Should they have shown it?

[faithofjob777]

Nodar Kumaritashvil's death in Winter Olympics, I mean.

With a little bit of searching, I found the video.  It made me feel nauseated, and I do not understand my curiosity.  Why would I want to see someone die?  It was so shocking for me---so quick, and he looked like an instantly broken twig when he hit the metal post.  But the instantaneous and almost casual nature of his death tells me once again I can be next anytime---anywhere---and now is always the best time to repent.  That is the only good thing out of what I did. My prayers to his loved ones, and the safety of the other players remaining. Now the event is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of my life.

Jaime

[richard]

I turned it off when they showed it before the opening ceremonies.. but only because my kids were watching with me.  I'm thankful, though, that they were and that lead me to turn it off.

[faithofjob777]

Yes, it is good to not see it.  Though many avoid the truth about the imminence of death, seeking to witness a young body immediately broken after being thrown against a metal pole, is bordering on an almost savage kind of voyeurism.  It is like wanting to see a video tape of a woman being raped and beaten, or a child's face being blown away by an accidental firing of a gun by the child's father---after I hear about either. I would ask myself while looking for the video, "hmm, I wonder how it really happened."  Isn't it enough that I heard it happen?

That is how I feel about it now anyway. I may be thinking too much about the situation, but it is too late for me to take it back.  I would just learn the next time not to be too curious and eager to see such gruesome things.  We know death, and yet I realize something more fundamental: it is preferable not to desire and literally see how deaths of indivuals specifically happened.  For I gained nothing from this but satisfaction of my curiosity; and without compassion for the deceased, how much of that was really godly?

Jaime