[Dylan16807]

Is climbing over something that happens?

For passing by, that says some about the danger of the hobby and much more about the effort of getting the body back. There's lots of common activities where you might pass by a spot someone died while doing it. Notably, driving a car nearly guarantees it.

[dhosek]

Or taking a walk. There’s an intersection two blocks from me where a pedestrian was killed in a hit and run accident shortly after I moved to town. The roadside memorial remained in place for nearly two years (I remember thinking that the people who lived in the house at the corner where the memorial was would probably like to remove it, but didn’t want to appear callous).

The worst part is that even though the intersection has been a 4-way stop for over a decade (the additional stop signs added after the hit and run), I’ve twice nearly been struck by drivers blowing the stop sign after I’ve entered the intersection as a pedestrian.

[yard2010]

I feel so frustrated about such stuff. Especially when we have the technology to make this not happen.

[notahacker]

There aren't any common activities where visible corpses serve to remind you that around 1% of participants don't make it back

[saghm]

There's a pretty stark difference been "someone died in this spot" and them still being there for you to see. Most people don't react nearly as viscerally to hearing that someone died as they do to literally seeing a corpse.

[Dylan16807]

Yeah, that's my point. That it's about the [lack of] burial rather than the actual death.

You do often see flowers put at the site of a death.