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[VaeVictis]

Abraxas, you're making an awful lot of assumptions about the people who look at this stuff; their personalities, their motives, their capacity for emotion. Your disgust is understandable and valid, don't get me wrong, but things are way more complex than you're making them seem.

As many assumptions as have been made about being over-sensitive and stupid and impudent? Sorry if it's off-base, but I think that when someone has no emotional reaction to mutilation and suicide, I have some basis to say that they lack basic empathy.

As for the whole 'death is natural' thing, suicide and homicide aren't. Or if you accept that it is, and assume that it's good if it's natural, then why should we work to prevent it?
If you were actually interested in the phenomena, you might focus more of the victims' lives and circumstances than their deaths.
Do animals do kill each other while others watch? Sure. But we are not those creatures. A mentally healthy human being will not cannibalize their young (lions) and eat their mother's excrement to obtain antibodies (koalas).
I myself find myself poking around NDE's and such, but I don't post pictures and videos of those people dying and then try to be academic about it. Like I said, if it all was fake, I'd wonder why it was taken down, too. But seeing as it wasn't, I don't see the reason for the outrage.
Be fascinated by death, I really don't care, but don't allow people to suffer because of it.
Academic standpoint or not, you're benefitting from someone else's pain and suffering.

And be honest, you wouldn't be reposting it if you didn't get something out of it. By reposting it, you are encouraging it, even if internally you don't mean to. You are perpetuating the problem and making the content more visible. But maybe I should be happy about that, it'll bring the issue to the forefront so it can be fought against.

And I'm sorry Ash, but emotion acts as a great motivator to me. But you can continue to see it another way if you wish.

'Don't like, don't look!'
Normally good advice if no one's getting harmed. But that isn't true here, and I have every right to step in. Stuff like this, well, doesn't magically disappear if you turn the other way.