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 [e-mail] [e-mail] https://x.com/madameperry Tracy Chan, an awesome Blogger, Cosplayer and photographer at https://www.facebook.com/chant808 https://www.nightfoxphoto.com/ https://x.com/chant808 Beverly Stuart. an amazing Cosplayer, Crafter and Photographer https://www.flickr.com/photos/branabev/ https://www.facebook.com/beverly.stuart.9 Thank you Wild Wild West Con Guests, Staff, Volunteers and Panelists for an amazing Con and weekend full of new and old friends and Con family! We love you guys! For more on WWWC please check out: https://www.wildwestcon.com/ The Wild Wild West Con Community Facebook page is here: / 273200786672134 The WWWC Facebook page: / wildwildwestcon / 473015638010102 Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games! Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: / creativeplayandpodcast Also follow us on Facebook at / creativeplayandpodcastnetwork Would you be interested if we hosted D&D and Edge of Empire games on Roll20 for you to join? Email us at [e-mail] See our Wild Wild West Con Photo album at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1216868807115130&type=3 If you're looking for the videos check out our Wwwc YouTube Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsWPaNcS-w6bR3e3DFdEbauFpOb8Wcj1W&si=VBUXTaU6w9NCmgGI