A Thai newspaper has just made grieving more painful for actor David Carradine's family, said Jane H. Furse in the New York Daily News. Carradine—star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films—was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. As questions swirled around Carradine's mysterious death, the newspaper, Thai Rath, published a photo of Carradine's body hanging naked in a hotel closet.
"Due to the circumstances of David Carradine’s death," said Stuart Heritage in Hecklerspray, "dignity isn’t exactly in ready supply right now." But it was bad enough when people everywhere felt entitled to speculate about whether Carradine committed suicide, or was murdered, or died in an auto-erotic asphyxiation act gone wrong. Publishing David Carradine's death photo "shows an absurd lack of respect."
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