Me neither... I don't feel that way but I know many who do. I think it comes from the extremes involved, the finality of it. Many Vampire myths (including the original Bram Stoker) are based on the relationship between love (and by extension sex) and death, there is evidence in the language (le petit mort or the little death being a term used to describe an orgasm) and there seems to be whole subcultures that are in love with the idea of death and therefore find the idea of dying romantic/sexy/hot.

I think the concept of snuff is somewhere at the extreme ends of those subcultures, most of whom (like those who admitted as much here) would think about it and get hot at the fantasy but would never do it. They are related to each other in the same way as the blokes who nail their genitals to boards or other more extreme ends of BDSM are related to the majority of us. There is always a gradiated scale in involvement in any scene and BDSM is the perfect example. There are many in the world who consider themselves vanilla (if they knew the term) who enjoy a little light bondage and spanking and who wouldn't do most of the more extreme stuff. There are those who, like me, enjoy some of the more extreme stuff but know that there are many things I will not do (branding, piercings) and so it goes.

Now the difficult thing to establish is how many of these more extreme 'death lovers' are there really? Do any exist at all or are they just bluster and rumour? Someone who was really into this sort of thing is unlikely to admit it due to the legality involved and any who do are more than likely not telling the truth. Its like Umberto Eco's comment on Rosicrucians (read Foccault's pendulum, its a better version of the Da Vinci code) - anyone who claimed to be a Rosicrucian was probably not one because they were a secret order and no one in a secret order would be stupid enough to admit it...