When there's nothing. Everything is possible. Death is Dying.....blah blah blah....rambling by supa. During medeval times vilage squares on occasion would be used as viewing centers for executions and torture. Europe was at one time a place where bubonic plague, typhoid, small pox, and tuberculosis ran rampant. Blood and gore on exhibit was even seen during the years of the guillotine during the French Revolution. Many odd devices have been designed to inflict pain in Europe. Obviously even if the view of a corpse was not usual, the prospect of death encroached on the average life expectancy of an individual. For these reasons, the general 20th century assumption that the threshold of gore has been raised is an odd one. If you consider the fact that the 19th century was steeped in Victorian standards of hygiene, utopian city constructs, and Enlighte ned ideals, the relative heights that gore has reached may seem high but to suggest that it is the highest is far from accurate. Even more recently, the centralizing of the US government during the 1940s+ had the effect of elongating the average expectancy of an American. Maybe the image of gore is high because the relative proximity of personal death in civilized Western culture is far from possible. Maybe that is why the Towers attack have had such an effect. Maybe blah blah blah....