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Can you still use a favorite celebrity's photo as phone wallpaper after they have died?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
The person's death alone does not make the photograph necessarily unfavorable. Consider its meaning to you and how you understand the person.
In my faith understanding, energy may change after death, but positive intentions during taking and producing a photograph may remain. Remembering the person's effort, kindness, and encouragement can still bring happiness and strength. Their absence does not erase all positive feelings.
I therefore consider both sides: the photograph's connection and the user's impressions and feelings. Continuing to see the person as positive and worth learning from may reduce the effect of external changes. This concerns understanding and using photographs, not reaching the same conclusion about all images solely from whether the subject is alive.