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so I looked at the crash photos of Nikki Catsouras after all these years


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Just now, scoobdog said:

I don't even remember that and it was in my back yard.

I have heard of it in 2006 when it happened but never actually seen the pics. Its not my turn on but someone brought it up and curiosity got the best of me. 

I felt deeply disturbed for several hours. 

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Just now, scoobdog said:

I dunno.  It's not necessarily that I fault her for getting into the crash, just that it's hard to be disturbed when you know she had to have seen it coming. It changes how you see the corpse.

Well she was going too damn fast like Paul Walker. 

Hit the back of another moving car and then bounced into a toll both at 100mph. 

So yes she saw the toll both coming and then....  lost her head :|

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4 minutes ago, Phillies said:

Well she was going too damn fast like Paul Walker. 

Hit the back of another moving car and then bounced into a toll both at 100mph. 

So yes she saw the toll both coming and then....  lost her head :|

Pretty much.  Looking at dead bodies is a rather macabre exercise in artistic license.  The body is an inanimate object, so it takes some kind of context to elicit any feelings for the deceased.  It's hard not to quantify the promise that is lost by an eighteen year old dying, but there is something of a scale to it:  how does one feel more empathy for an eighteen year old who, let's say, is murdered in a botched robbery versus Nikki?  Granted, the sight of a decapitated body is rare and poses its own problems.

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Just now, scoobdog said:

Pretty much.  Looking at dead bodies is a rather macabre exercise in artistic license.  The body is an inanimate object, so it takes some kind of context to elicit any feelings for the deceased.  It's hard not to quantify the promise that is lost by an eighteen year old dying, but there is something of a scale to it:  how does one feel more empathy for an eighteen year old who, let's say, is murdered in a botched robbery versus Nikki?  Granted, the sight of a decapitated body is rare and poses its own problems.

I think the grotesque nature of the body here (the head) is symbolic and this is the source of the empathy. 

Poor girl lost her face- she lost her identity- to life's problems. Her casket will be closed.

So something like that. 

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22 minutes ago, Phillies said:

I think the grotesque nature of the body here (the head) is symbolic and this is the source of the empathy. 

Poor girl lost her face- she lost her identity- to life's problems. Her casket will be closed.

So something like that. 

Indeed.  There is something symbolic about the way the crash both literally and figuratively dehumanized the deceased.

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