Many people when then go to the movies make sure to grab a few snacks and blithely eat those treats while watching on the big screen various people die, in all sorts of ways, and really think nothing of it, because it is fictional entertainment. This also stands true for people watching television shows, to which a fictional character is killed or a dramatization of a death occurs, or a death is depicted in a hospital scene, as we eat our evening meal, talk, text, or whatever. None of that is very earth shaking, but the above has to do with situations in which the people that are dying aren't really dying in real life, no matter how realistic or not it is portrayed. However, there are plenty of documentaries and news programs in which you will view actual real people, soldiers or not, being killed or shown as dead on television, and those deaths are absolutely real, yet many people go about their business without really missing a bite of the food that they are eating and most probably still enjoying. Is this behavior somehow wrong?
The fact of the matter is that each and every day thousands upon thousands of newborns come into this world, and thousands upon thousands of those, some old, some not, some ill, some not, some expected, some not, die each and every day. So to the point, this is the circle of our physical life on earth, to which none can escape from, to which, perhaps it can be said that in this modern, western world, we have pushed the tragedy of death, to such an extent, it has become marginalized.
While it does seem somewhat strange to actually be eating while watching someone really die on television, as if this in itself, is an act of disrespect, the thing is, that in order to nourish our physical body, we must eat, and unless we change the station, or close our eyes to the reality of life, we are bound to see and learn of things that are inconvenient or uncomfortable to us, yet, the very act of eating, should perhaps be seen as a sort of defiance that we will not go quietly into the night, and that living people must eat in order to sustain their life.
It can also be said that it's good to see death, not from a sick or sadistic point of view, but instead so that we can recognize that death touches us all, rather than that death should be covered up, sanitized, and hidden far from our view. It use to be that people that succumbed to natural causes did so at home, in front of their loved ones, but nowadays so often people die instead in hospitals, often away from their loved ones, and/or medicated so much that their mind is discombobulated. While this isn't necessarily something that can be avoided or even a bad thing, as in fact hospitals, their staff, and their medicine have its place, this also isn't necessarily the right thing either.
We do need to see death, in order to better understand life, as well as to remind us that each and every day through our actions and by our words we are either living or we are dying.