Pictures of human beings before and after death

Photographs taken by German photographer Walter Schels and partner Beate Lakotta before and after the human death.

There are some pictures that looks completely different from before and after death, others have pictures that just seem to be closing their eyes, it has become a magical atmosphere.

Details are as below. Edelgard Clavey. When he was young he was active actively as a member of Protestantism. Shot on December 5, 2003


Edelgard Clavey who died of cancer. Shooting taken on January 4, 2004


Maria Hai-Anh Tuyet Cao. "I accept death, death does not last forever, after having met God, I will finally return to Earth again," he said. Shot on December 5, 2003


Picture after Maria died. Shooting taken February 15, 2004


Roswitha Pacholleck says, "It is absolutely impossible to say that it is suffering only now, since I became a cancer, I continue to wish to live." Photographed on December 31, 2002


After that, Pacholleck who spent a fulfilling day while receiving dignity and temperament with hospice seems to promise to volunteer with a hospice if it survives. Shot on March 6, 2003


Rita Schoffler. I was hoping to see a divorced husband before he was sentenced for a terminal cancer before he died. When he tells me that he will die, he is said to have promised to come to see her. Shot on February 17, 2004


Mr. Schoffler says, "I had a variety of things, but I still like him and I was able to love at the last moment of my life." Shot taken on May 10, 2004


Peter Kelling. I was a healthcare worker who worked at the Health and Safety Authority for a long time, but I was diagnosed that it is intestinal cancer one day. The cancer metastasized to the lungs, the liver, and the brain, and said, "I am still 64, but I can not move like any other age of the same age." Shot on November 29, 2003


It seems that there were times when I was thinking too hard and I cried loudly in the middle of the night. Kelling continued to keep the football team's game record on the door of the room until his death. Shooting taken on 22nd December 2003


You can see pictures of others from the following link.

Life Before Death at the Wellcome Collection | Society | guardian.co.uk