Absolutely. I find volcanoes absolutely stunning in the way they can reduce humans to...well the ants that we are in comparison to their power.
But I feel sorrow for those caught in the path. When I was a teenager, my dad got orders to return to the states from the Philippines, and he and my mom took our family on a tour of Europe on the way home (courtesy of Military Air Command space available seats for all eight of us in 1971!)
We went to Pompeii, and when I saw those castings they did from the cavities created of people caught in the ash whose bodies disappeared over time leaving only the holes where they lay, it really brought it home to me.
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science Museum currently has an exhibit called Pompeii. Wife and I saw it last weekend.
Strongly recommend if you are near Pgh.