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  1. redhorse

    redhorse DI Forum Adept

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    Regarding cultural differences, there's a decent Filipino movie from 2003, "The Crying Ladies", on the subject of Filipinas hired as "professional mourners" for wealthy Chinese-Filipino families in Manila. I saw it many years ago with the asawa. It won the Best Picture Award that year at the Manila Film festival, and actually got a pretty good review from the NY Times.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/movies/film-in-review-crying-ladies.html

    There's a copy of it now on YouTube, but unfortunately doesn't have subtitles:
     
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    redhorse, Dec 7, 2019
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  2. Notmyrealname

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    I find this thread very interesting - it seems people wish to ARGUE over the ways individuals are wired. Some clearly are very comfortable with pictures of the deceased being shown on the internet and some are very much against it. Some cite the fact that the person is dead and so has no feelings about it and some show concern about the feelings of those left behind (I fall into this camp).

    No one is wrong!

    In some cultures people eat other humans -perhaps their relatives. I find that distasteful (pun intended!) but I cannot criticise that cultural stance.
     
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    Notmyrealname, Dec 6, 2019
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  3. Crystalhead

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    With out question it will always have some cause and effect on a person at some level to extreme anger to opening a court case or a shrug or 2 at least. Its just that in this fast growing world of gadgetry and the reckless (too often) use of such brings us to a point where (The expectation of privacy is not what it use to be) Case in point - The World loved the final Gaddafi images and even the Lady Dianna had coroner pics leaked. No one is immune in this new age. The bar is always getting raised as in the photographs of WWI, WWII which I highly doubt had any link to Voyeurism. The expectation of privacy may actually be totally lost if laws do not keep up with Man kinds ignorance which is lately moving like a speeding bullet.
     
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    Crystalhead, Dec 6, 2019
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  4. bootlegger

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    American national identified as Harold Smith found dead inside a rented apartment in Mangnao.
     
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    bootlegger, Dec 1, 2019
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