While reading Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, you get to view the ideas and forms of what it's like to deal with a dead body and how it's different when seeing it in person then when in picture. Her aims, when thinking about her view on this, is to not answer questions like, “When we view photographs of war-torn bodies, piled-up corpses, or starving children, are we changed? How about the photographer, whether a professional or an amateur, who takes such pictures? Do these photographs teach us about suffering--or do they numb us over time and simply cause us to turn away?” or does she provoke us by her statements? She urges us to at least think about what happens when a person suffers in a third hand view; because she reminds us
