Hicksey Posted May 30, 2006 Report Posted May 30, 2006 How about open-casket funerals? Are they unnecessary and barbaric? How about funerals in general?I think, if you are having people die for your country, any amount of attention they get is never too much. You may question the motives of why the media would choose to acknowledge their sacrifice, but so long as that coverage is respectful, it's a positive. You may think it panders to our rubbernecking instincts, but they're just coffins draped in flags, not body parts in a town square. Ignoring them would be (and is) much worse. I agree that we should be doing whatever we can to honour their memory, but I think that plastering pictures of their dead bodies and caskets is hardly honouring them. If we wish to honour them we should be plastering up pictures of them in service to their country, pictures of them in their many other proud moments still more of doing the things they enjoyed doing in life. To me plastering pictures of the dead all over the media is akin to celebrating their death. We should be celebrating their lives. Quote "If in passing, you never encounter anything that offends you, you are not living in a free society." - Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell - “In many respects, the government needs fewer rules, but rules that are consistently applied.” - Sheila Fraser, Former Auditor General.
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