I'm not able to find any website which clearly talks about a specific "mourning room", though it is certainly documented that the front room of a house, often known as a "parlour" at the time, would be used to view the corpse of a deceased family member. This practice is still common in Southeast Asia, BTW. This room might also have been called a "sitting room", and now is likely the "living room".
Do you have a link? Do you think that anyone in the 2000s is likely to be confused by the term amenity=mourning_room? -- Joseph Eisenberg On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:36 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 18:19, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:14 PM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 08:46, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >> >>> amenity=mourning_room >>>> >>> >>> Unacceptable. "Mourning room" was the old name for what is now >>> known as a "living room" (and was also known as a "parlour"), A >>> room in somebody's house which was pressed into use for the >>> display of a corpse when needed. >>> >>> >> I think you'll find that's a 'morning room', defined by the OED as 'a >> room used as a sitting room during the morning or early part of the day'. >> > > Those existed too, if you were rich enough to have a very large house > and could move from room to room to follow the sun. For most > people, there was only one sitting room which also served as a place > to put a corpse. I thought I gave a link explaining this. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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