Edith Shain, the Kissing Nurse, Dies at 91 9.24K Jeff Neumann 06/23/10 05:28AM Filed to: and now she's dead and now she's dead Edith shain Photographs World War Two Life Magazine Edith Shain, the nurse in one of the most memorable photographs from World War Two, died Sunday at the age of 91. The picture, taken in Times Square on V-J Day after the Japanese surrender, appeared in Life magazine. [Life]