I agree to that on principle, but are we really as self-righteous as we like to believe? The problem is that in out heart of hearts, a lot of us (if not all) want to know the grisly details because of that morbid streak that is present in most of us, but to which we seldom admit. That is the reason why TV series like Mayday (aka Air Crash Investigation) are so avidly watched and makers of docu-dramas about Hiroshima (BBC, no less), 9/11 etc provide the graphic details thay they know will be expected by their audience. Even disaster feature films need to be "realistic" apart from being well made in order to be successful, even if the more gory details are often edited to appease the more "humane" folk among us.
Even here on ET, we have discussed about how various victims of the Titanic disaster could have died, ranging from being maimed by falling onto jagged edges, crushed by falling debris, freezing to death in the water and even the possibility of a few who might have lived for up to a minute trapped in the dark in their enclosed cabins in the stern till their air pockets were compressed and expelled by the flooding. Those victims included men, women and children. Compared with those painful deaths, those on board the Titan submersible had a mercifully instantaneous and painless exit when it imploded. Yes, I know tht the difference is that almost all survivors and their then immediate family were naturally gone by the time ET came iinto being; but their descendants are contemporaneous, just like the families and friends of the Titan victims.
So, at the end of the day it all depends on how one looks at it.
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