What gets me is this: what is this going to prove to this guy? I’m assuming he’s not a crime scene investigator, so it’s not like he’s a professional who could actually learn new information from these photos. And he’s made it clear that he isn’t unbiased, so it’s not like seeing these photos would give him insight…

I was just at a funeral last weekend. The deceased was laid out at both a viewing and during the service itself. Did it look like him as he was in life? No, not really (although toward the end he was an assemblage of tubes and big glasses and trembling hands - he actually did look “at rest” at the service). But seeing…

I remember a bunch of my (male) friends excitedly searching for the Daniel Pearl footage on the internet when that happened.

Right? I’m still not over the time that I google-image searched Chris Farley in junior high after binging a bunch of his movies, and saw the pictures of him dead on his living room floor. They’re some of the first pictures that pop up for him, too. I can only imagine how awful it is to be a family member, knowing that…

We had a similar situation with my daughter, whose bed is next to a window near some ivy on the outside of our house. Our doctor determined that the bites were rat mites, which are so microscopic when unengorged you can have 100 between your wrist and forearm and never know it. The rats were living in the ivy, and…

OMG THE EYE FLOATIES!!!!!!

I hate this part of funerals. It makes you remember a person as they lied in death, not how you might have seen them last in life (and yes, you may have seen them very ill and that in and of itself is a horrible memory).

“Eh, it’s just your eyeball melting, no biggie.”

If Frances Bean and Courtney were Jan and Jane Smith from Normalville, this stalking freak would’ve locked up years ago. The same rules need to apply.

Oh! I have those, too. My eye doctor diagnosed them by saying: “Oh, this is just the gelatinous part of your eyeball pulling away from the rear surface of the eye. It happens when you get older — there’s nothing you can do. Call me if you develop big dark patches or start to lose vision in large parts of your…

Seeing a person at rest as they’re lying “in state”? Fine. Seeing crime scene photos in their full, bloody awfulness? Leave that to the coroner.

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Holy shit. No one needs to see a suicide/death scene. And I say that as someone who has experienced it (but weirdly grateful my experience was less gruesome than I imagine Kurt’s was). It will haunt me for the rest of my life.

And, even just experiencing images. I was accidentally watching TV when they showed the…

They could release a video of Kurt Cobain killing himself and this dipshit would find some way to twist it as a cover up or false video or some other fanatical conspiracy-theory bullshit.

Unless this Lee stalker guy has expertise in forensics or criminology, he has no need and no right to see those photos. And I’d like to think the medical examiners office in Seattle did its job properly.

As someone who lost their brother to suicide - but not getting the truth about it until 5 years later...

What a lovely photo of the two of them.

Excellent response. There was nothing ageist in Jerry’s comment. The degree of anger young people feel toward us “Oldes” is astonishing: especially since - for the past 30 years - so many parents have gone above and beyond to give their children everything they ask for.

In my opinion- saying that people change over time isn’t ageist, it’s a fact (says the middle-aged lady). You know what’s ageist? When people pile on someone like Madonna for “not dressing her age” or “trying too hard: sad” for wearing the same kind of concert and gala gear as starlets. My response is along the lines…

As a 50 year old who regrets every single stupid tattoo she got in the ‘80s and ‘90s... I agree. And I’m sorry you’ve had to go through all that horror.