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The Grave Muse
@thegravemuse.bsky.social
Haunted by the beauty of decay. Taphophile, cemetery wanderer, and occasional grave robber of forgotten stories.

Blog: http://thegravemuse.wixsite.com/my-site
When a cat decided to take me to CS Lewis's final resting place
January 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Hmmmmm...
January 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
These images serve as memento moris, a reminder of the brevity of life and the importance of living a meaningful existence. It highlights the contrast between the ephemeral beauty of youth and the enduring reality of death. #mementomoriday
From the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
January 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#mementomoriday
… in doubtful cases of death.

My latest blog post about the fear of Premature Burial and the invention of ‘The Life Saving Coffin’

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January 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’m too sick to go out at the moment and take some photos so I’m going through my archives. Here are some from West Norwood Cemetery- one of London’s Magnificent Seven.
January 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I’ve had a look through my book from The Thanatos Archive and some other online resources- but can’t find anything similar. There’s obviously a hand holding her on the right but if it was post-mortem she wouldn’t be holding the basket I presume?
January 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I found myself on a side-quest today looking through some of my ephemera.
I looked at this photograph from my piles of Victorian photographs and I can’t work out if it’s a post-mortem photograph. What do you think?
January 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
First post finally up on my new blog. I’ll get the swing of this soon until then here’s a photo l surreptitiously took in Cementerio General de Valencia
Link to my blog is in my bio.
December 30, 2024 at 2:24 PM