User talk:DaneMaree

Am I the only person in the world who feels that forensic science is cheap television?

I help out at schools, and have been bemused by little girls of the 9 - 10 age group confiding that they want to be a 'forensic scientist'when they grow up!

No longer do they want to be a nurse or a doctor to help people. Now they want to be a smart aleck with an studied callous attitude. N.C.I.S. Abby has made death look like such cool fun!

I was taught to treat the dead with respect when I trained as a nurse in the late 60's. It was respect to keep the body covered to protect the person's dignity. It was a duty to treat the corpse correctly. I shudder to think what happens now.

Lip service is paid to the dignity of human life but real artistry is reserved for the gory visual details of death.

The children were honestly wide eyed and startled when I questioned if they really wanted to work with cold and smelly dead bodies to earn a living? Feeling sorry for their confusion, I applauded their choice of dead bodies as a career over live ones because they were probably less trouble; not likely to sue them ;)

Anyway, I reasoned that if they have had death voyerism presented to them so that it seems a desirable and glamourous occupation at the grand old age of 10, a few practical observations should not unduly traumatise these same children.

I say again that this is cheap and low entertainment, pandering to degraded 'manure' senses and corrupting small and curious minds.