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

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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

victor8600

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.

Signore Fancy Pants

A friend of mine hung himself when we were 12. A group of us found him.

Saw a guy who had just stood on a landmine, lost too much blood and died getting patched up. He was in bits.

A speeding car rammed into the side of a friend of mines car driving out of work on a bad bend. Car flipped down the road, died instantly. Wasnt nice to see. Had only been talking to him 10 minutes earlier.

Saw a guy after being beaten to death by a mob with sticks for stealing a mobile phone case. Body was left on the side of the road for a few days.

Saw chunks of two guys who had ****ed themselves in front of a train at different times (few years apart) in the same place.

BoroMan32

Similar story to a few on here, found an old lad who had hanged himself in some trees near the house. Had parked his bike up by the tree and done the deed some time during the night.

Very sad, and still comes to mind any time I'm walking the dog through the area.

Stovepipe

Saw: a guy jump off the Eiffel Tower when I was on a school tour. I was on the first level and he landed about 30 feet from me with a huge SPLAT! after having hit the rails above and he burst like a dropped tomato. Shook the daylights out of me and to this day, 40 years later,the sound of something being dropped can send me right back. I have also come upon two fatal road crashes where the victims were mangled. I also saw a guy being lifted out of the River lee with a fire tender's crane and he was clearly dead.

bb1234567

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

A friend of mine hung himself when we were 12. A group of us found him.

Saw a guy who had just stood on a landmine, lost too much blood and died getting patched up. He was in bits.

A speeding car rammed into the side of a friend of mines car driving out of work on a bad bend. Car flipped down the road, died instantly. Wasnt nice to see. Had only been talking to him 10 minutes earlier.

Saw a guy after being beaten to death by a mob with sticks for stealing a mobile phone case. Body was left on the side of the road for a few days.

Saw chunks of two guys who had ****ed themselves in front of a train at different times (few years apart) in the same place.

Where was this?
Same question for the landmine one

Jim2007

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.

Well bodies don’t get to the morgue on their own....

Worked for an undertakers four years while in college... RTAs, suicides, home deaths etc.

From discussions everyone seems to have the same reaction the first time they handle a dead body - shock at how cold it is. You are used to touching warm flesh, but here you’re looking at a person, but the feeling is all wrong - it’s ice cold!

Cherry Blossom

I was present when two close family members died, both from natural causes.

Aside from that I once drove past a fella who had come off his motorbike. He was sitting at the side of the road with his head in his hands, ambulance man was standing talking to him. He did not look well at all. I heard later he died at the scene. I will never forget the way he looked, he didn't have any obvious injuries to the naked eye but he must have been badly injured.

Foweva Awone

There was a homeless man I used to pass on my way into work every day sleeping in a doorway. One morning I passed and he was dead, the ambulance etc had just arrived.

Only the day before I passed him there as usual, it was a freezing cold day and I felt awful for him, so I tucked a tenner in under his blanket while he was still asleep. I felt kind of bad then, wondering if that money had gone towards something that had contributed to his death.

DellyBelly

Foweva Awone wrote: »

There was a homeless man I used to pass on my way into work every day sleeping in a doorway. One morning I passed and he was dead, the ambulance etc had just arrived.

Only the day before I passed him there as usual, it was a freezing cold day and I felt awful for him, so I tucked a tenner in under his blanket while he was still asleep. I felt kind of bad then, wondering if that money had gone towards something that had contributed to his death.

That's why I give money only to charities rather than homeless people. He probably bought the drugs that killed him with your money...not your fault though it is all on him

Loafing Oaf

punisher5112 wrote: »

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.

Wow you've had it tough.

Only one for me is my mother when they took her out of the ambulance after her fatal accident.

ShatterAlan

DellyBelly wrote: »

That's why I give money only to charities rather than homeless people. He probably bought the drugs that killed him with your money...not your fault though it is all on him

Hoe the fuck do you know he bought drugs?