Did anyone else find this disturbing?

[Michelstaedter]

I dislike seeing someone dead, whether it's animals or humans (regardless of whether the person was "good or bad").
Maybe this is because I've had several pets die and I saw their corpses, and I saw a relative's body in the hospital. But when I see images of dead people, seeing their faces, instead of "seeing peace," is a strange feeling, because it's not even like I think they're asleep or anything like that.

The discomfort worsens if it was someone known, familiar, or if the person is mutilated or there is visible damage to the face, body, etc.

 

[LastNite]

Are you talking about gore or just dead bodies? I've seen plenty of gore but dead bodies are definitely weirder and "scarier." The eyes rolled up and their skin color looking all different and weird it doesn't even look human. The eyes are the most scariest thing about a dead body in my opinion.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yes, it was distressing. I've only seen one person- my Grandma. Her jaw was wide open- a bit like that 'Scream' mask. It was like something out of a horror film. She'd literally only just passed too- in the hospital. Mostly, it was just so sad though. So incomprehensible too. This face and body you knew so well except now, it was just empty. We later saw her in the funeral parlour. They had wired her jaw closed by then. I kissed her forehead to say goodbye and she was ice cold. I suppose there was that closure that she had really gone but yeah- all things death are just horrible I think. Funerals too. I just stand there bawling my eyes out.

 

[Agon321]

I think it's a normal reaction. Death is generally disgusting and there's nothing romantic about it.
Especially when it involves someone you knew well, or worse, loved.
Biology can be very disturbing.

 

[moya117]

no no, i get what you mean. even imagining it, i get shivers

 

[KillingPain267]

No, it is what it is. Part of reality.

 

[Forveleth]

Many people are uncomfortable with death which makes sense. We are built to fight it with everything we are and have become very deep and introspective about what could come afterwards, which can add to apprehension. I used to fear death and found dead things disturbing until I reminded myself death is a natural end to life. Every living thing dies, it is inevitable. If anything it is a comfort having one certain thing in my future.

 

[JesiBel]

No, on the contrary, I'm very curious, I usually look for autopsy reports to see the photos. I think it's good to desensitize yourself, death is something natural that will happen to every living being. It no longer scares, it no longer shocks, it is what it is.

 

[CatLvr]

No, but I grew up around death and dying. (Both parents were in medical professions. The dinner table conversation was ... "Different" ....) Circle of life shit. Death has always fascinated me. I don't believe this is all there is for us and I do believe that what comes after is better. Not religious, but I am VERY spiritual ...

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

No, I don't find this disturbing and the question is academic. You will never see your dead body.

 

[Michelstaedter]

Wow! I think this is my most-replied post. I thought I was rejected even on SaSu like I was elsewhere. LOL

Well, after reading the responses, maybe at some point I didn't quite understand the meaning of seeing looking at an animal or human corpse as "disturbing." My idea is that it's not that I'm unaware of death or that I see it as unnatural or something that scares me in and of itself, but that it's something strange, like something lacking "essence." That is, you look at a pet, a family member, you remember the happy moments, and when they lie dead, you see that emptiness that transfers to the emotional, not only in their body, but in you, like a loss that's more than physical, it's psychological (you won't see that being again forever).

I consider my disturbing to be more philosophical or intellectual (if you can give it a name ), because it is not like I run away from looking at any corpse, but rather it is like an attraction that deep down also makes me think about my death and from there comes a small desire to also feel attraction in itself for mortality as something philosophical (thanatophilia), because in the end and at some point I thought that I liked death as an essence of the end of ailments, of suffering existence, illnesses, however it is not like I am attracted to anything related to a corpse, blood, rotten meat, the fetid smell

In short, I consider that my dislike for the cadaverous is a certain necrophobia and my attraction or desire for death, the longing for nothingness, that which refers to eternal peace and other synonyms is a thanatophilia that has nothing to do with the other that, although it is natural, seems grotesque and sad to me if it is a loved one.

 

[catfriend]

The discomfort worsens if it was someone known, familiar, or if the person is mutilated or there is visible damage to the face, body, etc.

yeah, visible damage to the face is the biggest source of discomfort for me -- i think because they start to look less like a dead human at that stage. uncanny valley dialed to eleven. (i can report that drownings do especially nightmarish things to the face...)

i think this is a normal reaction, though, given that dead humans/animals/whatever carry disease. we're wired to avoid that if at all possible, and i'd assume that extends to pictures, too. :)