching the DONOR sticker off the back of my driver's license.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
Yes, sir. It's why I used the comparison. There's a picture just like their People Mag cover on the site.

The most difficult ones for me are the ones in the incubators, I believe they are called. I'm probably wrong on that, though. I could never have a picture of my kid -- alive or dead -- like that. It's like someone taking taking polaroids of Uncle Louie's time in ICU.


Dear God.:(

To Each His Own, I guess.......


Who am I to judge??.......but Jesus :confused: :confused: :confused:


I'm sorry for this, but.........maybe some people, ahem,..........





nevermind.



:(



Excuse me while I go hug my kids again..........they already know daddy is weird.;)

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by binnie
I wasn't using it as a fair comparison, sorry I didn't make my point clear.




I know, bin........:cool:


Little has shocked, creeped, or surprised me over the years net-wise.......


but this........***shudder****

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine


Excuse me while I go hug my kids again..........they already know daddy is weird.;)

They'll probably think you are hitting them up for Father's Day attention.

Of which, have a happy. Older kids or are they still youngin's? Gotta love the little ones.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat



The most difficult ones for me are the ones in the incubators, I believe they are called. .


Okay.....

Taking a deep breath and playing Devil's Advocate for a sec....


Taking a Polaroid of your dead newborn as a VERY PRIVATE keepsake is one thing.......


But the GIANT LEAP to web status and email chain is a whole 'nother matter:(



Am I alone here?


And this being Father's Day and all.........:cool:

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine


Taking a Polaroid of your dead newborn as a VERY PRIVATE keepsake is one thing.......


But the GIANT LEAP to web status and email chain is a whole 'nother matter:(


Not to mention buying and dressing them up like it's their baptism.

How do they even get composed enough to pose for the pictures?! If I just sat thru labor and lost my kid, it would take a while and lots of happy drugs before I was sane enough to deal with life, let alone pose all lovingly like a Christmas card photo with some guy telling me to say "pickles."

But maybe that's just me.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
They'll probably think you are hitting them up for Father's Day attention.

Of which, have a happy. Older kids or are they still youngin's? Gotta love the little ones.

Thanks, Ally....

If you ask them, every day is "Father's Day"

LMAO

10 + 12 Daddy's girls, and a budding Lounge Jr. in my spitting image;)

Everything else in life takes a back seat to parenthood.

As it should....


God Bless The Children.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat




But maybe that's just me.

No, it's not just you.:cool:


Death has some strange rituals in different cultures, but this has got to be a new one.....


Only in America [?]

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Thanks, Ally....

If you ask them, every day is "Father's Day"

LMAO

10 + 12 Daddy's girls, and a budding Lounge Jr. in my spitting image;)

Everything else in life takes a back seat to parenthood.

As it should....


God Bless The Children.

AWH! I remember what it was like to be Daddy's little girl. Oh man, at graduation he was all about talking to the head of my department prediciting my future. He was always all about my writing. But this is probably more geared for the Father's Day thread. lol

But watch that boy -- he'll grow up to be a hellraiser alright ;)

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
No, it's not just you.:cool:


Death has some strange rituals in different cultures, but this has got to be a new one.....


Only in America [?]

I don't know if it was just here or if it was custom in England, too, but I know in family portrait paintings they used to represent stillborns, infant and other child deaths with a skulls of each child lost -- usually somewhere in the background.

[LoungeMachine]

Skulls?

sheeesh....


Like I said, the movie "The Others" had a plotline around the 19th century tradition of photographing dead family members.


You're on Candid Camera!

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
AWH! I remember what it was like to be Daddy's little girl.


There is no greater rush.

And I have it in stereo:D


Alright.......who wants a pony?

[Ally_Kat]

PONY! Oh man, I would beg and plead and try to reason with how he liked to watch the ponies on tv at home and at that smelly place with all the old guys and the bank teller windows, and how instead he would just go outside and save himself some of the hassle. This was, of course, before I realized that liquor, money, and ponies were a good way to spend the time.

It was really cute though trying to pronounce OTB with my brother. We would come home from weekend shopping with Ma -- "Mommy, Daddy's watching the ponies again. Can I go with him to the ohtib?"
"I wanna go with Daddy to the awhteeb! Pretty please?"
"My pony is sooo going to win cuz he's the prettiest!"
"Nawh-huh. My pony will beat up your pony!"

We were such adorable dumbasses when we were younger.

[binnie]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Okay.....

Taking a deep breath and playing Devil's Advocate for a sec....


Taking a Polaroid of your dead newborn as a VERY PRIVATE keepsake is one thing.......


But the GIANT LEAP to web status and email chain is a whole 'nother matter:(



Am I alone here?


And this being Father's Day and all.........:cool:


No, I think you're right...

[Susie Q]

I think this site is used for people who don't know how to deal with finality. Different people deal with death in different ways. But when it comes to children, the parents are so lost and lifeless that they need to be comforted by any means possible. It's a site like this that lingers around like a pedaphile in a playground to get the next victim.

I could NOT conceive of why there would be a 'service' to something like this.

I think if I were a parent of a newborn who passed, I wouldn't want the reminder of it on film. I would have all the memories tucked deep inside and live in my own hurt.