Have you ever seen a dead person. I do not mean in a morgue but I mean someone that s

AMKC

Was shot or stabbed etc?
How did it affect you?
I have not thankfully only in a morgue or a funeral home have I seen one.

Thomas..

Yes someone close

Thomas..

Thomas.. wrote: »

Yes someone close

Think I had PTSD after that's it

PsychoPete

Aroused

SpencerJC

AMKC wrote: »

Was shot or stabbed etc?
How did it affect you?
I have not thankfully only in a morgue or a funeral home have I seen one.

I played golf once with a man who had a heart attack and died.

Thomas..

PsychoPete wrote: »

Aroused

This is so wrong but it feels so right

Thomas..

SpencerJC wrote: »

I played golf once with a man who had a heart attack and died.

While playing golf?

SpencerJC

Thomas.. wrote: »

While playing golf?

Yeah just walking down one of the holes and he fell over. I was only about 12 and didn't really grasp the gravity of it at the time.

banie01

More than I care to remember.
But that rarely stops me

Thomas..

SpencerJC wrote: »

Yeah just walking down one of the holes and he fell over. I was only about 12 and didn't really grasp the gravity of it at the time.

Gravity doesn't normally cause that to happen

Anyhow I'm sorry to hear that

screamer

I never did, but when I was a child another local child a bit older than me died. There was a school photo that the family wanted, so as I knew where this child lived, I was dispatched to deliver it. When I got there, instead of take it off me they brought me into the wake room and there was the dead child in it’s bed surrounded with all sorts of toys. I was only 8 and that was the first dead person I’d seen, and I had no parents or anything with me. I can still see that dead child in it’s bed laid out.

D3V!L

I found a dead guy in the toilets in Dunkin Donuts when I was younger. More recently my dad when he passed away. He didn't look like my dad anymore though.

corner of hells

Worked on good a few overdoses, preformed CPR a good few times with some surviving others being declared dead.Found a few deceased too , all through work.

Seen a few. Result of suicide, murder and natural causes. Performed cpr twice, I have a 50% success rate.

All adults so I don't think it really effected me that much. The first one was a suicide, that stayed with me a while but I was ok.

No thankfully I haven't. Of course I have been to wakes and seen the deceased person there but I imagine it's quite a different experience. Even wakes for me are difficult. So strange to reconcile the person you know, a living breathing human, with the dead body in the coffin

andekwarhola

Yeah. Traffic accident involving a cyclist. Must be pushing 27 years ago. Have never forgotten it.

Man with broke phone

How white they go never leaves ye.

It like a "this chap isnt sick hes serious moment"

Gregor Samsa

My mother died holding my hand. That was in a hospital though. It’s amazing how instantly different a dead person looks compared to a live person. You wouldn’t mistake her for being asleep. There were a few times in the run up she stopped breathing for a minute and we thought she was gone, but when it finally happened it was very distinct.

Church on Tuesday

Yes. Young boy who was hit by a lorry on his way back from the local shop. Saw him being put into a body bag while I was on a bus home from school. Not pleasant.

Mules

I've only seen people who I've been with in hospitals, nursing homes, funeral parlours and wakes. I must have gone to too many removals because at this stage I mainly notice whether the undertakers have done a good job with the makeup.

Actually, I did see an old man being put in an ambulance one. He had died naturally so it wasn't unpleasant.

maccored

saw a fella lying in the middle of the road who had just been shot dead - I was probably about 12 years old and was on my way to school in the early 80s. Its something that still pops into my head. I never realised how thick blood was. The RUC were covering him up as they had just got there.

daheff

Yer all dead to me

is_that_so

Saw someone who had jumped in front of a train, well the legs only were uncovered, very unsettling.

amadangomor

My father was part of a search party that found a neighbour who had drowned on a large lake. Him and a couple others in the boat found him and brought the body to shore.

The body was in the lake for a week or so so wouldn't have been a good sight. Definitely affected him.

StereoSound

My mother died as we waited for the ambulance, Nothing I could do, she had some sort of heart related failure. I knew she was dead when her eyes stayed open and she didn't respond to me anymore. Last thing she said to me was that she was fine and maybe 15 seconds later she left. I remember she turned white as a sheet only minutes later. It's though to deal with. When the ambulance arrived they attempted to revive her but she had no hope really. At least she didn't die alone and glad I was with her despite how hard it was watching her last moments.

crossmolinalad

Twice
one with a Gas explosion in a caravan and another seen burn to dead after ex husband set the house on fire not knowing his ex wife was inside the house
running in full flames out of the house and burned to dead on the lawn
We could do nothing for her

B.A._Baracus

My dad said he saw the aftermath of someone jumping from Ballymun flats years ago.

He was in work by said flats one day and hears a massive thud noise. Him and a few of the others go around to see what the noise was and sees some guy laying on the pavement with blood coming out of his ears etc. Not a pretty sight I am sure. It must have stuck with him for a bit.

Said it didn't appear on rte news or anything. He chalked it up to it not being the first time someone had done it (as he heard of others doing it) and not something you want to promote. Messed up huh.

StereoSound

crossmolinalad wrote: »

Twice
one with a Gas explosion in a caravan and another seen burn to dead after ex husband set the house on fire not knowing his ex wife was inside the house
running in full flames out of the house and burned to dead on the lawn
We could do nothing for her

Your joking....

Muppet Man

When I was about 20 I arrived at the scene of a Car accident before emergency services had arrived (I wasnt involved in the accident). Two fatalities on scene and one died later in hospital. It was utterly chaotic and horrific. 30 years later I often think about it when Im driving, especially overtaking.

ec18

once during a search and rescue for missing fisherman.....had been in the sea for 5/6 days....Took a good while before could stop seeing it randomly

s1ippy

I saw a man get hit by a bus when he was crossing the road. Coincidentally just up the street from there, a saw a man jump off the bridge into the river. Also saved three people from jumping in that same spot. I've talked six strangers out of suicide around Cork's waterways in the past four years.

Effects

I collected a four day old dead body from a garage in Finglas once.
Weirdest part was when we moved the body and the eyes looked straight into my own eyes.

eviltwin

Was one of the first on the scene of a fatal car accident, the deceased was on the ground and it was a gruesome enough scene.

Also found a guy who I thought was dead - he was lying in undergrowth and not moving - but turned out he was alive just badly hurt.

Igotadose

1980.Landlady loudly knocking at the adjoining apartment. Amiable old guy Bill lived there, bit of a drunk. Stick my head out, she's fumbling with the lock. Asks me if I'd seen him lately, nope. She walks in, I follow. Found Bill on the floor with a bedsheet around him. Covered in blood. I blurt out, "He's here. He's dead"

Landlady starts to lose it, I tell her to calm down call police who arrived quickly, took story Bill and left.

About 3 years later I'm house hunting on the other side of the ,US, knock on a door to look at the house. Guy that came to the door looked JUST like Bill. Freaky

Apiarist

Yes, my friend and I had to pull out from the water a young man who drowned in a fishing accident. We actually saw him alive and talked to him briefly the night before. This was before we had mobile phone reception everywhere, so my friend had to go to fetch the ambulance while I stayed with the dead man, just out of respect. This was not very disturbing, since that was an accident, but it was a very sad incident nonetheless.

Gregor Samsa

s1ippy wrote: »

I've talked six strangers out of suicide around Cork's waterways in the past four years.

Fair play to you.

A guy I know started a new job in Limerick a couple of years ago. First day, he's sitting at his desk looking out the window, and next thing he sees someone jumping into the Shannon. He jumped up and shouted to his colleagues, and called 999.

His colleagues told him it happens all the time, and that from that particular spot, they get washed down the river a bit to a shallow spot at the edge and survive. But that if you see someone jump from a different spot a bit up, they have no hope. Sure enough, the rescue team promptly arrived a picked him out of the shallow spot y mentioned unharmed.

First 4 months he saw 3 people jumping in the same spot.

Feisar

screamer wrote: »

I never did, but when I was a child another local child a bit older than me died. There was a school photo that the family wanted, so as I knew where this child lived, I was dispatched to deliver it. When I got there, instead of take it off me they brought me into the wake room and there was the dead child in it’s bed surrounded with all sorts of toys. I was only 8 and that was the first dead person I’d seen, and I had no parents or anything with me. I can still see that dead child in it’s bed laid out.

Nothing worse than a young persons wake. The first one I was at was of a son of a friend of my Dad's. I drove us the two hours, we went in, shook hands and left. As my Dad said, "fúck all we can do for those people".

bear1

Yeah, I went for a drive with my now fiancée.
Traffic appeared out of nowhere with all of us being rerouted to a side road which was just perpendicular to the main road.
I spotted the body first and told me partner to cover her eyes.
She must have been an early teenager, sprawled out on the road and her friends hysterical next to her.
She had ran a red light with her bike and a car took her out.
I felt such pity for the driver.
I'll never forget that image.

o1s1n

Quite a few times in South Africa on my trips over there unfortunately.

Worst was a guy on a motorbike. We were driving down a highway and he overtook us at insane speed. I actually said something along the lines of '****ing idiot is going to get killed driving like that' to the other people in my car.

When we got to the next intersection about 10 seconds later his bike was lying in a mangled wreak on the ground, helmet was beside it, 20-30 feet on was a contorted knot resembling a human being, eyes wide open staring back..

Haunting stuff tbh and does stay with you.

AndrewJRenko

bear1 wrote: »

Yeah, I went for a drive with my now fiancée.
Traffic appeared out of nowhere with all of us being rerouted to a side road which was just perpendicular to the main road.
I spotted the body first and told me partner to cover her eyes.
She must have been an early teenager, sprawled out on the road and her friends hysterical next to her.
She had ran a red light with her bike and a car took her out.
I felt such pity for the driver.
I'll never forget that image.

Where did this happen, can I ask?

bear1

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Where did this happen, can I ask?

Warsaw, specifically the road that connects the city to Modlin airport.
It's atrocious as a road, you've got a dual carriageway with pedestrian crossings on which is badly lit at night.

AlphaDelta1

Seen a woman get crushed to death under a Dublin Bus in Dundrum whilst riding her bicycle when i was only 11. Couldn't get the image out of my head for years. The thing that has always stuck with me though was as i made my way back out of town past Dundrum some 2hrs later the scene of the accident was completely cleaned up and everyone was going about their day as if nothing had ever occurred. No bus still on scene, no Gardai, no area cordoned off etc.. nothing just every day life.

wexandproud

have recovered 2 bodies from the water after drownings . One was 3 weeks in the water and was not nice at all the other was only after a few hours but was still a terrible thing to have to do I still think about it as i drive past the graveyard where he's buried most days of the week
was just tying up a boat one day and a guy jumped off a nearby bridge . threw off the ropes and went as fast as i could to where he was in the water and got to within about 6 feet of him before he slipped under for the last time that haunted me for a long time . somebody recovered his body a couple of days later.
on a slightly different note there is a book written by an x member of the garda underwater unit and its a good read and an interesting insight to a terrible job .

.anon.

Around 19 or 20 years ago, I saw the immediate aftermath of a fatal accident involving a cyclist and a truck at the corner of Westmoreland Street and Aston Quay. She was crushed under one of the wheels. It was a horrible scene.

eviltwin

.anon. wrote: »

Around 19 or 20 years ago, I saw the immediate aftermath of a fatal accident involving a cyclist and a truck at the corner of Westmoreland Street and Aston Quay. She was crushed under one of the wheels. It was a horrible scene.

I know the girl you are talking about, she was one of our clients at the time. A lovely girl and a huge loss. She had a horrific death

screamer

Feisar wrote: »

Nothing worse than a young persons wake. The first one I was at was of a son of a friend of my Dad's. I drove us the two hours, we went in, shook hands and left. As my Dad said, "fúck all we can do for those people".

Indeed, I was only 8 at the time, so I certainly couldn’t help them.

tayto lover

Lost two good friends in a car crash I was involved in. They had to cut me out.
I also cut a neighbour down from a tree where he had hanged himself.

bmc58

AMKC wrote: »

Was shot or stabbed etc?
How did it affect you?
I have not thankfully only in a morgue or a funeral home have I seen one.

No thankfully not.And I have no wish to see anyone in such a situation.

punisher5112

Mum died when we were young enough, grandad and granny, friends of mum died, friends parent, found neighbour dead in their bed, when we were kids a man died in the snow just across the road on the path, guy died on bus I was driving but he was alive when I found him but died shortly after.

The Royal Scam

I was driving home from work one evening and saw 2 people pulling and struggling to lift someone from a river weir in a large rural town. In the matter of the 5 second image I can still remember it so vividly and in particular how blue the skin seemed to be.
I found out the day after it was a lad of 17 who had struggled with mental health and had thrown himself off the bridge beside it about 10 mins previously and sadly died.
Still think of it after 10 yrs the odd time and especially every time I pass through again.

punisher5112

AlphaDelta1 wrote: »

Seen a woman get crushed to death under a Dublin Bus in Dundrum whilst riding her bicycle when i was only 11. Couldn't get the image out of my head for years. The thing that has always stuck with me though was as i made my way back out of town past Dundrum some 2hrs later the scene of the accident was completely cleaned up and everyone was going about their day as if nothing had ever occurred. No bus still on scene, no Gardai, no area cordoned off etc.. nothing just every day life.

I believe that was a truck I knew the dad.