I feel like're getting so detached from one of the most basic and true parts of human life, thanks to algorithms and advertisers: death.

Most of us don't have a real sense of what it means to actually get shot, bombed, starved, or whatever else. Pictures and videos have been scrubbed from the "mainstream" internet, and if you're reading this you're most likely privileged enough to be living in a "civilised country" and not see it on a regular basis, especially the gory kind. In my opinion /r/watchpeopledie was a great service to the internet. It was a very real memento mori, a sobering moment of breaking out of the everyday numbness that really burned into your brain - shit does happen. In boring, unexpected, quick, violent ways. It really gave a new meaning to "live your life like every day could be your last" for me.

Maybe, if people actually imagined what their child could see looking at their dead best friend laying on the ground next to them, they would take gun control more seriously. Instead they're getting terror drills, armed drones and a school ready to be turned into a battlefield.

If the elementary school children need to deal with it, we should be able to stomach it too.