Morbid voyeurism

Abstract

Recently I observed a group of elderly men at a café looking at the photo of a woman’s face shorn off by a shotgun. They passed the phone around and gawped at the image. They seemed blind to the fact that before her life was taken from her, that woman was someone loved by her children and relatives, a human being worthy of respect even in death. One of the worse violations of a person’s dignity is probably that of gaping at their mangled corpse after they have been killed in a horrific accident or grisly murder. The act of covering a blood Splattered corpse soon after death is meant to prevent our eyes from examining the remains of what once was an intact and valuable individual. It preserves the honour that every human life is entitled to, even when lost.