No dignity for the dead

'GORE PORN'. A Filipina who has lived abroad for some time now observed the different ways Filipinos treat their dead, especially when it comes to news and social media. She said foreigners never show grisly photos of people who were shot dead, or killed in accidents or natural disasters. On the other hand, Filipinos seem to relish showing the dead in the most gory or graphic way possible.

HUMANE TREATMENT FOR THE DEAD. She mentioned as examples how the dead were displayed for public viewing during super typhoon Yolanda where heaps of corpses were often shown in the news. In contrast she cites what happened after the tsunami that hit Fukushima in Japan.

"There were more people killed in the Fukushima disaster, but do you see any photos of the bodies? None gyud," she said.