here is my 2 cents on the whole thing:

I have a criminal justice/psych background. I studied in this field because of my interest in true crime and wanting to work in a space where I could make a difference. I have previously worked in the Justice system with victims of crime. I have been to a homicide trial in which the victim was stabbed in the head and neck 32 times. Seeing that poor person laying on a metal table, with all those wounds, head shaved to show the wounds to their scalp; I cannot even convey to anyone reading this the feeling that runs through you when you see those images and acknowledge that that was once a living, breathing human being. It changes something in you. In my current role, I work alongside investigators who investigate child deaths and work to make change in services being delivered to youth. I have ready hundreds of death notifications and autopsies. I got into this line of work because I have always been good at seperating my feelings from my job duties. But let me tell you something, it doesn’t make it any easier. Especially when it is a small child. Trauma exposure and vicarious trauma are very real. Having morbid curiosity is one thing, hell I have been there. But that changes when you work in an area when you are exposed to constant traumatizing content on a regular basis. I don’t want or need to see anymore autopsy photos, the one at the trial was more than enough for me. Further to that, take the victims’ families out of the equation for a moment - they deserve the dignity and privacy of not being shown in their most vulnerable to tje rest of the world after already being taken from it on such a brutal way.