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I know there are posters who have the footage or a screen shot they have DM’d to people. Can someone send it to me? I’m not positive I want to see it but my curiosity is ridiculously high at the moment. I would like to think BL covered her…
tbh I have also had a (something stronger than curiosity) to see said footage/screenshots.
iirc there has been quite a bit of discussion about wanting to see/who does/who doesn’t and of course there is some polarity surrounding that.
I think a possibility that may be under surface even for those of us who do have desire to see can be “explained” from a psychology/grief perspective.
Bear with me—I have not done any remotely related work in so long and completely changed career paths, and so am not a verified anything here. Therefore, let me lead my Holstein through this post to MOO all over it; even anything that might be true is heretofore christened by my cow
MOOOO
Most of us here didn’t know GP in person. Some of us probably “knew” her as well as one can know someone through SM before she was in the news/reported missing. IMO that doesn’t matter. Through pieces of the story (esp, from what I’ve seen, the Moab footage), we have formed some kind of emotion not just about ourselves/our own families and friends but for GP. Essentially, our empathy is high for more reasons than I want to list and make y’all read.
moo moo moo
Because of this, many of us are experiencing grief. All humans grieve differently.
I think there is kind of a trope in tv/books/movies when a loved one is informed of a death, asks to see the body, and LE suggests it is inadvisable…the person often insists anyway, with some form of “I need to, to make it real.”
IME IRL we are the same. Some of us need to see a loved ones remains to continue a healthy grieving process, no matter the state of remains. Some of us prefer to remember their perfectly whole physical form. Neither is wrong, bad, weird, or gross IMO.
obviously this situation is different—there are privacy (maybe not correct word but I’m in a hurry and can’t think of better) issues; we are mostly not family or close friends, where do we draw the line because there probably are people who just get kicks from seeing morbid things, etc. Also obvious is the fact that any view wouldn’t be visually recognizable, but rather we’d work from the knowledge that the “something” seen is what we have been told was later positively identified.
Super long post, but from the first time I saw a post requesting a view of the footage/screenshots way back, I wanted to toss a MOO grief theory out there as a way to say maybe some of us who have expressed interest are, beyond curiosity, also processing through a whole host of emotions surrounding one universal human fact that every person we connect with will die and that we all have our own emotions surrounding our own mortality.
one more walk of my lovely virtual pet cow here. moooo
