Professional photographer at a funeral

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I just recently heard that someone hired a professional photographer for their husbands funeral (30yr old - sudden/unexpected) large turnout.
I'm not judging their decision, I have just never ever heard of this. Would you consider this? Is this what people do now? Is it a trend? Personally I don't think I would, just wondering what others think about it.

Posting the photos on social media with no filter or worning maybe a bit much, but none of us have any right to tell another person how to grieve. Those photos may bring comfort to the grieving. To each their own.

I walked by a funeral where the chief mourners were taking selfies with the coffin outside the church.

I found it a little disturbing. So a photographer is another level to that.

Uncomfortable really. Watching mourners putting up with cameras shoved in their faces was not nice. I don’t like to draw attention to myself whereas DSis absolutely loves to be the centre of it and a lot of her ‘grief’ felt performative and for the benefit of the film crew.

I posted on here in Style & Beauty before the funeral in a panic because family members all had to wear a specific colour of clothing (not black) and I couldn’t find anything suitable for myself and DC. A kind group of Mnetters helped me track down everything I needed. But Dsis then made us wear garish matching accessories so that “it looks good for the cameras”🙄

It's usual in some cultures. My parents are from a Nordic country that routinely takes funeral photographs. They are generally of the coffin being carried, wreaths being laid, speeches at the wake, maybe groups at the wake. Not any of distressed mourners - but it's not a country that is prone to open displays of emotion anyway.