Have mercy? Class?

So some big news in France right now is about the death of Chantal Sébire, who had esthesioneuroblastoma. These facial tumors seriously disfigured her face, which, in addition to the general awfulness that I imagine any terminal illness causes, would make anyone miserable. On Monday, she was refused medications to end her life, and she basically just said she'd find another way. Now she's dead.

There's an interesting difference in the French (e.g. Le Monde) v. American obits: the former show a photo of her before she became ill, and the latter, CNN, shows her near the end of her days. Let's just say there's a major shock factor. I guess the difference is that the French press has been following her story for a bit, so people have already seen pictures of her with crazy bulging eyes, etc.... but CNN's choices is pretty classless. Of course you're curious what the woman looks like, because, wow, I have never seen anything like it...but don't put it in the obituary! Or at least put both photos, because, you know, she was still human.

(An Australian news site ran a big, recent photo of her, but that was back in February, when she was still fighting the gouvernement and her tumors.)