Tsunami Death Toll Ever Rising.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 12/29/2004, 3:23 pm

80,000 now dead, expected to raise over 100,000.

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 12/29/2004, 3:32 pm

A few days ago they were sure it wouldnt peak 20,000.
:cry:

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 12/29/2004, 3:46 pm

Cracky wrote:The bodies could help it, yes, but on the flipside, would you like the whole world to see your brother or sister being rolled into a mass grave?

personally, it would be selfish to be angry about that. If it meant other lives were saved because my brother was put on television I would be okay with that. Sometimes drastic times call for drastic measures and you cannon be politically correct all the time.

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 12/29/2004, 4:31 pm

I suppose.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/29/2004, 5:54 pm

God, this is horrible. :neutral:

Long Jonny · Post by **Long Jonny** » 12/29/2004, 6:37 pm

I still disagree with showing footage of bodies being bulldozed. Their simply was no need for that- that is going overboard. The networks should have been more responsible, or CNN at least since they were the ones who showed it.

Like I said earlier, showing dead bodies is one thing- but showing them being treated in such an inhumane way is a little too much.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/29/2004, 6:44 pm

I'm not sure what was shown in the US, but what I saw on tv was bodies already in the graves but being then being filled in with the bulldozers. It gets the point across without being too much I think. Personally I found it much more upsetting this morning when I opened up my newspaper to find a picture of a beach with a line of bodies all washed up on the high tide line. Not that I think that shouldn't have been published though.

Long Jonny · Post by **Long Jonny** » 12/29/2004, 8:40 pm

Well, on CNN they actually showed the bulldozer bulldozing the bodies into the grave. It was a bit much.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/29/2004, 10:46 pm

Yeah, that's way over the line of decency and respect. Like I said before (I think? If I didn't, I meant to), if this had happened here or in Canada or England or any other country with a similar culture, they'd never ever be showing that stuff. It's like because these people are different from us, they're no longer human and they can show these horrible images on tv. :neutral:

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 12/29/2004, 10:49 pm

It's sick. Only way to describe it.

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 12/29/2004, 10:52 pm

Yeah, its just desensitizing everyone, all over again. What they need to show is people crying out in grief as their loved ones are found dead. If the human side of people dealing with it is shown, there will probably be a bigger appeal, because you can put yourself in their shoes. Imagine if you son was handed to you dead, only 4 years old. Stuff like that works better, and isnt disrespectful to the dead.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/29/2004, 10:55 pm

I couldn't agree more.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 12/29/2004, 10:56 pm

Well said.

SpiritualJunkie · Post by **SpiritualJunkie** » 12/30/2004, 2:46 am

I totally agree.

Seeing people mourning and screaming for loves ones gets me more emotionally sympathetic than seeing bodies being rolled around like trash. I wish they'd stop doing that.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 12/30/2004, 9:31 am

116,000

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 12/30/2004, 10:09 am

120,000

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/30/2004, 10:29 am

It looks like they still don't have a realistic number from Burma either. Apparently the military government there has a long history of covering up disasters and this morning they were saying that only 30 people had died while experts are saying they'd expect the numbers there to be about the same as in Thailand (which is well over 2,000). I'd image that since they're trying to cover things up and not asking for aid then it could be even higher than that as people aren't getting the help that they need.

I just feel so helpless. Agghhhhh

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 12/30/2004, 10:58 am

Soozy,

I don't know about anywhere else but the papers here have been sjhowing the bodies covered up along stretches of beach with some sheets over them or some trucks with the bodies.. The have shown mostly the anguish in people's faces and the horror of the aftermath.

They will never truly know just how many lives were lost cause they say that so many remote islands were wiped off the face of the Earth.. Plus they can't really know how many tourist were in the areas. Bodies will be washing up for weeks.

Things like this do make us feel helpless cause you want to do something, but don't know what. Besides sending money or some other form of help..

IT is times like this that makes you truly realize just how precious life is and how easily it can be taken..

all we can do is pray for those who still suffer from this horror..

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 12/30/2004, 1:12 pm

I think showing bulldozers is a bit far, but showing bodies or rows of coffins is necessary to display the significance of the event.

Some stations are reporting 125,000 right now. Its hard to say where this toll will stop as there is still a lot of debris and some remote areas that may not have been reached yet by aid workers. It really makes you realize how petty some of our problems really are.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/30/2004, 1:24 pm

J-Neli wrote:It really makes you realize how petty some of our problems really are.

The Omissions of the Omen lyric 'somwhere around the world someone would love to have my first world problems' keeps going around my head today.

There was a guy in my newspaper today who came over here from I think Sri Lanka to make a new life for himself and support his family and it looks like all of the rest of his family and his wife's family have died - which is about 200 people!