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Posted by SpiritOfTheRabbit Jul 19th, 2012 at 10:10PM
I worked in nursing homes and hospitals for years, it became a very normal thing for me to see dead bodies.
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Posted by KingofSwords Jul 19th, 2012 at 10:08PM
Yes. Jewish tradition someone stays with the body at all times.
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Posted by JulesInBmore Jul 19th, 2012 at 10:11PM
Do you mean outside of a funeral or a wake?
Saw my dead uncle before he was cremated. His wish was to have no wake, nor funeral. He had been "refrigerated" until cremation. The body did not even look like him. I was sad because I'd lost my uncle, but not shocked nor freaked out.
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Posted by MikeWinther Jul 19th, 2012 at 10:09PM
Yes. I even Pulled a dead person out of a car when I was with police too
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Posted by silver1105 Jul 21st, 2012 at 9:38PM
More than I care to remember. The circumstances....they were terrible. And the feeling is like anxiety, depression and hopelessness combined. Your mind wants to let it all process but your body wants to evacuate. And just when you think it's under control, they will switch sides leaving you with a very UN-balanced and lasting feeling.
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Posted by StellaDiBellezza Jul 21st, 2012 at 12:14AM
I used to work at a nursing home on the night shift. There were a number of times that I happened to be the nurse aide who found someone. It was always a sad occasion, but you learn to deal with it.
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Posted by PrairieDog71 Jul 20th, 2012 at 10:13PM
Saw a neighbor carried out after he had committed suicide.
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Posted by highlander1999 Jul 20th, 2012 at 9:37PM
to many times saw kid that jumped off bridge overpass that was sad. first was when i was bout 5th grade a kid went school with drowned i went to wake that was so sad seeing him in that caskit a site i will never forget. thoses two are the most menarble.
sucks but it s all part of life. no one gets out alive!
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Posted by africasexxx Jul 20th, 2012 at 9:08PM
I saw a few of them when I was younger. That was just the type of area I lived in. At the time I was little. Now that I am an adult, and have not been around that kind of thing in years, I'm sure it would freak me out. ...It didn't then, though... o_0
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Reply by africasexxx Jul 22nd, 2012 at 3:53AM
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Posted by rickibrat2 Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:55PM
more then once and many times in combat i made my share of them
also have had to deal with a few working in ER in mylife the hardest is children to deal with
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Posted by NeoZen Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:17PM
I used to work as a field technician and a few of our customers were funeral homes. So a few time I worked in the preparation room were there would be several bodies being dressed and makeup applied. It was a surreal experience to see such care being taken on someone who could no longer feel.
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Posted by Maleinegypt Jul 20th, 2012 at 7:16PM
Several times, when burying a body in a funeral. When I was in a bus that got into an accident, I saw the driver and the guy next ti him shattered and completely void of life. Finally, when I was in the military I saw the body of a decapitated woman, from the looks of it she was raped before being murdered. These three events taught me that death is an inevitable outcome for our lives, some go peacefully and others violently, but the only common thing about these three cases was that they all were at peace. It is horrible what man can do to their brethren and how fragile life might seem in certain cases.
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Posted by WildSpectrumArts Jul 20th, 2012 at 6:35PM
Yes, several in the morgue.
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Posted by cattie18 Jul 25th, 2012 at 11:35AM
yes i see them die every day
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Posted by skoalcoldkiller Jul 24th, 2012 at 12:34AM
Yes i work in a crematorium i see around 30_40 a week kinda get use to it babies still kinda get you down but scene working there its made my fear of death go up
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Posted by FourCatsTooMany Jul 20th, 2012 at 10:35PM
Yes, my grandparents, great grandparents, lots of great aunts and uncles, my friend's dad, another friend's mom. I saw my cousin after he drowned in the Pacific ocean, was swept out to sea, and then inexplicably was returned. I saw my very good friend after she had been pulled out of a car accident. In my opinion I've seen enough. Some I've seen at the funeral, some not. If it was an elderly person I was sad but relieved in some cases because they had been ill for a long time. In the cases of my cousin and my friend, it tore pain into places I didn't even know I had. Still haven't totally come to grips with my cousin's death and it's been 14 years.
When I worked with families, I saw the bodies of several babies and toddlers who had passed away. A few had fatal conditions, and a few had been abused. That was the most wrong thing I have ever seen, those tiny little caskets.
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Posted by arkie1 Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:54PM
Many times. For the most part, viewing someone's remains is unremarkable. Their face takes on a kind of smooth, waxy appearance as the facial muscles relax and they don't move. This is before the discoloration starts.
What I have found absolutely fascinating is to be with someone at the moment of death if they are having a peaceful death. The person's focus seems to shift from the people around them and the person focuses on something else in the room, although nothing is there. In the instances I have seen, it is usually some random area high up on the wall. Their breathing slows to a stop and the gaze is then fixed and unmoving.
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Posted by tribfan Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:38PM
yes i saw a dead body on tuesday, i reacted badly.. not because he was dead but because the hospital doctors had chance to tell us he was dead but instead took us over and flung the curtain open like some sick twisted kind of game show, still angry about it now
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Posted by Experienced321 Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:37PM
too many...
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Posted by 1sweetloralei Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:33PM
yes lots of deaths in my life including both of my parents
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