To think newspapers should not print pictures of dead bodies being removed from homes in body bags.

[Eglu]

Daily Mail had a picture of Amy Winehouses body being taken from her home in a body bag. I'm sure others have printed it too.

I think it is awful for the family, completely insensitive and unnecessary to the reporting of the story.

I remember the same thing when Heath Ledger died.

spiderpig you say this "Fortunately I have never been in the unspeakably awful position of losing a child, but I think images of body bags would be the least of my concerns at that time" but you really can't know and neither can anyone else until God forbid they are in that situation.

But even if that photograph is the least of their concerns today, they Winehouse family are going to be grieving forever. It never goes away. And at some point, now or in the future, they are going to be confronted by that photograph and it is going to cause them pain. It is. Because that's not a picture any parent should see of their child and the situation surrounding it being taken, with sleazy pap photographers or freaky souvenir hunters desperate to be the one to take it, is unspeakably awful.

I have a friend who lost her baby son by going into labour early and alone. By the time the ambulance arrived her son had been born and had died in her hands. They had nothing suitable to take him away in so they took a bin liner from her kitchen and used that. The indignity of that cut her to the core even though she was dealing with 'bigger' issues at the immediate moment. When my son died I was convinced they were going to bury him in a medical waste container by mistake and phoned the hospital obsessively to check he was still safe and would have a coffin. When I lost my daughter I had nightmares about her being stored in a tuppaware box. Had I seen them in body bags I think it would have badly shocked and distressed me. Had they been on the cover of a newspaper in those bags, well I don't know how I would have borne it.

There is no "least of your concerns" when your child has died, everything assumes a massive importance and significance and things that may pass you by at the time can come back to haunt you for years afterwards.

If people stopped buying this tat, the newspapers would stop printing it. It's only natural that papers will print graphic pictures, trashy intrusive stories etc if it increases sales for them.

It's as simple as that.

YANBU, I think it is amazingly disrespectful. Unfortunately people won't stop buying this tat - it's human nature, same as people used to turn up for public floggings & executions (still do in certain parts of the world, eg latest hangings in Iran). It's supposed to act as a deterrent in those circumstances, possibly a valid argument, but in other cases such as the Norway story it is just grim voyeurism.

YANBU. I haven't seen the images and don't feel I'm missing out. Unnecessary.

I saw the pictures on the news. Can't remember if it was just photos or if it was moving footage but I was disgusted by it. How ghoulish do people really need to be? :(

YANBU - what upset me too was the way they also added links to the videos where she was obviously falling apart, and there are heaps of pics up there of times she has been drunk or high and obviously in a bad place. It shows such a massive lack of respect both to her, her family and her fans. People should be remembered for what they did right - in this case her incredible music - and not for how they messed up. It is disrespectful and sympomatic of the gutter press in the UK.