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Published
This Party's Dead: a journey to seven death festivals
Anthologies
Guardian
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Literary
Sky TV
BBC
Women
How to Be Jobless
Podcast appearances
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Guardian Masterclasses
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Why can you handle watching a person die, but not a penguin?
November 8, 2016
Death
Erica Buist
Why can you handle watching a person die, but not a penguin?
Erica Buist
November 8, 2016
Death

Why can you handle watching a person die, but not a penguin?

Erica Buist
November 8, 2016
Death

Since the release of Planet Earth 2, it has emerged that the BBC decided not to show footage of penguins dying because they looked "too much like people". So why can't we handle watching a penguin die, when we see humans die on TV all the time? 

Tagged: death, deathpositive, bbc, planet earth, planet earth 2, david attenborough, penguins, police shootings

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