Current Events > Why would someone want to watch videos of people dying?

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Seeing that stuff screws up your spirit.
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Well they can't just show porn on the news, tragedy and death are the next best sellers.
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I don't watch it myself but I can understand why some people might do. This stuff happens in real life, if you ignore it, doesn't mean it never happens.
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The subreddit is really popular but I would never visit it.
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There's a curiosity with it for some. Like that 90 minute documentary online of people committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate. I saw that one. Idk. There's something sad and horrifying but also fascinating about it. Of course that's that.

Just accidental death videos? I assume we're talking about that fair ride accident. It's pretty tame. At this point I think I've seen it all of course. I just look at it with a clinical view. The what happened. The anatomy of the accident itself. Like the 1955 Le Mans disaster, that Nevada air race crash a few years ago or that Ukraine air show crash like a decade ago. Now that one is not for the faint of heart. 70+ people getting sliced into pieces as a fighter jet skims across a crowd and the crashes.
After you see that one there's not anything you can't see.
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I don't get it either. It's not hard to grasp how someone can die or get killed. I don't need to see someone's worst day on film.
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If it gets to you deep enough you'll have dreams about death.
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I like dying vicariously.

Honestly i think more people should see a video of someone dying. It really puts life into perspective, as well as videos of babies being born. Obviously if you have seen either of these things in person than no need, but otherwise you should be curious to know more about dearth
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I watch deaths once in a while, mainly to expand what I consider my boundaries. It's sort of similar to why I do not block any forum members, even if I rarely agree with them and get irritated by their posts. I want to always be able to handle whatever comes my way. Not going to lie, though. Sometimes the deaths are brutal, and I think it's been making me more cynical and apathetic as the years progress.
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morbid curiosity.
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If you actively watch that you are a sick person that society should lock up.
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What about Christine Chubbuck?

Anyway, I couldn't bear to watch the R. Budd Dwyer one or any others.
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i have a friend who likes watching that stuff. he subscribes to multiple subreddits specifically morbid reality and watch people die. i don't understand it.

EternalDivide posted...

There's a curiosity with it for some. Like that 90 minute documentary online of people committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate. I saw that one. Idk. There's something sad and horrifying but also fascinating about it. Of course that's that.

i saw parts of that same documentary. and while i don't normally enjoy watching morbid or gruesome things, something about that movie really intrigued me.
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Any of you guys seen the vid of the kid and the hammer? I think it's called like three guys one hammer or somthing.