As I'm reading today's articles about the situation in Greece/Europe, Keynes' "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" came to mind:

We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value.

The love of money as a possession -as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life- will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

Nuh-uh - trailer wreckage is not gore/snuff. You're assuming too much, Mr. Morbid Michael Bay.

That was morbidly hilarious. This would fit right in on a reality prank show with a laugh soundtrack.

I suppose the added factor here is the misunderstanding of fire as a hazard. I would suspect most people associate it with the risk of burning (which didn't appear imminent) compared to the perhaps more dangerous risk of smoke based loss of consciousness and suffocation.

I think a more interesting title would be "Skydiver killed by meteorite while in free fall." But that might just be a tad morbid, and wrong. So let's go with "hit by" instead . . .

Otherwise, it's quite plausible for something like this to happen. We're constantly being bombarded so eventually it's bound to happen. But yeah, was hoping for more smoke and flames.

Lesson 1: Home Alone is as morbid as it is cute. Lesson 2: So is Looney Tunes, I suppose.

I love the 2004 Punisher game. I love it.
You can "interrogate" people in it, meaning you outright torture them for information or gratuitous, explicit death scenes. You can shove people into woodchippers, drill holes in their skull with a powerdrill, chromeplating heads or smash their pelvis with a prison cell door to pieces. Additionally there are four basic "interrogations" that you can do anywhere from banging peoples head open on the floor to threatening them with a gun (that goes off a lot). And that goes on top off the usuall ultraviolence you find in such first and third person shooters.
However, the game mechanics reward you for not killing people during interrogations and using them as well as the human shields tactically. I started playing for points, not mayhem. Which is really hard to do if you hide in a coffin with an M60 during a mob burial. It's nice to see the Punisher impaling people on actual Rhinos or crushing them in giant gears in Tony Starks living room but I'm playing to get the gold medal on that level, I wanna take the flamethrower to the zoo.
The game mechanics were really great and rewarded strategy and restraint with unlockable stuff. You actually became less violent in exchange for concept art and additional gear. That game is awesome.
The only thing that ever made me want to be violent was the way certain people behaved towards me or others. Games just feed my morbid sense of entertainment.

I don't think that the simple act of showing death should be all it takes for a video to be labeled "snuff." In my experience, snuff is inherently grotesque. Snuff films are made by sociopaths for sociopaths, and they really only contain a morbid gleefulness. They depict brutal deaths only for purpose of portraying brutal deaths, and are essentially murder-porn.

This video, on the other hand, is solemn. It shows tragedies, and I think it does so in a pretty tasteful way. There aren't exactly close-ups of the bodies.

Who keeps giving this guy money?

The latter part of this could easily be attributed to a shitty script. I think the whole film probably could (don't know, avoided it intentionally).
Did Shyamalan write the screenplay? I don't actually know. I do like the first Airbender show though (part of why I avoided the film).
Shyamalan was one of my favorite filmmakers, just for his vision, even when the film itself failed. I could appreciate his intent all the way through The Lady In The Water, but the nosedive of actual quality up to that point put me off of any more of his films. I can only appreciate initial vision to a point.
I've been eager to see After Earth, even if it sucks. I'm mildly interested in this film, but only for morbid reasons. Any time you dismiss source material, it makes you a shithead in my view (fuck you Peter Jackson).

"a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken"

Seriously?? What??? LOL. I hope you're not one of those!

@gorillaman

1. Morbid curiosity.

2. I think being able to distinguish ethnic backgrounds makes me a more complete individual.

Still thnk it sucks that asking a question like this has developed a racist stigma.

Whenever I see minivans, I think kids.
Does anyone else think videos like this don't belong on Videosift? Go to liveleak for your morbid fix.

wtf is this? kinda morbid.
Did you notice towards the end they also had a dead tiger there.

One of those rare *ftw AND *fail videos! Congratulations on a morbidly fascinating submission.

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