Have you ever seen a dead body? *POLL*

[Ralph Wiggum]

A guy died in the front passenger seat of my parents car while I was in the back and my dad was driving.

[thicky]

Heard a loud crash outside my house at 4 am. Ran outside, some dude NAILED a tree about two houses down. Creepy as FUKK. Wheels were still spinning and stuff, smoke everywhere, creepy brah. Walked up to the dude, saw him hunched over in the drivers seat. No air bag, old ass car...well I shook and shook him thinking he just took a good whack to the head and was sleeping.

Nope.

Fukker was dead. Still creeps me out to this day.

school buddy saw something similar opposite his house one afternoon, the car had driven UP the pole and was at a 45 degree angle.

Guy turned his head and half his face fell off in front of my buddy. eeew. Was still alive.

[Sharky8975]

school buddy saw something similar opposite his house one afternoon, the car had driven UP the pole and was at a 45 degree angle.

Guy turned his head and half his face fell off in front of my buddy. eeew. Was still alive.

Yea this dude's face was screwed up. That plastic steering wheel was not nice to his face. I could see his skull in a couple places. Was really sad. Cops got there and asked if I was driving I was like wtf hell no..

[Crash49]

My father died while I was giving him CPR. It is tough trying to save your father's life in front of your wife, son, and mother. The weird thing is is that it did not have a traumatic effect on me. I'm not trying to sound cold or like a hardass, but I thought it would have taken more out of me. I went through the initial grieving phase, but it didn't last long. I am also a police officer, so I was used to seeing dead bodies, and witnessing families go through those tuff times.

[Fairy.]

I once saw my cat dying it was having a fit.

[moodymikey]

I was leaving from kickboxing and walking between two towers. I saw someone lying on the floor and went over and there was blood everywhere. Turned out the guy had jumped from the top of one of the buildings and obviously died. Was easily the most horrible thing I have ever seen

[harrisjl]

A man washing windows @ the building I work @ electrocuted himself a few years back.... He backed into a power line with one of those long squeegies....

[Onebadgtx]

My best friend hit a bump and lost control of his snowmobile and hit a tree... I went to get help and by the time I got back he was laying there dead in his father's arms. Pretty difficult for me - my best friend since I was a kid was taken from me in an instant. It also gave me a greater respect for how precious life really is.

[A_Hard_Rain]

Been to lots of open casket funerals. Didn't make me feel any different, just wanted to get out of there tbh

[ZzW3iZ]

3 nonfuneral setting, 5 all together

[The_Reaper]

Well... at funerals, if that counts?

I once witnessed a horrific car crash and I was convinced the guy was dead, but in the end, he somehow survived.

[RavenStorm]

IRL? No.

On the internet? Of course. If you don't see dead bodies on the internet, you're doin' it wrong.

[venacava]

I have seen cadavers ( yes med school) (no homo) (no necro).

[BrainSlayer]

I was at work at a gasstation and there was a Drug deal gone bad in the parking lot, the Buyer shot the dealer in the eye,neck and chest and took his bag of weed. The Dealers Friend(driver) took off running to my working place as he was being shot at(good thing my work glass is bullet proof!!!) that guy got shot in his back,arms and leg but lived. It looked like some one squirted Ketchup on his shirt, blood was kinda thick I think.

A week before this, those same guys went to a known drug house and shot some guy in the garage,right after he asked them "hey isn't it too early for Halloween" (this was one week before Halloween and they wore masks to try and rip off the dealers)

[mrawdtsi]

I've seen many. The worst was a young family, in a car accident. A drunk driver broadsided them at over 60mph, flipping the minivan.... None survived.

im a Firefighter/EMT-B so I've seen a lot..

[Eskimo]

yes, im an army medic.

seen from 8 months old to 50+

the funniest was prob when we had a person with brain threw nose and we were eating lunch while we were having the body xray'd. yes morbid.
xray tech was eating chicken fingers, me and a corpsmen were eating sandwhiches. new medics that havent seen a dead body before kept coming in ang gagging.

[BrainSlayer]

my friend lived in a super cheap building,looked like a crack house for $120 a month(including water/electricity) two story building, and when we had to use the bathroom(community shared) we had to go down a hole in the floor by climbing down a ladder, we take a Baseball bat with us(lot of crazy druggies lol), and below was a long hallway lined with couple more tiny rooms people lived in, one of them was occupied by a bum bag lady. no one seen her come out for 5 days & stench was emanating from her room, when they finally checked on her she was dead, some one raped and killed her, she looked like a mummy with sunken eyes,naked, & shriveled skin,bony ribs popping out.

[skinnyboipgh]

Yea, open casket funerals of friends & relatives. Saw a motorcyclist get killed on the freeway once too.

[bassing68]

A guy died in the front passenger seat of my parents car while I was in the back and my dad was driving.

I would have said, "damn dad! You scared him to death."

[RxPeter]

I voted no, cuz i didn't think funerals counted.

[Whey Hey]

Yeah my dad at the morgue when i was 13, cold as ice.. not a nice feeling to remember, but yes, ive seen a dead body..

[FMCMuscle]

Actually saw a guy die on a store front a few years ago. Didn't phase me at all. I think lots of CoD has totally desensitized me..

[Julius25]

ahh, In USA you cremate just the body, amitrite? in UK, it's mandatory to put the body + coffin into the furnace. (people tend to get a cheap one)m so I guess you don't see that stuff here.

Well you can put the coffin in if it's made from wood, the metal ones we had to take the body out of it and discard them.

[Paramaybe]

I was an EMT before what I do now while I was in school.
I've seen more tragedy and carnage than 90% of people.

I've unfortunately seen many, many people of all ages die.

[ilikebeer]

I see them all the time as a student doctor. The fat ones are funny lol.

negged

[IceDragon]

Watched my dad die from prostate cancer.

I'll never forget that f*cking death rattle everyone talks about, it's awful, but you know it when you hear it.

[dave.mc]

Saw the body of a guy that had jumped off a building the saturday just gone. Did it in broad daylight in a very busy part of town. Was a very surreal and sad experience

[bassing68]

negged

Why negged. Those of you who do not or have not had to deal with it just don't realize how crucial it is to dehumanise it.

Watched my dad die from prostate cancer.

I'll never forget that f*cking death rattle everyone talks about, it's awful, but you know it when you hear it.

No, you won't forget it. I heard it in many patients as well as my grandmother and dad. It is much more impacting when it is your family.

[miscdoctor]

negged

Why did you negg me?

If I went and cried about every cadaver or freshly dead body that I saw, I'd be mentally scarred and have dropped out of Med. Unless you learn to take it in your stride, which often means having a laugh with your colleagues, I doubt anyone would get through. It's how you desensitise yourself. Don't negg out of ignorance.

[ChicagoCubz]

On TV, at funerals, cadavers.