Whitney Houston: Now A Front Cover Pin-Up Corpse! (Or: Look At The Picture We’ve Got Of Dead Whitney)

There's nothing like a cadaver on the front cover of a magazine to really put a spring in your step, right? And the National Enquirer have done us all proud by showing Whitney Houston's corpse on the face of their magazine!

Of course, this has caused outrage from various media outlets who absolutely didn't publish Saddam Hussein's dead body in their publications. It has caused a kerfuffle amongst those who definitely didn't show the dead bodies of Colonel Gadaffi and Osama Bin Laden.

Or Elvis Presley. Or Marilyn Monroe. Or JFK. Or John Lennon. Or Kurt Cobain. Or the jumpers of the 9/11 tragedy. Or a picture of the bath in which Whitney died.

The photograph shows Whitney in an open coffin, complete with gleeful tidbits about mountains of buried jewels, her favourite purple dress and golden slippers.

Grave robbers, take note.

It seems that the photo was taken inside the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, New Jersey, where her family attended a private wake last Friday before her actual funeral.

Hands-up if you reckon Bobby Brown took it. We're not saying he did. We're saying that's what you think.

Of course, there are publications who haven't printed pictures of corpses. They've preferred to take a more thoughtful angle on Whitney's death by taking photographs of people grieving. There's nothing like being upset while someone takes a long-lens photograph of you, mid-snotbubble.

Or, in one publication's case (reprinted in a famous British right-wing paper), speculating that "Whitney's daughter Bobbi-Kristina is said to be struggling to cope in the wake of her mother's death," adding "the 18-year-old was 'wasted' and appeared 'disconnected' at Sunday's burial."

It is worth pointing out that The National Enquirer's cover photo was unauthorized and had nothing to do with the funeral home where the singer's body was prepared, according to the funeral home's owner.

Whigham Funeral Home owner, Carolyn Whigham, says:

"I'm going to answer you as the (family's) publicist told me to answer you: We have no comment. But it was not the funeral home"

And in defence of National Enquirer, publisher Mary Beth Wright told FoxNews.com she thought the cover photo was;

"beautiful"

Still, it's not like every aspect of Whitney's death was televised and covered in the press was it? Even we've shown the dead-body picture. That's because, for whatever reason, you want to see it. So stop moaning and feigning outrage you macabre ghoul you.

Join us in the cess pit. The water's lovely and unctuous.