Jarida lililochapisha picha za marehemu Whitney Houston lashambuliwa

The National Enquirer is under fire for posting a photo of Whitney Houston in an open casket at her funeral on the cover of this week's issue, along with the words "Whitney: The Last Photo! Inside Her Private Viewing."

In addition to many users on Twitter and Facebook lashing out at the tabloid for the cover, some websites have taken issue with the choice.

Perez Hilton has called the move "exploitation." A writer for the site proclaims, "We find it rather tasteless and crude. We just want to wish poor Whitney peace and her family all the time they need to grieve."

While we won't show the image here, the National Enquirer has run a photo of Whitney Houston in her casket on its cover.

Meanwhile the site Gossip Cop is equally unimpressed, writing, "The National Enquirer frequently sets the bar very, very low.

But the tabloid really crossed the line this week when it decided to publish a cover story featuring a photo of Whitney Houston in an open casket at the Whigham Funeral Home in New Jersey before her burial last weekend."

The website Daily Caller similarly opined, "Running an image of Whitney Houston’s lifeless body on the cover is pretty par for the course for The National Enquirer, but it’s still a bit much."

The Enquirer has not revealed how, or from whom, it received the photos.

It is not the first time the magazine has splashed a controversial photo of a deceased celebrity on its cover.

Last week, the tabloid's cover line read, "Whitney's Final Minutes." Underneath, a woman resembling Houston was laid out on the floor, face down, in a hotel bathroom in what was described as a "photo re-creation" of Houston's death scene.

In 1977, the National Enquirer infamously ran a photo of Elvis Presley on view in his casket. There years later, it did the same following John Lennon's assassination.