Morgue

Is'nt There Enough Subways And Park Walls For These So Called "Artists" To Create Without Decimating A Room That Had A Function And Lots Of Things Happen In It? It's Such A Shame That This Thing Happens It Really Is

graphiti in an abandoned building is part of what makes it abandonedness enjoyable, this is how the building is, that is part of iits beauty.

while a different jon has a point, i recall once hearing a quote that went like this:
"How a society treats its dead is indicative of how it will treat its living. When it does not matter whether or not a person is memorialized or remembered, we are not far from a society where life is cheap and someone's death is nothing."Doug Manning (This is not the excat quote i heard, but it is close enough. And yeah - i know it is cheesy but it raises a good point).
It is easy to say vandalism adds to its beauty b/c it does not have the same historic signficance as more well-known sites; nevertheless, people died at this place. I can go on and on here but it basically comes down to this, these building and the people who lived there, they deserve respect.

I would highly doubt anyone died in the morgue. For certain dead bodies were stored there. I am against graffiti myself, but by the previous post's logic we shouldn't ever discard even old ambulances.

An ex of mine bought an ageing Dodge ambulance (they're very cheap, as no-one wants them) threw in a matress and converted it into an extremely cool camper van. Complete with its original V12 engine of course :D. However it's original purpose remained obvious, and it used to seriously freak some people out. I also knew of a Goth girl who had herself a retired Daimler hearse, sprayed pink, with 'Highway to Hell' stencilled on the back, blacked out rear windows and neon crosses above the windscreen.

OK, so that's probably too much detail about my freaky friends lol! What I guess I'm trying to say I think we should respect the dead and their memory. However that doesn't mean being afraid or creeped out by death (or items associated with dead people). However I see no reason for this type of mindless vandalism, whether in a morgue or anywhere else for that matter. It's pointless and juvenile, and a complete waste of energy...

"by the previous post's logic we shouldn't ever discard even old ambulances."

Don't worry, they don't. They just sell them to the state and they give them to us to use. :-(

LMAO !!!

For me it doesn't even matter if someone died there or not. What is important (to me) is that you don't ruin something that doesn't belong to you. If I spray painted my house, that would be ok, because it is mine, and I have to deal with it. If I spray painted someone elses house, that would be wrong, because it isn't mine. Didn't their parents teach them that when they were young?

And by the way, writing your name on a wall generally isn't considered art. Paint a picture, that's art. Writing a name just proves that you aren't entirely illiterate.

Let's not forget, Sketch, that, being literate would also mean that you could READ the name on the wall....... ; ` )

I wonder if they left anything behind here????

If anything was left behind in that room (which is doubtful) then its probaby destroyed already by vandalists

Is it me or does it look like those trays to hold the bodies in the morgue missing, What a shame. It looks digusting. Its sick how people can distroy property when most just want to learn about how these poor pacients lived and what life was like in one of these institutions.

i know jon......people have no respect and you know.....they broke the law

at least it's a decent handstyle, although i personally could never tag in a f*ckin asylum

after reading me's comment about how the living treat its dead, i take back my last comment....

People who vandalize places like this obviously have no respect at all.. Its getting a lot worse as time goes on too, unfortunately... Nice shot though =)

I take great intrest into scary stories and things like that. I have great respect for the dead. I wouldn't mind going into there, but I would never in a zillion years try to vandilize this. This is a place of history, and it really shouldn't be vandilized. I should just be there to be looked at.

DB YEAA TAHTS OUR SHIT BITCHES! daily bread woot wooot

listen to u guys...trying to say this place shouldnt be vandalized?? have yall forgoten that it was abandonded and its rotting from the inside out?..

this graffiti purpose is to get reconized by other vistors.. its more of a brag right because u have to remeber that not everyone can enter this place.. theirs only a couple of entrances to these buildings

i lived Right near this place and like somone else said its part of the scary abandoned enviroment..

Its not disrepectful at all look up the reason why these places got shut down all over america.. ull think alot diff about it

my friend's a photographer also
she took a picture of her friend actually laying down in one of those.

I have to say that the graffiti makes me sad. Especially in a place where a certain amount of respect and dignity should always exist...like a morgue. That's why I like what Motts does-taking pictures of humanity's leftovers being reclaimed by nature and telling the stories that are all but forgotten- that is a beautiful thing. The only thing he leaves behind are his footprints in the dust. Time and nature are left to their devices.

i feel that the graffiti in the morge makes it less sacrey looking idk if anyone feels the same way

Looks like the gurney from the earlier photo came from here. My God, what a dreadful, tragic location- the morgue can only have been for suicides, since if anyone was ill, they'd be sent off to a conventional hospital for treatment. The atmosphere in this whole complex of buildings must have hung heavy with the past torments of the inmates- still, by the time they reached the mortuary, they'd have at last found their release....

I wouldn't go so far as to say that respect to the people needs to be given, it's repect for the building, the piece of our history that's being defaced.
Sure, it's abandoned, it's falling apart, and no one but the state or the property owners claim it; but then again, so are all of those castles in Europe, and not a damn person takes a can of paint to them.
Tagging is for the ignorant and the uneducated halfwits who think it's fun destroy things; no more, no less.

i know alot of bands that actually took photos in the morgue as pictures for the album cover.

In most cases a patient in a state mental hospital would NOT be sent out to a general hospital for care of physical illnesses or injuries. If a person's mental illness is so severe that s/he needs to be in a psychiatric hospital, then that person would be unable to manage in a general hospital without a staff person with them. The state hospitals were already short-staffed; they certainly couldn't spare a person to go be with a patient in the hospital 24 hours a day. So they had complete hospital facilities as part of their physical plant, and would only send a patient out for very specialized care that could not be provided on-site. Thus, most of the deaths at a psychiatric hospital were due to the same causes as death in any other hospital--heart disease, strokes, cancer, etc. Mental illness does make death more likely because a patient with a severe mental illness is less likely to seek routine medical care, less likely to have good insurance, less likely to be taken seriously, less likely to maintain a healthful lifestyle, etc.

dme I find you quite interesting so please meet me and we can discuss this. Post where and when. I am close by in an after care facility as for I was inpatient for many years at KPPC and am allowd out once a day for an hour . You can usually find me at the bluff.

i need to get into the morgue! i will!

What is the different between the m*rg** and the mort*ar*??? Anyone who still alive should answer this!!!

I hope commmenter Albert Fentress isn't the History teacher who, in 1979, lured a teen-aged boy into his home, then bound and sexually abused him, after which he killed the boy an ate his genitals.

i can't stand vandalism. there's a hospital close by to me (thats also on this site) that i like to walk around every couple of weeks to take pics, that is so graffited in some places that i know now why they have such tight security. they don't bother me because i'm a little older now and carry a camera, tri-pod, gas mask, flashlights and a knife...not a crew of teenagers and spray paint....

You would be surprised by how many people actually died in the mourge as opposed to the hospital.