Yeah that title is a complete lie, the article has absolutely nothing to do with iphones.
It’s also a dumb article. People are taking pictures of their dead loved ones and posting it to Facebook. This is... news?
It’s also a dumb article. People are taking pictures of their dead loved ones and posting it to Facebook. This is... news?
Just the other week I saw someone who had posted a candid photo of him and his dying girlfriend at the hospital on Reddit. He was ridiculed and the thread was deleted, but not before someone had screenshotted it and posted it on Twitter to mock. Seeing death in public is still an uncommon thing.
Often these photos would be taken as a group family picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
> Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when "death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life."[3] As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that "many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters. The long exposure time made deceased subjects easy to photograph.'
> In the Victorian era it was not uncommon to photograph deceased young children or newborns in the arms of their mother. The inclusion of the mother, it has been argued, encourages one to see through the mother's eyes
I will concede that the title should be changed for HN's guidelines.