Most heartbreaking image from Bangladesh---GRAPHIC...

[one_voice]

Heartbreaking Bangladesh Factory Photo Shows Couple In Final Embrace

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A photo taken among the devastation of a collapsed Bangladesh garment factory has brought the deaths of at least 800 victims into sharp focus.

The photo, which gained initial attention on reddit, a social news website, shows two deceased victims embracing inside the collapsed factory in Savar, Bangladesh.
Taslima Akhter, the Bangladeshi photographer that took the photo, told TIME that she spent the entire day of the collapse taking pictures, and that she felt like she knew the couple from the moment she found them amid the rubble.

"I looked at who they were in their last moments as they stood together and tried to save each other — to save their beloved lives," Akhter told TIME.

Akhter is no stranger to taking photos amid devastation. In November, when a Bangladesh factory fire killed more than 100 workers, Akhter was on the scene.

“I took photos because they work dawn to dusk for very little money and their lives are considered to be so cheap, worth nothing," she told The New York Times last year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/bangladesh-final-embrace_n_3238492.html

[LiberalAndProud]

1. You can identify some photos as iconic at first glance. This is one of those.

Too heartbreaking to contemplate for too long.

[onehandle]

2. See. The future that the GOP envisions for us is not that bad.

Paul Ayn Rand Ryan's heart would be warmed.

[malaise]

3. How sad

[Triana]

4. I had posted that here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2768349

Glad to have more background & context to go with it now.

[Poll_Blind]

5. I almost never, EVER, click on messages with a GRAPHIC warning. But...

...this one I did. I don't know if I can say my life is better for it or anything like that but...I don't regret it. An image to remind us all about love, mortality and how ephemeral our lives are. Make the time on earth count.

PB

[a la izquierda]

9. Exceptionally well said.

Thank you for saying it.

[riderinthestorm]

6. K&R to remember the victims, to weep, to keep their memories alive. Such a horrific tragedy... nt

[Beacool]

7. I saw it.

It's heartbreaking. Those poor people.

[colorado_ufo]

8. Truly, rest in peace.

[LeftInTX]

10. K & R

It reminds me of Pompei

[freshwest]

11. Remembering they had just as many hopes and lives to enjoy as any of us... Tears. Huffpo comment:

heartbreaking. these poor people. no deserves this. the photo broke my heart. my thoughts and prayers to the entire country. these people mean something to all of us. we are all in this together.

I wish I could take this couple and all the others into my arms right now.