Here's one for you. While working for a newspaper back in 1978 myself and and reporter heard on the police scanner we had that there had been a accident on country road., I knew the place and the backway to get there, we arrived before the coroner, what had happened was a group of teenagers had decided to fill a chainsaw inside a closed van when one of them lit a match. I stood and watched as the five kids were brought out of the van burned beyond recognition. It was at night, the police had lights up and it painted a surreal atmosphere, I stood with my camera in hand watching as the first teen was taken out, I didn't shoot a single frame. The police officer asked me if I was going to shoot this and I told him no. The reporter was puking in the ditch. When I got back to the paper, the desk chief gave me **** for not having any pictures, I told him the story and then told him that I thought it wasn't something the paper would print, and that it was all about respect.
A dead bird on a fence, a bone in the water..............that's far from morbid. This was my first of many situations that I questioned, and decided what I believed what was the right thing to not shoot.