ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses issues in connection with the third strand of project research outlined in particular the 'galleries' of postmortem photographs which can be found on internet websites. The methodology used is a feminist fractured foundationalist methodology, developed in earlier research and publications, and uses a combination of theoretical work, narrative interviews and archival documents of life research. Discussion of postmodernist ideas is helpful neither in considering these matters, being neither antithetical to ethical inquiry nor necessarily in conflict with critical humanist thinking. Through the display of photographs of them at the hour of their death, the people who are shown take on some of the taxonomic characteristics of the 'undead' because they are suspended between their once living and now dead states of being and not-being. Critical humanism for me respects the integrity of other people as basic but without seeing the self or human subject in essentialist terms, around the sharing of a common humanity.
