Rusos ofrecen 80 dólares por la mejor selfie con un muerto

Ciudad de México.- Un grupo en la red social VK, algo así como el “Facebook ruso”, instó a los usuarios a publicar selfies con cadáveres, asegurando que el ganador de la mejor foto se llevaría aproximadamente 80 dólares.

La comunidad en cuestión, llamada “Selfie with the Deceased” (Selfie con un fallecido), que cuenta con 500 miembros, detalló las reglas de la competencia donde la única condición es que la persona este sonriendo, ya que “el difunto ha ido a un lugar mejor”.

Pic shows: Pictures from VK community and from Russian news site that show people with their dead relatives. Photos from social networks. A macabre internet group has been launched to promote taking selfies with dead friends and relatives, and organisers claim they are simply recreating a Victorian English tradition. Called "selfie with a dead man" the grotesque site, set up by a former funeral service employee, already has scores of followers. Bizarrely founder Alfred Polyakov, 28, who has established the group on the VKontakte social network, even promises awards and cash prizes for the best photos sent in. The prizes go from 50 rubles (50 pence GBP) to 5,000 rubles (50GBP pounds). He said: "People are afraid to make selfies with the dead and to send them to us, we got only a few photos, but did not publish them. "First of all, we do not allow underage people to take part in our contest, second of all we will publish photos only if the dead person’ relatives sign papers claiming they don’t mind. "There is nothing bad in it, if you take a photo with love with your dead relative." And despite the fact that many people are appalled at the practice he said he was actually doing the dead and their relatives a favour. He said: "With the contest we are doing a good thing, trying to help the family of the dead person come to terms with their grief. And of course, there is the cash, 5,000 roubles is a lot of money, if they get it." The weird movement started when Polyakov posted a message encouraging people to make selfies with a corpse at the funeral of 13 year-old girl in Syktivkar, who died in car crash. He offered a reward of 5,000 rubles to anyone who did it but there were no takers, but there was so much debate on the subject, he made it into a larger project. People have now threatened to block the group. One posted: "Let those that have died to go in peace. Leave them alone." So far only a few selfies have been taken with dead people although many have joined the group. Polyakov said the strange practice was common in Britain during Victorian times, but quickly fell out of favour. In Victorian Britain photographs were not as common and usually taken by professionals in studios, so when a person died the relatives would arrange a picture so they had something to remember the dead person by. It was particularly common to take pictures of the children as a memento for their grieving parents, often photographing them with siblings or their favourite toys. (ends)

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Pic shows: Pictures from VK community and from Russian news site that show people with their dead relatives. Photos from social networks. A macabre internet group has been launched to promote taking selfies with dead friends and relatives, and organisers claim they are simply recreating a Victorian English tradition. Called "selfie with a dead man" the grotesque site, set up by a former funeral service employee, already has scores of followers. Bizarrely founder Alfred Polyakov, 28, who has established the group on the VKontakte social network, even promises awards and cash prizes for the best photos sent in. The prizes go from 50 rubles (50 pence GBP) to 5,000 rubles (50GBP pounds). He said: "People are afraid to make selfies with the dead and to send them to us, we got only a few photos, but did not publish them. "First of all, we do not allow underage people to take part in our contest, second of all we will publish photos only if the dead person’ relatives sign papers claiming they don’t mind. "There is nothing bad in it, if you take a photo with love with your dead relative." And despite the fact that many people are appalled at the practice he said he was actually doing the dead and their relatives a favour. He said: "With the contest we are doing a good thing, trying to help the family of the dead person come to terms with their grief. And of course, there is the cash, 5,000 roubles is a lot of money, if they get it." The weird movement started when Polyakov posted a message encouraging people to make selfies with a corpse at the funeral of 13 year-old girl in Syktivkar, who died in car crash. He offered a reward of 5,000 rubles to anyone who did it but there were no takers, but there was so much debate on the subject, he made it into a larger project. People have now threatened to block the group. One posted: "Let those that have died to go in peace. Leave them alone." So far only a few selfies have been taken with dead people although many have joined the group. Polyakov said the strange practice was common in Britain during Victorian times, but quickly fell out of favour. In Victorian Britain photographs were not as common and usually taken by professionals in studios, so when a person died the relatives would arrange a picture so they had something to remember the dead person by. It was particularly common to take pictures of the children as a memento for their grieving parents, often photographing them with siblings or their favourite toys. (ends)

 

“Estamos trabajando para esclarecer las circunstancias que rodearon estos informes y tratando de determinar si un individuo o un grupo de personas que están detrás de esto”, señaló Alexander Shidyusovsaid, portavoz de la policía de la localidad rusa Syktyvkar, al Daily Mail.

Fuente: diarioregistrado.com

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