Now every moment in our short lives seems to be proving legit Instagram-fodder – at least in our like-obsessed, social-media-addled brains – so death has apparently become a suitable thing to #selfie. A senior at Clements High School in Limestone County, Alabama, was on a tour around the biology department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, when she decided it would be lols to lift the sheet covering a dead body and snap a #selfie.
The girl, whose name has not been released (can you imagine the backlash?), was on an educational trip to learn about anatomical donors, and had been told to a) not bring her phone in with her and b) not lift the sheets off of any of the cadavars. But this girl was clearly prioritizing potential Instagram likes over old-fashioned social decorum, or just plain old rules. 'Our policies require discretion and respect in our human anatomy facilities,' a representative for the university hurried to say. 'No phones are allowed, no photos are to be taken, and faces of cadavers are covered. A student was made explicitly aware of these policies and breached them. This kind of disrespect is unacceptable and very disappointing. We will review our processes to ensure this does not happen again.'
Officials are now assessing the damage and going to see what disciplinary action they can give the girl in question. ‘We are speaking to the University of Alabama Birmingham, they are understandably upset with this incident and we want to preserve our relationship with the university,’ said a rep from Limestone County School Board told WHNT News. 'Therefore we are speaking to them and wanting to know how we can mend this process and keep our relationship with them, and we are in the process of deciding on the discipline that will occur.'
Eeeek. Now there’s a way to drastically lower your selfie-esteem. Sorry.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.