In the early 1900s, it wasn't uncommon to read a local newspaper's obituary section and find detailed information regarding an individual's death, including instances where suicide occurred. This was indicative of the community's role in death, before societal norms shifted the experience of death to be much more personal and private. In 1940, there is rarely seen photographs of the deceased, their casket, or grave stone with some documentation of the funeral and wake. By 1960, there is almost no record of community-based professional post-mortem photography in Nordic society with some amateur photographs remaining for the purpose of the family of the deceased.