Dear NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc: I Have Questions, and One Request

Must we really see the graphic accident that killed Georgian Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili? Isn't it bad enough to hear that someone died while training for the Olympics? If there were footage of the Alabama professors who were gunned down, would you show that as well? Or is this different because this isn't an American that was killed? If there was footage of an airplane accident and bodies flying out of the plane, would you be so compelled to show that as well? Repetitively? I don't understand.

I am disgusted, as a human being, that there are people who think it's newsworthy to see another person killed. There are people who do need to see that - such as Olympic track designers or others associated with making changes to the track so it can't happen again. However, I do not need to see this, and there are people I would hope not to see this, such as my kids, grandkids, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, neighbors, or worse yet his family, friends, and teammates.

If someone wants to see it, and that's another disgusting idea - there are actually people out there who want to see the video of someone getting in an accident and killed - all you have to do is Google "luge" to see what pops up. No surprise that in this day and age, people are not only Google-ing the luge accident, but video of it as well. Where is the humanity? It happened, you must report it, I understand that. Why do we need to see the video, over, and over, and over? That's not news, that's exploitation - selfish utilization - of something that took away someone's teammate, brother, son, cousin, and fellow human being.

It is sad and ugly truth that had to be reported. To use a disclaimer that "this may be hard to watch" is just a cop-out because not only do you show the video, you show stop action photographic images - repeatedly.

Hell yes it's hard to watch. Someone died. Had he been able to get up and walk away from it, that would have been incredible. What you are reporting is sensationalism. Shame on you. Quit showing it, please.