Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:afo From: afo@pucc-k (Laurie Sefton) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: old corpses in the newspaper Message-ID: <339@pucc-k> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 12:09:13 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-k.339 Posted: Fri Sep 28 12:09:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 01:00:53 EDT Organization: Inside a linked list Lines: 28 {sorry if you're trying to eat while reading this} Excuse me, but; Did anyone see the story about the British soldier having been found after having been deep frozen in the arctic for the last 38 years or so? I didn't really mind the story, but the photo accompianing the story is what I would like to expound upon. I realise that the scientists are thrilled and delightedthat the man had been so well preserved for all that time,and now they can findout what killed all those men up there, but did the wire service (and the Chicago Tribune in this case) have to treat us to a photo of the poor man's corpse? This smacks of the photo-sensationalism that has become rampant in the last few years. First we got to see the body-bags, now we get to see the bodies is glorious black and white. And no, I am not being overly squeamish, I spent quite a few years cutting up various dead beasties with one hand, and eating my lunch with the other. What I am talking about is that the family of that man (or anyone else who has died in 'newsworthy' circumstances) ought to have the right of not having their family members paraded in the newspaper so that the necrophiliacs of the world can get their kicks. Do you think the photographer would be thrilled if someone told him that they were going to dig up his grandmum and take pictures because the 'public has a right to know' how the body has held up over the years? I'm disgusted Laurie Sefton {allegra, ihnp4, harpo}pur-ee!pucc-k!afo