Do you think the best obituary pictures are the most current photos, or a great picture of the deceased in their prime?

I’ll choose the best picture from the past. After all a dying person doesn’t look good on the camera right?

Can we have Option #3: No photo at all? My elderly mother liked to read the obits, and when her eyesight failed, I read them to her. The ones without photos allowed me to recall the deceased people I knew as I remembered them. That was worth more than a final photograph, be it recent or one from earlier years.

I like ones that are not from their prime, and not from when they have become decrepit. A somewhat recent one where they are still active, smiling, and enjoying life.

If I were to drop this week, I would want the one from when was hiking last Monday in Utah. I was a mess but I am smiling and happy.

I would like a more recent photo already taken in the center where I looked healthy. Then pictures like a collage surrounding it.
1 Picture of me and my husband the weekend we had our first official date.
2 One of my favorite pictures with my son as an infant
3 One of my favorite with my daughter as an infant
4. One with my dad and mom when little
5 One with my siblings when little

This way people can remember and celebrate my life. All the different parts of it and it shows those I held dearest to my heart. It would be my way of saying thanks for a great life.

Geeze. I guess I better get started on it just in case its sooner than later. LOL

This question really made me think but after my gears wound down, I think that I’d still want what everyone else has already said. A semi-recent picture in which I’m happy and doing something that made me that way.

When my Father passed away I used a picture of him as a child for his obit. I worked in a picture of him in middle age later in the program

Oh,I missed where you said obituary I thought you were asking about a picture at the funeral home during services if the casket isn’t open.
Come to think of it. I think I will choose the last photo I could see clearly. LOL

I’d like 4, a childhood picture, a young adult picture, a prime picture and then a more recent one.
A short little timeline. Child, young, middle, old and dead now. lol

I’d like @Coloma‘s idea. But, if you could only have one I’d say go for the prime. It’s poingent. pongent porgent fuck it

poignant
Thank you Easter Bunny Spellcheck!

I was so far off all spell check could come up with was “peanut.”

^^^ LOL, I never use spell check, if I screw up a word now and then oh well.

@ibstubro Did you really mean to imply that I don’t know of spell check or how to use it? Just curious.

No. I find that different systems use different spell checks and I believe I typed in the same spelling you did first, and mine corrected it, @Dutchess_III.

Nope, poingent = endpoint. In any case, I misspelled it, too, but was close enough to correct.

All spell checks are the same, pretty sure. Individual dictionaries will differ but the basic spell check is the same.

No so @Dutchess_III. Poingent got you ‘peanut’ and me endpoint. Different browsers appear to use different spell-checks, and they are all customizable. They also vary as to what fields can be checked.

My god. It’s poignant, people!
Semi-recent and happy.

Pregnant? Who’s pregnant?

Actually, it was endpoint @ibstubro. I just threw “peanut” out there because it was more interesting than “endpoint.” Poetic license and all that.

Pongo, people!!

That brought a tear to my eye, @fluthernutter!

Yes, it was warm enough here to go barefoot, @majorrich. I’ve seen 2 snakes in two days, however.

What are Pogo People, @Dutchess_III?

IDK, @ibstubro.

I’d like to see pictures of the deceased ones in their prime. If they die old I want to see one of them in their prime, and next to it their picture at the old age that they died.

So many old people were very attractive people when they were young.