what if they weren't actually handling his corpse to stage his death.

what if his ejection seat worked a little too well and he was coming down just now

japan is a ridiculous place, but a train delay is logistically a whole problem theoretically affecting 10s of millions of people as it cascades.

this is a televised american football game of two trash teams where the broadcaster forces play to stop routinely for +15 "TV timeouts" so the folks at home to be told about a new type of bacon flavored toothpaste. the end time of an american football game has like 30-45 minutes of flex to it. there is no logistical problem with taking a delay. it is entirely a strategy to paper over it and diminish how much of a screw up it was. that dude free fell the entire height of the stadium. he didn't slip the last 20 feet and land bad, but i guarantee any mention of it will frame it that way. lots of emphasis that he didn't die on the field immediately, but instead was pronounced dead later at a facility. the way disney does when somebody gets killed at one of their theme parks.

Air-to-Surface Force

imo, it's a calculated decision by leadership. the purpose of the spectacle is to distract and deflect examination of leadership. to have this happen within the focal point of the spectacle invites examination of leadership, so it must be disregarded and the show must go on.

they don't even have the benefit of it being a moment hijacked by "terrorists" where they can create an enemy. it's just literally "this is how incompetent the people in power are. we will sacrifice our devotees for less than nothing." the longer the moment lasts the more dangerous it is.

he was treated with the gravity he deserved

Yea if you take a step back and strip it of the military context it's absolutely horrific that someone died in front of thousands of people and they still went forward with the game. So little value put on human life even in the face of such a public death.

But he was a troop and it was a troop football game so

imagine if they just dug an unmarked grave on the field next to where he landed and then rolled the turf back over it

They waited like 10 minutes. Football is more important than human life obviously