Apr 28 2009
Bow for Corpse
Certainly, corpse was a human. If it wasn’t human, then it wasn’t corpse instead, it was a carcass.
You can’t call a dead animal’s body as a corpse.
A 19-year-old student was found dead in his room at Palangka last week. No signs for dead of violence.
People brought him to an hospital, and coz he was dead, the hospital placed him on the corpse room.
They called his family in Barito.
Coz rumour said that the student was involved in a alcoholic party the day before he died, then the press rushed to the corpse room in the hospital. They pictured him, then they pressed the picture at their first page.
The newspaper got to my hand last week, and astonished me,
How could people make a dead man’s picture as an headline?
When I was a kid, I was often forbidden to see a funeral. They forbade me to see a dead man.
My mom’s personal assistant said that if you viewed a dead man, then he’d open up his eyes.
I got shivered of corpse, thanx to it.
When I grew up, I learnt that my religion respected much for human, begins from when he’s still in womb before birth, as long as he lives, even after he was dead.
That’s why a dead people must be treated as well as treating a live human.
Now what about putting a picture as a news illustration?
I think journalists have some kinda ethic code to ask someone’s permission before they picture the person to be put in newspaper. But what if the picture that they wanna put is the picture of a dead man?
Shall the journalist ask the dead man’s permission to put the picture at the first page?
“Excuse me, corpse. I’d like to shoot your picture for my headline.”
The corpse didn’t answer. It might know that if it answered, it’d make everybody run in horrified. So it preferred shutting up.
It’s so kind of corpse, though it’s dead.
That’s why I don’t like people put a dead man’s picture in this position in the newspaper.
What about the feeling of the spirit to find out his picture put this large? What about the feeling of his family?
It’s so cruel!
I hope that bloggers can learn ethics better than the journalist.
We’re citizen journalist, are risked to do a bigger mistake, coz we never learn about journalistic ethics.
But we’ve learnt about human ethics, that putting a corpse photo for paper’s commercialization is absolutely impolite. Coz human deserves to be respected. Before, during, and even after he was alive.






