Filming Suicides
Filming Suicides
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"It's cool that CBS or BBC or CNN show horrible footage from massacres in Somalia or the Tsunami aftermath in Indonesia, but when a filmmaker decides to document those who take their own lives and his work is descraibed in disgust."
I'm surprised you can't see the difference Point5: reporting world events may help to raise money or awareness about a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis; making an unsolicited film about peoples' most desperate final moments is an opportunistic way to get publicity as a filmmaker, exploiting human misery for a commercial product that may lead to more death through copycat acts.