Poll of the Day > Have you ever seen a dead body?

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Was it unsettling?

Yes and yes

Yes multiple times, including a person and 2 pets die in front of me, and yes it is

More or less, my dad kinda passed away in my car, not technically for a few more hours while the doctors were trying to revive him but by that point it was pretty much over

Watched my grandma die

wasnt the best thing that ever happened to me

Few too many.
Including 2 headless people in a van

SinisterSlay posted...

Few too many.
Including 2 headless people in a van

Are you sure they were dead?

Do dead people in coffins count?

Mystery_man2 posted...

Do dead people in coffins count?

This. The only dead person I've seen was in an open casket funeral for someone I didn't know. All of my family that has died was cremated so I never actually saw their non-living body.

Seen plenty of dead animals, though. Roadkill is extremely common here. Worst though was seeing a dead puppy on a median, and having to personally kill a baby mouse that my pet gecko couldn't quite eat properly.

Mystery_man2 posted...

Do dead people in coffins count?

Yeah every funeral I've been to has been open casket

MICHALECOLE posted...

Are you sure they were dead?

Pretty sure.
The top of the van was ripped off, their heads with it. It was on the side of the road and they hadn't cleaned it up yet, so it was very visible as we all had to drive slowly by.

Yes, I've been to multiple funerals.

I also basically watched my dad die in the hospital when he flatlined. And then I had to stand there while my mother was basically breaking down and one of the nurses had to come over and ask us "Hey, do you want us to keep trying to resuscitate him, because there's almost no chance it's going to work and even if it does we're probably going to break his ribs", so that was totally awesome and not psychologically scarring in any way.

Fortunately (?), I missed my mother dying because she died early in the morning a few hours after I moved her into hospice. Though arguably in that case it was kind of worse than watching her die, because beforehand when they took her off the ventilator she was on, but before the morphine drip kicked in, I got to have the wonderful experience of watching her gasping for breath and begging for help because she didn't understand what was happening. And again, totally awesome and not psychologically scarring in any way, and I certainly didn't have to leave the hospital before I just completely broke down weeping and then go home and get really, really drunk that night.

But hey, at least her ashes aren't currently sitting in a box in my closet. Oh wait, they are.

Good thing I was raised by a family with a long line of stoic men who view emotions as weakness so I could totally suck all that up and internalize it and lock it away and just never process it in any meaningful way. I'm sure that will never have any negative consequences.



FrozenBananas posted...

Yes multiple times, including a person and 2 pets die in front of me, and yes it is

If we're counting pets, I basically had to sit with my dog when we had to put her down, and just slowly pet her to keep her calm when she started to slowly go to sleep, and that certainly wasn't one of the three worst moments of my life either (oh wait, it totally was).

About the only positive there is that it happened at the vet and we kind of knew going in that it was going to happen, and it was because her quality of life was just falling apart after she'd lived a long life. A friend of mine had his cat literally curl up on his lap while he was playing games online and just sort of mewed at him a bit and just died (though he kind of knew that was the end while it was happening as well). it kind of messed him up for a while.

Just one. My friend passed from a spontaneous heart problem at age 19 (had no previous issues), very sad and a bit scary.

Excluding funerals, I may have seen one a few weeks ago. I was walking to work early in the morning, and behind a car wash I saw a bunch of junkies acting frantic, huddled around one guy who was motionless on the ground. Just a few seconds after I passed them an ambulance passed me headed in their direction.

Do you like it premeditated or in self defense.

You know all the more to have another reason to like tiktok and reddit more because of it's grading system and disapproval of topics the op thought would get likes. Gamefaqs is a different 'beast' in itself when it comes to disapproval. Check out the nerd in glasses that was calling random guy a virgin on the streets and Joey Swoll calling him out saying he didn't get the comments of approval he wanted, jk. Okay bash away.

Please can you not throw shade anymore, jk. I hope you don't have beef with anyone.

And cmon man, people always mocking someone's intelligence being similar to a high school kid. I see that a lot. Cmon man, I'm not that immature.

Watched my dad die after he came off life support, then saw his body again when I verified that it was him prior to his cremation because my mother couldn't stand to do it. I've also seen a few cadavers in the context of anatomy labs, though that's a little different. Also two pets.

Yeah it was part of my job to bag them if they died on unit when I worked in a hospital

Yes, at family funerals.

Yes, many funerals.

Also, had to dissect a cadaver in anatomy class. That took me a while to get my head around and shake off the trauma of it.

Humans, no, but if we're counting pets, two have died nearby but out of my view (one, a budgie, my partner was carrying her to the car when she passed; the other, a cockatiel, he was in the backseat on the way to the vet and didn't make it there) and a third (another cockatiel) died literally right in front of me (she was clearly not well, so I was holding her, and then she just suddenly went crazy, attempted to fly but just collapsed onto the ground, fluttered around a little bit then stopped and she was gone).

Also if we're just counting animals in general, plenty of roadkill, and a few rodents caught in traps.

I saw my MIL and my grandfather pass away and I got there minutes after my FIL passed. The first was heart failure in a hospital post surgery, the second two were cancer, so none were really unexpected so I don't think unsettling is the word I would use to describe any of them. Surreal might be better. Or heartbreaking.

Yep...

Last year a guy was flying down the highway at 150 mph on a motorcycle, and hit a van broadside that was turning left and crossing his lane. Happened right outside my house - I heard it happen and saw it seconds later.

Most unsettling thing was, he'd been drag-racing a family member who then pulled off to the easement and ran up to the scene. That gutteral screech...

Loads. I once had a job where I used to see several bodies per week. Did that for a couple of years. Also saw a few in my time as a police officer. None of those really shook me.

However, I did discover one of my friends hanging from his gym equipment, and that one has always stuck with me.

Econometrician posted...

Do you like it premeditated or in self defense.

Econometrician posted...

You know all the more to have another reason to like tiktok and reddit more because of it's grading system and disapproval of topics the op thought would get likes. Gamefaqs is a different 'beast' in itself when it comes to disapproval. Check out the nerd in glasses that was calling random guy a virgin on the streets and Joey Swoll calling him out saying he didn't get the comments of approval he wanted, jk. Okay bash away.

Econometrician posted...

Please can you not throw shade anymore, jk. I hope you don't have beef with anyone.

Econometrician posted...

And cmon man, people always mocking someone's intelligence being similar to a high school kid. I see that a lot. Cmon man, I'm not that immature.

You okay Chief?

XenobladeX posted...

You okay Chief?

Looks like they made an oopsie and ended up in the wrong board

Salrite posted...

Looks like they made an oopsie and ended up in the wrong board

Yeah their first post was definitely meant for this topic, but somehow their other posts ended up here too.

Yes.

I am numb to that stuff.

Can't remember when I have outright seen a dead body but remember when I was 21 and the person in the apartment above me fell down the stairs and landed right outside my door around 1am I actually heard it and did worry at time but thought the guy was just drunk as usual and would be fine, he wasn't found until around 11am and I couldn't even open my door as cops were right outside it taking photos.

Only at a funeral

silvergokuZ posted...

Can't remember when I have outright seen a dead body but remember when I was 21 and the person in the apartment above me fell down the stairs and landed right outside my door around 1am I actually heard it and did worry at time but thought the guy was just drunk as usual and would be fine, he wasn't found until around 11am and I couldn't even open my door as cops were right outside it taking photos.

So homie died from falling down a flight of stairs? Did he break his neck or something?

Yes and not really.

It was on a stretch of road that brings out the worst in people.

2 lane highway, one lane goes left, one lane goes right. The right lane is always busier, so you got ****heads who drive as far up on the left lane and possible and hope to merge into the right.

I've seen a van flipped over, at least a dozen multi car pile ups and unfortunately that body that was clearly launched from a vehicle.

The city's solution was to put flexible and sturdy beams between the 2 lanes leading up to the split.

Did it prevent people from being *****? Nope. Those beams eventually become hazards as they lay on the road.

A pet cat died in front of me years ago.

Been to 2 funerals, both open casket - older sister and maternal grandfather.

I see a fair amount of roadkill where I live - usually armadillo, squirrel, and the occasional raccoon.

No.

When I was a kid (I think I was 9 or 10, not sure) the neighborhood hadn't heard from a neighbor in a while and we were kind of wondering what's going on. We knocked on the door and got no answer, but they left a tiny window open and it smelled bad in there. They sent me in there because I could fit in the window and asked me to unlock the front door.

There the neighbor was, dead on the floor. They told me later that they suspected the neighbor was dead but didn't tell me until after. That's a smell you'll never forget.

People at funerals. And a pet...