Last night I was looking through the new Sports Illustrated and they had a full 2 page photo of just after the bombing with lots of blood and gore (I'll spare the details). I was pretty shocked to see it in SI of all places.
I do not like seeing bodies, even dolled up in a casket. H's family is an open-casket family; mine is not. I foresee this causing problems. I caught H showing Joanna his dead grandmother a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, she's too young this time to understand or remember.
My dad took a picture of my grandma when she was in her casket. I thought it was weird at the time, but I was a kid & thought maybe that was a normal thing.
A few years ago my cousin died. Dad went to the funeral, came back & asked me if I wanted to see a picture of her. In her casket. Sounds morbid, but I hope my dad dies before me. I do know want a dead picture of me floating around somewhere.
My dad took a picture of my grandma when she was in her casket. I thought it was weird at the time, but I was a kid & thought maybe that was a normal thing.
A few years ago my cousin died. Dad went to the funeral, came back & asked me if I wanted to see a picture of her. In her casket. Sounds morbid, but I hope my dad dies before me. I do know want a dead picture of me floating around somewhere.
Yeah, I am telling everyone as many times as I can that I don't want an open casket, don't want to be embalmed, just bury me asap and then have a memorial without me, if need be.
Yes, H knows this.
People just don't look the same in open caskets (obviously, they're dead). I guess I don't want that to be the last everyone sees of me.
"There is a 10 inch gash that goes across his torso, that seems to indicate and explains a lot of fear, there was this dynamic scorching and big hole. They were wondering, did they [the bombers] have something on him that functioned during all that gun fire and pressure cooker bomb?"
Paraphrasing, but that was just said on live feed.
Jesus. I've honestly only seen the Jeff Bauman picture cropped. Jesus. I am speechless.
Right? & he looks alert.. shock but alert. I can't his thoughts being wheeled out and knowing he lost his legs.
I realize that it's newsworthy and whatnot, but I am really bothered by the fact that people have been posting the picture (especially the unedited one) to their FB feed, with the caption of "so sad" or "this is so horrible" - so sad and horrible that you feel the need to blast a picture of this poor guy all over the place? I feel like if I was in some horrible incident like this, I wouldn't want the world to be gawking at me in that moment.