Five decades later the images of corpses, body parts and barely conscious, skeletal survivors still make a deep impact.
It was all so awful, so evil, so unlike the Tovah of recent years, of modified appetites and reduced expectations, that her corpse-body surged with something revoltingly, smearishly pleasing.
The first photos I saw were of mummified corpses — bodies shrunken, masklike faces gaping in silent horror.
The anatomist Gunther von Hagens, whose human corpse exhibition "Body Worlds" has evoked fascination and disgust, said he could not rule out having used bodies of executed Chinese prisoners for his displays.
Premier officials said the corpses and body parts were obtained from and are owned by the Dalian Medical University in China.
Syrian TV showed graphic pictures of burnt corpses and body parts on the ground, as well as gutted vehicles.
Nearly four days after the storm, police officers emerged from a bungalow on Olympia Boulevard carrying two corpses in body bags.
Eventually, we encountered a couple of local men who said they had seen some rebels removing the two corpses in body bags the day before, and we gave up searching.
As emergency workers gathered corpses and body parts into white plastic bags, the charred body of a man, his head thrown back, his skin a dark gray, still sat in a seat in the wreck.
Shrugging off recommendations from a state medical board and the Florida attorney general, this city's Museum of Science and Industry opened this educational exhibition of human corpses and body parts on Thursday, two days earlier than planned.
Post-Soviet Russian television has often been uncomfortable watching, with some editors and programme makers having few qualms about displaying grisly scenes of murder, crime and accidents, complete with corpses and body parts.
