Father Watson wrote:
I wish you the very best in this hard time, Rick. It seems there are a massive amount of people sending out their well-wishes to this girl in her passing, and I can only hope the natural goodness of people outweighs the manufactured vitriol of the horrid types out there.
Following the dialogue here, I'm gonna stand on my soapbox for once...
I truly think it's abhorrent how we keep losing people - and a lot of horrid people on Twitter, Instagram and whatever else decide that the best response is to post the pictures of their corpse. There comes a point where you honestly have to wonder if we, as people, are getting worse - or if the cesspool of disturbed people is getting bigger.
I think, if you feel the need to share a horrific picture like that online, maybe you should think reflectively before doing so. Remember that that is someone's daughter. That is someone's best friend. That person is important to a lot of people, and every time you send out a picture like that, you're reminding them of an extremely tragic and possibly traumatic experience for them - knowing that they've lost someone who truly meant a great deal to them. But perhaps most importantly: What if that was someone in your family? What if that was your girlfriend or boyfriend? How quickly is your day going to be ruined by something like that?
I know the trolls want to think that tragedy is funny. That shock humour is the best because it evokes the most intense reactions. But I genuinely feel a great pity for you if all you can do when you see someone dead in a picture, is laugh.
It's quite worrying that being "edgy" and thinking death is cool and something to laugh at is actually popular now, I genuinely hate people.