Diana crash photos? Would you look?

[UCM]

I know it sounds terribly morbid but I would. Don't know why.

[WideWebWitch]

No I wouldn't. Vile.

[Lemmingswife]

No I wouldn't either.

[Carmenere]

Not even vaguely interested and think it is sick to publish them. This imo is the lowest form of "journalism". Gross.

[SherlockLGJ]

Words fail me, but in essence NO.

[fuzzywuzzy]

no I wouldnt, I don't see it as being anything newsworthy... I'd be appalled if it were my parent plastered all over the papers.

[SpaceCadet]

no i wouldnt look but can imagine that there are plenty of voyeuristic people who will...the same type that slow down to have a look at road traffic accidents.

[SpaceCadet]

i cant even begin to imagine why anypne would want to look at pics of a dying women.

[fuzzywuzzy]

pictures of war are different tohugh aren't they???

Dying in a car crash is not the same as the death and damage wreaked by war....

[lanismum]

i wouldnt look, not because its diana, just because its a human, dont feel the need to see someone fatally injured.

[Moomin]

i know what ucm means though, but I'd apply it to looking at a pic of anyone dying - i find it horrifyingly compulsive, looking at someone who is alive but that you know is now dead. i think it's to do with my thoughts/fears about death really - one minute you are living, breathing and a person, the next you aren't 'you' anymore. so if i'm being honest i probably would look, just as i'd look at any other photo of someone dying. i'm not proud of admitting this. i think it's maybe a cross between people's fascination with death crossed with the fascination of celebrity?

[UCM]

Thank gawd someone else would look. I thought I was the most warped woman on MN for a minute. I asked my NDN if she would and she said no as well and seemed to think I was strange. To me, it's not like a real person IYKWIM as I definitely don't slow down to rubber neck at car accidents. Just fascinated by the life/death thing...you can send for the men in white coats now ok.

[charliecat]

I googled yesterday. Wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Didnt find anything.

[motherinferior]

I was so involved at the time - I ran the PR for one of the charities she languidly endorsed, and spent the week after her death in the eye of a media storm - that I probably would, actually.

[SherlockLGJ]

LMAO at langudly endorsed.

[Enid]

god yes I would

probably feel a bit sick afterwards though

I havent gone as far as googling as I am not that bothered but would have no problem looking

[Harold]

I want to look for the same reasons as UCM however I have no intention of actually doing so, mainly out of respect for her sons. I have lost my parents and could think of nothing worse than having this dragged up 9 years later and would be sickened to think that people were looking.

[lionheart]

I'd find it hard not to look, so I understand what you mean UCM. Although the fact that the photographers took them in the first place makes me see red.

[charliecat]

just looked, black and white and grainy. Not too grim.

[monkeytrousers]

I've already seen them

[DumbledoresGirl]

Yes I would and yes I have. I would look at any similar pictures, the fact that they are of Diana is meaningless to me. I have been known to stare at length and with total fascination at pictures of dead people, mainly those police shots you see accompanying a magazine article about violent deaths. (I remember one article decades ago about people who apparently died from spontaneous combustion - weird and gruesome I admit.

We live in a world so completely separated from death, yet it will happen to all of us one day (hopefully not violently). Anyway, I find that is why I am drawn to look at pictures such as that, because I want to know more about something that will happen to me one day.

[sugarfree]

I'd look.
To my mind birth and death are two sides of the same coin.
Most of you would have no qualms at looking at pictures of someone giving birth I presume,so it really interests me that you would be so against looking at pictures of someones death.
Far too much taboo surrounding death in our culture.

[expatinscotland]

No, I won't. In fact, I won't look at any photos that I know in advance will show person or animal dying. To me that shouldn't be something that gets printed except w/the person in question's permission - such as the case of a Dutch man who wanted his euthanasia death televised so people could judge for themselves whether it should be considered a crime.

EVERYONE is loved by someone and deserves the same respect. Animals, too, IMO.