t’s not clear what we should do with dead bodies, but we certainly shouldn’t do what a 16-year-old Damien Hirst did: pose for a photograph grinning next to the corpse of a man in a Leeds morgue. The man’s face is distorted in a grimace. The young Hirst seems to be making a smiley contrast with his sad expression, a bit like the comic and tragic masks sometimes displayed above the stage in a theatre. That black-and-white photograph, entitled ‘Dead Head’, has been displayed in Tate Modern and elsewhere. Yet the man in the image had donated his body to medical science, not to be a prop in a young British artist’s, and the man’s children might well have
