If you think about it, mangled and/or dead bodies shouldn't be scary. We probably only evolved the fear of them because whatever did that to them could still be around to do it to you, amirite?

+135 If you think about it, mangled and/or dead bodies shouldn't be scary. We probably only evolved the fear of them because whatever did that to them could still be around to do it to you, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it's scarier because its something familiar, but unfamiliar to us because a dead body isn't the norm. I think we fear what we don't understand more

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It might also be because it reinforces the idea that life is short and a gruesome death could just as easily happen to you (at least that's what I used to think). Fortunately I eventually got over it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

however, that's a valid fear

by Anonymous 12 years ago