Wild Wild West Con 13 Panel The Grim Reaper: Funeral and Mourning Customs in the 19th Century

The Grim Reaper: Funeral and Mourning Customs in the 19th Century
Recorded live on 3/20/2025 5:30pm in Ballroom E

Our spectacular hosts are Madame Perry, Tracy Chan, and Beverly Stuart.

Our panel will take a deep dive into all the things
you ever wanted to know about death in Victorian
times but were afraid to ask! Death was considered
an ordinary part of life back in the day. Most people
died at home and were buried fairly quickly and
close by. Preserving the body became popular during
the Civil War with the development of embalming.
Mourning customs were very specific – what you
could wear, and for how long, and for whom (parents,
spouses, children all had different mourning periods). Photographing the departed was also commonly
done. And then there were the fake mediums, charlatans who proclaimed they could summon the dead
by staging seances (and ripping off grieving people).

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Madame Perry, and Madame Perry's Salon at:

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Tracy Chan, an awesome Blogger, Cosplayer and photographer at

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https://www.nightfoxphoto.com/

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Beverly Stuart. an amazing Cosplayer, Crafter and Photographer 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/branabev/

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