Have you ever seen a dead body?

nlgbbbblth · 08-05-2005 01:21PM

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 · 08-05-2005 02:01PM

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 · 08-05-2005 02:07PM

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 · 08-05-2005 02:53PM

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 · 08-05-2005 03:11PM

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 · 08-05-2005 05:25PM

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 · 08-05-2005 05:53PM

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 · 08-05-2005 05:56PM

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* · 08-05-2005 05:57PM

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 · 08-05-2005 05:59PM

*Angel* wrote:

Geez, that must have come as quite a shock.

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

KdjaCL · 08-05-2005 09:11PM

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

kdjac

idontknowmyname · 10-05-2005 10:11AM

I stayed with my grandad while he died in hospital

Rossonero · 10-05-2005 11:49AM

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 · 10-05-2005 02:10PM

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 · 10-05-2005 02:42PM

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

Ruffty^ · 10-05-2005 11:55PM

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 · 11-05-2005 01:06AM

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 · 11-05-2005 01:12AM

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

ToxicPaddy · 11-05-2005 01:13AM

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 · 11-05-2005 01:24AM

DadaKopf wrote:

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

Aw, that sucks man.

misswex · 11-05-2005 09:05AM

Just one, guy on a motorbike crashed into a wall at the bottom of my street. Took the doctor ages to get there and it was too late when he did, was pretty shaken about it for a while.

dondonjordan · 11-05-2005 01:13PM

On my way to work here in Holland it happens very often that the train you are on is stoppend cause someone has jumped in front of an earlier train. It pissed me off cause I was late for work but wondered what it would be like for the people who took the train that hit the guy.

Got my wish...

Going to work and I'm looking out the window and we are going through this tunnel. As we are approaching the platform I see this guy running perpendicular to the train.

He missed....

Instead of hitting the train head on he hit the window that was like 4 metres away from me. he smashed his head but the disturbing part was that he skidded like a stone on a pond along the platfom untill he hit this guy that was just standing there waiting for the train.

He died of course.

Broke both the guys legs.

Don't take the train much anymore.

juno75 · 11-05-2005 01:36PM

This thread is starting to creep me out man

Civilian_Target · 11-05-2005 07:20PM

On Christmas Eve 2003, coming down the N2 north of Monaghan, I arrived at the scene where a woman had just been hit by a fast moving car on her way to midnight mass. Cunningly she'd crossed the pitch dark road of cars moving at 60 mph wearing a black coat. She wasn't in a good way - and I there was very little anyone could do as she died in the middle of the road. Not a nice way to go.

Dead Jack · 11-05-2005 08:11PM

2, I've watched my brother die of cancer- a brain tumor, when he was almost 5 and I was 7. And I've seen the recently dead body of a friend's mother after she commited suicide.

Have you ever seen a dead body?

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