Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip

I don't know if this is exactly in the vein we're looking for, but I'm trying to think a little out of the box on death.

I'm going to rent the film and see if there's anything that might be useful, but here are some photos from the book of the same title. It's based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the town of Black River Falls, and local news reports from the same period. It includes accounts of all kinds of crazy events (barn burnings, attacks by gangs of armed tramps, threatening and obscene letters, madness, witchcraft etc) but also death by diphtheria and smallpox (lots of funerals). You can view more photos of the same period by Van Schaick on the Wisconsin Historical Society website.