Have you ever seen a dead body?

[frankfrank]

I've never seen a dead body that was UNEXPECTED (I think that's what the gist of this thread is) - meaning that I don't count seeing my Mom's freshly-dead body years ago, for example. (Her death wasn't a surprise at all, at that point.) Once I did see a couple of bodybags "already filled" at a wreck site. I've never seen a dead body just lying there or anything, though.

I've also never seen anybody actually breathe their final instant. I happened to be out of the room when my mother died, and that's the closest I've come to actually seeing somebody die in real life.

 

[BlondeCanadian]

One summer a group of watergoers drowned in front of my cottage and they pulled the body out on our dock.... I wasnt very close but it was blueish and bloated

 

[Yooper]

Apparently more than my share, based on the responses above me. I've seen accidents, suicides, and found a dead body once in a construction site near our house. I kinda freaked on that one (I was 8) but Mom calmly called the Sheriff. Turned out that one was a Mob related body disposal (we were in unincorporated Cook County, IL...). I don't THINK it was Jimmy Hoffa....

I do consider myself rather fortunate that I was able to be with my Grandmother when she passed in July 2009 (really? nearly two years already?). To this day, I'm convinced she saw something just before her last breath...her face got this really confused look...something like "Well, I never expected to see THAT..."

I'd had a few beers (ok, more than a few) when 'The Call' came from the Nursing Home. I initially hesitated going there at 3 AM and quite completely over-the-limit, but went anyway. None of the nurses thought I even smelled of alcohol, and when the call came I instantly felt sobered up anyway. I wonder if I got a 'free pass'...an instant 'soberization'...I've heard it CAN happen.

 

[Ninja108]

ON tables at morgues yes. Other than that, no.

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

ON tables at morgues yes. Other than that, no.

Why and how did you sneak into a morgue? WAIT! I don't think I want to know lol

seriously that question is so stand by me-ish! I love that movie! we used to go on adventures like that when I was a lil'turd. But alas no dead bodies, unless you count the deer we discovered by some railroad tracks...that thing stunk to high heaven! ewwwie!

 

[SuperNatural]

at a funeral... but besides that no

 

[rareboy]

The death rattle is from the lungs filling up with fluid.

I sat with my mother when she died and with our closest friend last year when she died after a long struggle with cancer.

I would recommend that more people try to sit with a dying person and hold their hand. Mortality is a good teacher.

 

[wastedtime]

I was there when my father had a heart attack and died, I was 9.

 

[chillyboi]

Being here 7 years, that is a very disturbing question, quite painful for some that have seen 1

 

[blackbeltninja]

I've seen my share of bodies being dissected in anatomy classes.

I also saw one guy brought in DOA into the hospital Trauma Unit the one night I was in there, talking to a friend of mine while I was on a break from working on a kinetic/drug trial upstairs. He'd been shot in the head by a guy suspected of being in a rival gang. Turns out I might not have had the stomach to be a trauma surgeon after all, which was my initial plan for varsity.

-d-

 

[Rubber Rat]

Besides funerals, only in autopsy photos for work. Pretty grim stuff.

 

[bankside]

Other than funerals, only once; the door to the dissection lab was left open at the university as I walked by, and I saw a few corpses with anatomy students working on them.

Even that isn't really just a body discovered somewhere. Hopefully that will never happen.

 

[HugoB]

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Well, to put it bluntly: parts from a dead body.


In my horrifying gamekeeper days in Tanzania... .

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[Rex]

I've only seen one at a funeral but if I had the opportunity to see one I probably would.

 

[AlmondMilk]

I've seen cadavers on the table one time when I attended this summer program...and they pretty much dissected the body in front of us ...I guess to ready it for a funeral.

But not at a setting like those described above.

 

[HugoB]

Parts From The Past...

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....and at least the beast got his eternal punishment .

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[Sha-Rok]

Yep, When I lived in Oakland I witnessed two murders. One was a robbery the other was a Gang retaliation.

 

[godson112]

I realise this is a 'controversial' subject or whatever you want to call it, but I don't see the problem in being blunt and open.

I didn't realise so many people had seen dead bodies... We had a crash near me yesterday and apparently a motorcyclist got decapited... I imagine a lot of people would have seen that which would have been distressing.

Despite the morbid nature of the topic, a part of me wants to witness something like that, just for curiosty sake... Perhaps it'll cause me to half a self realisation.

 

[quasar]

When I temped at a hospital I often had to move bodies from the ward or A&E to the mortuary. We also had to prepare them for viewing at the mortuary chapel (codenamed 'Rose Cottage') if the funeral people hadn't collected them and family wanted to see them. This often involved combing their hair, and generally making them presentable.

 

[jaysizzles]

I've seen a few, aside from at funeral parlors.

The more interesting time, I was driving to the grocery store through a residential neighborhood and got stopped because of a commotion of people yelling and circling around a car. One person was grabbing and yelling at the driver, still inside. There was an obviously dead body sprawled atop the roof of the car. The police hadn't got there yet. I later found out that the driver had hit 2 pedestrians and kept on driving for some odd reason (shock/panic?)...the other person was several blocks away on the road (I didn't see that person.) Apparently a few of the witnesses to the hit/run chased him down to stop him.