“Let conversation cease. Let laughter flee. This is the place where death delights to help the living.”

Decaying wall from the morgue of the abandoned Pilgrim State Hospital. 

Reblogged from Bloodmilk who had this to say:

Pilgrim state psychiatric center [sic] has haunted me since childhood, being that it exists, in all its decadent splendor, in my home town in long island. Opened in 1941, it still, even in its abandoned state, holds the title of being the largest mental institution in the world.

Photo courtesy of Tom Kirsch, one of the most clear headed and thoughtful urban ruin explorers out there. I’ve lost many hours pouring through his website Opacity.