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).

please check out these awesome folks online:

Madame Perry, and Madame Perry's Salon at:

https://www.facebook.com/madameperryssalon

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Tracy Chan, an awesome Blogger, Cosplayer and photographer at

https://www.facebook.com/chant808

https://www.nightfoxphoto.com/

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Beverly Stuart. an amazing Cosplayer, Crafter and Photographer 

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

https://www.facebook.com/beverly.stuart.9

 

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