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Blasts publication of funeral photo

Web posted January 15, 2000

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Editor, The Chronicle

When my husband died just a few years ago, I was cloaked in grief then and I still am today. However, if I thought that someone would ever have taken a picture of me in the saddened state I was in the day of the funeral and put it on the front page of a newspaper, I believe I would have immediately found a lawyer who would assist me in suing for invasion of privacy.

Is there no mercy anymore? Is there no privacy anymore? Worst of all, I know there is no respect for human dignity anymore.

I agree with Justen Wonderly of Evans that the photo of Joshua Wilson and the accompanying caption was offensive. How dare The Chronicle delve into such a private moment of a person's life and publicize it? Death is not easily acceptable, but to make a headline of it was not newsworthy, it was appalling.

Helen P. Villasor, Augusta