Few
days ago on the 4th, I wrote a Blog titled 'Suicide Online', about a 19
year old boy announcing his suicide online inviting his family, school
mates, and cyber friends or anyone who wished to watch it. That to me
was indeed a sick and twisted scandal, a tragedy made into a spectacle.
A few years back, I posted another Blog titled 'Televised Suicide' about the death of a British man, Craig Ewert. That documentary recorded the whole process was emitted by BBC, no doubt aware of the foreseeable controversy, and the corresponding noises from all media and the general public. Well, this happened as expected, becoming one of the most debated subject and probably more like a scandal. When Ewert, surround by his family and his closest friends, having kissed his wife, breathed his last breath serenely and closed his eyes peacefully for the last time, witnessed on the TV screens in the British homes by thousands, he concluded his life a free man, having made his own decision for his own destiny as he had always done in all his life. Meanwhile, in many more TV screens in other parts of the world, millions, anonymous, famous or unimportant people, were watching fights, murders, robberies, kidnapping, pornography, teenage killings ... and outside, they sold their miserable or scandalous life stories for money, insulting, humiliating, screaming, beating up and killing each other, all spread out on the screen or played out in the streets, without offending the sensibility of anybody. But these same people voiced their indignation considering the documentary indecent. We have lived in the modern society with continuous violence and obscenity any which way you look. There seems to be no space left for decency and dignity any more; not of the living, nor for the dead. Tags:documentary,sensibility |
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