Death traditions.

The main members of the deceased's family were not allowed to grieve publicly as it would be creating a scene or crying but they had to do it by their attire and the way their house appeared so their outfits would be very dark which I find interesting as you can't tell if a stranger is in mourning if they arnt crying in public but in Victorian era you would be able to tell straight away in the way they presented themselves. Photography hadn't long been invented so it became costume to photograph the dead which may be seen as 'distasteful' and 'creepy' to this generation. As most died young the photos taken of them would have been there first and last. Which Is a sad aspect to think of as taking photos or 'selfies' has become part of our culture today even with apps like 'instagram' being created to share photos with the world.
Victorians would keep the body of the up to 3 weeks one reason was that the relatives may live far away and during that time travel would take a longer process and they also had a fear of being buried alive which progressed in there being bells attached to the coffin so if anyone had been mistakenly buried they would be able to ring the bell. Then it became part of the law that they had to be dead for around 2 weeks before being buried.

As death became part of pop culture the poet Edgar Allan Poe wrote about a Premature Burial that was published in 1850 about A woman who was so terrified about death and the unknown and being buried alive that it actually happened to her I feel Victorians were so fascinated by the unknown that's why they were fixated on death. I feel that his story gripped the audience so much because it was possible to be buried alive and played with natural fears of the living.

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Other traditions were the exchange of jewelry with lockets of hair, Hair tokens was the biggest form of exchange and became very expensive so people would turn to the black market to purchase the same hair colour as the deceased to give to relatives. So death became a business and a form of making money and actually helped the economy of  Britain,