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Quite the opposite, Charles. This shows that we understand the implications of death less than ever. You’ve read my own take on death awareness (“Medicine for Life”)
http://deathmatters.org/medicine-for-life
This kind of blood and guts is a reflection of insensitivity and ignorance as to what death really means to a human being.
I guarantee you this kind of imagery is not as popular in Baghdad or on the streets of India, where it must be partly redundant and partly abhorrent.
As I’ve said elsewhere, there could also be kind of automatic compensation acting here – our psyches try to recreate a balance when things get overly sanitized (and consequently out of touch with reality).
Ah, yes, Thomas, I take your point about extremes. And also about Baghdad. Yes indeed.
I agree, DM, and I think ‘cartoonizing’ death can hardly make it more real. Not sure about the compensating for oversanitizing point – it seems to me that both are a way of unrealizing it.
I’ze finished izeizing now.