Photos of Liam Payne’s body have emerged online
Photos of Liam Payne’s body have emerged online
Liam Payne, the former One Direction member who died on October 16 at the age of 31 after falling from the third floor of the Casa Sur hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is trending on his career, but why the photos of his corpse were published.
The photos were published by South American magazines and went around the web. All US sites censored the photo, except TMZ, which published a partial photo of the deceased singer’s body, only to delete it hours later following an avalanche of negative comments.
“Delete it immediately, it’s disrespectful!” that’s what most users write under the photos still online.
Is it right to post a photo of a dead person if this person was famous? For many, no. CNN journalist Elizabeth Wegmeister commented “whoever publishes the photo is simply disgusting.” And there are those who claim that TMZ, by publishing the photo, was only trying to get clicks and views by exploiting a deceased person.
If on the one hand the South American press has a different vision and is used to publishing this type of content without problems, on the other hand we should have respect for a dead person, whoever he may be, and for his family members and avoid circulating this online type of images.
