Have you ever seen a dead body?

KdjaCL

Yes or no?

I mean the just dead type not the ones in coffins.


I seen 5


kdjac

monaghanforsam

ive seen 1 in a coffin but that doesnt count

aphex™

KdjaC wrote:

I seen 5

What?? How?? Are you a serial killer?

Squirrel

1, but I've also seen someone attempting suicide, as in had I walked in a few seconds later the lack of air would have killed them, they had effectively passed out, does that count?

Sangre

Squirrel wrote:

1, but I've also seen someone attempting suicide, as in had I walked in a few seconds later the lack of air would have killed them, they had effectively passed out, does that count?

Obviously not but I guess you wanted to tell a story about how you're a hero.

pwd

if you hadn't saved them you could say 2.

Larianne

Could I ask what it is like to see a dead body? Not in a psycho/weirdo way. It's just I was thinking of maybe doing a embalmer apprenticeship but havent touched or even seen a dead body. I posted a thread in Work

I ain't some weirdo. I'm interested in antomy/physiology and also make-up/sculpting and prosthetics so I thought it would a be good area to get into. It's just the dead bodies I gotta get over I suppose...

Squirrel

No, I would have preferred to have not seen that, I was 10 at the time and it's not too fun. What do you want me to say, I saw someone close to me try kill themselves, but they didn't, god bless me. I still haven't been forgiven for it so I don't want to be seen as a f**king hero

Only Human

I've seen a dead body in a coffin and a dead body being pulled out of the Dodder down invetween the very back of The High School Rathgar and Mt. Carmel Hospital. That was prety disturbing. I've also the body of someone who hung themselves whilst they were still hanging from the ceiling. On that very unpleasant occassion I was 12 years old (I thinlk) on holidays in South Africa. They're like Lemmings over there.

snorlax

im a health science student and had to work on cadavras last year (about 12 of them) in my anatomy lectures!

Larianne

When I was in the States I was working with a girl who was doing Medical Prosthetics (another area I'd like to get into) and she had to examine cadavars and she said that the only way to get rid of the smell was to use toothpaste and even then you cud still get the smell. I advised her not to tell the people she was making up what she did in college.

Chad ghostal

I've seen two,
both coincidently people pulled from the lee..
one guy drove/crashed into the lee outside cork multi channel ...
saw the divers pull him and his car out, with about 100 other people and tv3 video taping the whole thing....
Saw another guy a few weeks ago get pulled out outside franciscan well..

0utshined

Yeah, I've seen loads. Thankfully not recently.

Mac daddy

" i see dead people" does that count

0utshined

Mac daddy wrote:

" i see dead people" does that count

Sure, I see dumb people. It all counts.

Pink Bunny

Yes, right after death. The worst of it is to be with someone AS they die, way worse in my opinion. I was with a very close family member the night before they died on their death bed and spent the night by his side hearing that "death rattle" they make. I think the watching someone dying part is worse than the death. Plus, the smell is of death and dying is really really bad and it takes forever to get it off of you.

stuey

I've seen two dead people. One of them I spent the whole of his last day at his bed side as he clenched my hand holding onto life. Its not something you want to do all the time. But that person was originally homeless and desperatly sick. At least he died in peace in a warm bed and with dignity

John R

4, although all but one would be more accurately described as parts of a dead body.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Nope, only on TV documentaries; people killed in wars, the horrific aftermath and mass burrials after the allied liberation of concentration camps, etc.

tman

KdjaC wrote:

Yes or no?

I mean the just dead type not the ones in coffins.


I seen 5


kdjac

should i be worried that you have my address :eek:

DrIndy

I've seen a few. Part of the job unfortunately......

We also dissect cadavers as part of our training in medicine.

pred racer

I put the telephone system in fanagans funeral home, including a phone in the embalming room, (it had to have hands free. wonder why??) while they were at work, so ive seen more than I need to!!

The Real B-man

if you wanna see dead bodys the oul www.ro...n.com is a good place scared the bejebus out of me :eek:

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The Real B-man wrote:

if you wanna see dead bodys the oul www.ro...n.com is a good place scared the bejebus out of me :eek:

Don't go to that website!! I looked at it once and felt sick afterwards.

As for dead bodies, never seen any apart from funerals. Guess i'm lucky.

D

Seen a load of partially disected cadavers in trinity medical college.

snorlax

they'rs also a museam in trinity of "dead people's bits". i was once dragged in there and never again would i go back in!

they have "bits" going back at least a hundred/2 hundred years suspended in a perserving tonics, eg cross sections of bodies etc, ugh just thinking about it, yuckk...

embee

Saw two, at the same time.

Car crash on the N2 just outside my house.They were an elderly couple, driving home from Mass. A truck ploughed into them when they were turning into their estate. They were mashed up pretty bad, not a nice sight.

KTRIC

I was in the States a couple of years ago for the summer and I seen 4 people getting shot in a bank raid.

*Angel*

I was with my Granny when she died, it's too hard to explain how I felt.

lateasever

12.................and Your Next

*Angel*

lateasever wrote:

12.................and Your Next

Good to know...

nlgbbbblth

embee wrote:

Saw two, at the same time.

Car crash on the N2 just outside my house.They were an elderly couple, driving home from Mass. A truck ploughed into them when they were turning into their estate. They were mashed up pretty bad, not a nice sight.

Not pleasant. I saw something similar a few years back. Truck completely at fault.

Let me guess - in the above case the truck driver also suffered 'shock' and 'minor injuries'. :rolleyes:

azezil

Seen a few, and was there once when an old woman took her last breath... an interesting experience, very peaceful, she'd been suffering for a long time, and finally she looked at rest.

deputydugs

Larianne wrote:

Could I ask what it is like to see a dead body? Not in a psycho/weirdo way. It's just I was thinking of maybe doing a embalmer apprenticeship but havent touched or even seen a dead body. I posted a thread in Work

I ain't some weirdo. I'm interested in antomy/physiology and also make-up/sculpting and prosthetics so I thought it would a be good area to get into. It's just the dead bodies I gotta get over I suppose...

Well as a Garda I have to ID sudden deaths. The first time was well a bit wierd but after that its get "like normal" but i would not fancy having to do it day in day out as no matter how many times you see one you always end up thinking about it for a day or so.

Nairam

Yes, but just one.
A girl jumped of the balcony in my appartment builing (yes inside the building next to the lifts).
It was pretty scarry. We didn't know who she was.
She did not live in our building.

silly

i used to work in a nursing home, so i saw a few, all peaceful deaths, they were glad to go, and i was glad for them.

Neuro

I saw 40 or 50 in Hamburg at this exhibition:

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp

I don't know if it counts though as they were all plastinated...

jonny68

I sat unknowingly beside a dead body for a few hours :eek: a few years ago one morning we were drinking in Heuston Station after a nite on the tiles(the bar there used to open @ 7am years ago)anyway we sat down and there was this auld lad,i just presumed he was sleeping,as the hours went by and the drink flowed he was still out for the count,at this stage we said we'd better try and wake him in case he needed to catch a train,anyway i tried waking him but nothing,he looked severly pale,one of the lads suggested someone call an ambulance in case..anyway one came and took him out,tried reviving him but it was too late the man was dead :eek: as you can imagine it was a shock for us,i honestly thought he was just drunk and had fallen asleep as there was a half pint in front of him..the cops asked people for a statement i just told them what had happened..have to say shook me up a little.... :eek:

Larianne

Neuro wrote:

I saw 40 or 50 in Hamburg at this exhibition:

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp

I don't know if it counts though as they were all plastinated...

Ooh, was meant to go to that while in Chicago but completely forgot. Looks really interesting!

*Angel*

jonny68 wrote:

I sat unknowingly beside a dead body for a few hours :eek: a few years ago one morning we were drinking in Heuston Station after a nite on the tiles(the bar there used to open @ 7am years ago)anyway we sat down and there was this auld lad,i just presumed he was sleeping,as the hours went by and the drink flowed he was still out for the count,at this stage we said we'd better try and wake him in case he needed to catch a train,anyway i tried waking him but nothing,he looked severly pale,one of the lads suggested someone call an ambulance in case..anyway one came and took him out,tried reviving him but it was too late the man was dead :eek: as you can imagine it was a shock for us,i honestly thought he was just drunk and had fallen asleep as there was a half pint in front of him..the cops asked people for a statement i just told them what had happened..have to say shook me up a little.... :eek:

Geez, that must have come as quite a shock.

jonny68

*Angel* wrote:

Geez, that must have come as quite a shock.

Eh just a bit....... :rolleyes:

KdjaCL

Note to self kill Tman he knows too much.
2nd note stop posting drunk and having drunken convos about dead people.


kdjac

idontknowmyname

I stayed with my grandad while he died in hospital

Rossonero

Me and friends were at the beach when we found a body. He was after falling off the cliff. I walked along the beach and came back, stopped, looked to my left, and the body was there lying on his back, his head drooped towards the sea. His eyes were wide open and facing in my direction. He was all bloated and purple.

dundealgan

Strange as it may seem I've never seen a dead body ever, not even in a coffin.

Hopefully i wont have to for a long time either!!!

Anima

Never seen one either. Don't particularly want to either

Ruffty^

I saw my granny laid out in her coffin thats it. I heard this story about some girl who was pulling out weeds from her granddads grave. It was covered is white pebble/marble things and she was standing right in the middle of the grave, when BANG the coffin collapses underground underneath her and all the dirt goes into the coffin leaving stuck up to her knees in the grave:::: pretty damn funny since she was only a kid. Good deeds always come back to bite you in the ass

Blisterman

Ive seen 2 in coffins, but only because I was early for the funeral and walked in on someone elses. Not a very nice thing to see really. But how many dead animals do you see?

DadaKopf

Twice (excluding ramdoms coffins): found my Grandad dead and saw my Mum die.

ToxicPaddy

Saw a young guy die while trapped in a car after crashing.. Fortunately he was unconscious.. but there was nothing anyone could do, a group of us tried to get him out but there was no way to get at him and the car was
on its roof..

Something I will always remember

0utshined

DadaKopf wrote:

Twice (excluding ramdoms coffins): found my Grandad dead and saw my Mum die.

Aw, that sucks man.