Seeing a fellow human being die.

[Phigure]

While on vacation in Belize last week, the dive boat I was on was doing a surface interval on a relatively small island that basically acts as a big hang out place for all the dive boats and such

we're having lunch on some picnic tables when a guy walks up rather casually and asked if anyone here is a doctor because they need one on one of the boats. a guy on the crew of one of the boats was freediving and took a breath from one of the divemaster's regulators at roughly 30 feet. at 30 feet this air is roughly twice as dense. one of the big rules of scuba diving is to NEVER hold your breath while ascending. the poor guy apparently didn't know this, and when came up from 30 feet, the air in his lungs doubled in volume and I guess you guys can fill in the rest

there was a nurse in our group who pretty much did everything she could, but said that when she got there he was already gone. it took them 20 minutes to get to the island, and 20 minutes is a long time to go without oxygen. he did these weird raspy breaths once or twice though, which i can only assume were death rattles or some sort of response from the body independent of the brain.


at the relatively young age of 17, i'd never seen a man die/just die and it definitely changed me quite a bit. poor guy was just 20 years old. i know its cliche, but it really reminds one of the fragility of life. seeing that lifeless body laying there, knowing that he was perfectly fine and well just 30 minutes ago has really haunted me to a certain extent.


anyone else have any similar experiences, if they dont care to share?

[wolf89]

Never seen anyone die

I was the one who found my dad's dead body though. I was five at the time

that wasn't exactly great. I get what you mean about the fragility of life to a certain extent. I feel I was definitely more aware of people's mortality than most others as I grew up. A lot of people say they thought like they were immortal when they were young. I definitely didn't

[oli90]

Never witnessed it or even a body for that matter, touch wood.

Spoke to an old school friend who's been working in a hospital as a nurse for about a year who said hes seen about 20 people go since he started there. Don't know how i'd deal with that.

[knell]

unfortunately let my morbid curiosity overtake me when i first watched that Sergei Yatzenko 3guys1hammer business...

really shook me, definitely lost sleep over it...

growing up in south africa, i saw a couple friends after they had been killed, but never saw it in action, the actual event taking place, and watching a murder is that much more wretched than seeing someone die of (semi)natural causes (imo)

really is the worst thing for me to think about

[the acid never lies]

Can't say I've seen anyone die before... I think I saw a dead body before though. They were lying in the side of the road at RIo. It was late at night so I drove right past. I wouldn't stop for anything considering the time/place.

[Phigure]

unfortunately let my morbid curiosity overtake me when i first watched that Sergei Yatzenko 3guys1hammer business...

really shook me, definitely lost sleep over it...

growing up in south africa, i saw a couple friends after they had been killed, but never saw it in action, the actual event taking place, and watching a murder is that much more wretched than seeing someone die of (semi)natural causes (imo)

really is the worst thing for me to think about

i never watched 3G1H... I know I can't handle it. Screenshots were enough to disturb me pretty heavily. the shit they did to all those animals disgusts me just as much. people like them are the reason I've lost all faith in humanity.

and yeah, the taking of a life is worse IMO too. just the fact that a person can do that to another... and all the violence associated with the taking of that life...

Never seen anyone die

I was the one who found my dad's dead body though. I was five at the time

that wasn't exactly great. I get what you mean about the fragility of life to a certain extent. I feel I was definitely more aware of people's mortality than most others as I grew up. A lot of people say they thought like they were immortal when they were young. I definitely didn't

Sorry. can't even imagine what that must be like

[knell]

i never watched 3G1H...

yeh, dont. i dont mean to tell you what to watch and what not to, im just saying that imo it's truly not worth it.

Never seen anyone die

I was the one who found my dad's dead body though. I was five at the time

that wasn't exactly great. I get what you mean about the fragility of life to a certain extent. I feel I was definitely more aware of people's mortality than most others as I grew up. A lot of people say they thought like they were immortal when they were young. I definitely didn't

wolf, really sorry man, that breaks my heart. much love.

[Phigure]

i never watched 3G1H...

yeh, dont. i dont mean to tell you what to watch and what not to, im just saying that imo it's truly not worth it.

don't worry. i wasn't planning on it anyways...

[kidshuffle]

3 guys, 1 hammer was one of the most fucked up things I'd ever seen.

I've never seen anyone die, but I've seen 5 or 6 people just about die right in front of me. I don't know whats weirder, seeing the incidents, or not feeling SUPER weirded out that I saw someone inches from dying (or death in general).

[Shum]

[Intended Malice]

3 guys, 1 hammer was one of the most fucked up things I'd ever seen.

I've never seen anyone die, but I've seen 5 or 6 people just about die right in front of me. I don't know whats weirder, seeing the incidents, or not feeling SUPER weirded out that I saw someone inches from dying (or death in general).

Yeah, same. I saw someone face down in a pool of their own blood about 5 or 6 feet away from me, my first reaction was exactly this 'huh... so I should move, right?' as I had my surfboard in my hand and not much else. From what I could gather at the time the guy had a motorcycle accident and wrecked pretty badly. Everyone was standing around in shock on the other side of the street phoning the police. I was right there and I felt nothing. I kind of felt I was in the way more than anything else, so I just kind of side stepped and kept on going on my way home.

When I got home and started to clean my board someone asked me if I saw what happened as 3 ambulances and a few cop cars were racing down there, I said 'I think their was a bike accident, some guy was a few feet away from me and not moving, he looked hurt' in a straight and calm voice. The look on their face said it all, apparently days later a memorial and some flowers were set on the spot, he died.

I've tried to explain to people close to me about that incident and how sometimes not feeling anything can have worse implications than either pain or anguish in those situations; it reveals to you something you always thought you knew but refused to believe. Its surreal, but given past experiences, which I won't discuss, it makes reasonable sense.

You'll get over it if you're strong enough, don't fall for the after school counselor special with the whiny pining for unobtainable ideals based on delusions you thought of while on lithium or xanax; thereare worst things in life than getting a reminder to Carpe Diem, quam minimum credula postero, learn from it the lessons become clear to you after some reflection and perhaps let others around you know how you feel about them.

[jolly wailer]

cool story, bro

[knell]

cool story, bro

uncalled for, in this thread

[Dankhurricane]

for three years i cared for my grandma who was ill with alzheimers.
I saw it from the point of driving her car off the road, to beating my aunt with the dog leash for not telling her where the secret tunnel in the house was.
Bizzare shit, and I was there until her final hospice days. I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo drunk the night she finally died.
but the six months she was deteriorating on hospice was, absolutely unbearable. She was bed ridden while her body continued to forgot how to use itself :/

I'm so happy that she's finally dead.

[dubluke]

this kid from my college jumped off the foot bridge at the station near my college right in front of a train when I was standing on the platform waiting to go home a couple of years ago, not a pleasant thing to see.

[AntlionUK]

seen dead bodys, car accident, OD and my nan when she passed.

[Genevieve]

Didn't see anyone die, but I saw my dad's dead body. Surreal night.. I work at a venue and that night it was the first night I'd supply the fridges with drinks. I told them I'd probably leave at times to check up on my dad who was in the hospital. We knew he probably wouldn't be around for too long, but I didn't think it would be that night. Anyway, I checked up on him at around 12 at night, left the venue at twelve and just as I entered the hospital I got a call from my mom saying I should drop by. Well, I was in the room one minute later. Apparently it happened as I got off my bike.

Surreal. o.o

[DRTY]

Haven't seen anyone die, and don't want to! My girlfriend looks after old people with dementia for a living and she deals with dead people quite alot. Don't reckon I have the stomach for it tbh.

[Dankhurricane]

Haven't seen anyone die, and don't want to! My girlfriend looks after old people with dementia for a living and she deals with dead people quite alot. Don't reckon I have the stomach for it tbh.

I bet you hear stories about old people getting stuck together fucking.

[DRTY]

Haven't seen anyone die, and don't want to! My girlfriend looks after old people with dementia for a living and she deals with dead people quite alot. Don't reckon I have the stomach for it tbh.

I bet you hear stories about old people getting stuck together fucking.

hahaha, Na but she did say the other day, a man was visiting her wife who was in the home and she (my gf) came into the room with a meal for them went to give it to them and they were full on snogging like tongues down eachothers throats snogging