Saddest Thing You've Ever Seen

I had to take the last family dog to be put down. That last look he gave me before they euthanized him made me cry. Still saddens me to this day but I'm still glad I did it because he was in so much pain.
 
Kyle1991 said:
Couldn't even make this up-
My wife and I who are foster parents get a call at like 2 in the morning asking if we can take in a 6 year old boy for a short term, which isn't out of the ordinary. When cyfd gets to our house , they bring in the kid and he's wearing a hospital gown which is wierd... Turns out the kid wasn't actually in the system (hadn't been removed from his parents custody), what happened was the kids dad had a heart attack and he called 911 and when they take him and his father to the hospital, the dad who is having heart failure throws up on him and so he has no clothes so that's why he's in the hospital gown when he gets to our house. The dad ended up dying that night and so the lady from cyfd shows up the next morning to tell him and she lets us know that his birthday is the next day and they can't find his mom or other family. So long story short we end up trying to put on a bday party for this kid and he's not with anyone he knows and it's just a horrible thing. We ended up having him for a couple weeks before his mom, who lived out of state could make arrangements to have him.
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Jeebus
 
Saddest experience or saddest thing ever seen? Because that picture of the cats is the latter.
 
Satanical Eve said:
A few years ago my great aunt Marian who was born with polio ended up having to be moved to a nursing/hospice care facility. I realized that I may never see her again so I figured why not visit her.

As I walked into the place and was waking down the hall towards her room, I heard a nurse at the nurses station call for a crash cart. I didn't think anything of it and kept walking. I ended up walking into the room and well saw a nurse and a doctor working on. Then I saw someone wheel in the crash cart and it was then I realized she was on deaths door. The doctor decided to stop after finding out that she had a DNR setup.

I just stood there frozen as she took her final breaths, nurses with the crash cart left, the doctor stood by and a good minute or so later he checked her pulse and called it. Telling the nurse the date and time.

Also my Laso Apso mix Munchie ended up living to the age 20, by the time he was 20, he could barely see, had trouble walking, urinated and pooped in the house and if you let him outside he would just stay get lost in the backyard and not know to come back to the door to come in. It was then that my mother and father decided its best that not suffer anymore. We took him to our local vet and decided to have him euthanized.

The vet gave us the option if we wanted to watch him get euthanized and I decided to do it. We went into the room and the vet had a needle and everything setup. She let me hold Munchie while she got everything ready. I remember like it was yesterday, she stuck the needle in him and he yelped and then whimpered for a few seconds and then his breathing got labored until within 2 minutes it was over. I started bawling badly when he stopped whimpering. Horrible experience that I wish nobody has to go through.

We were allowed to take Munchie home for burial, we put him a box in the garage until my father came home from work so we could all bury him as a family. The most heart wrenching moment of the whole day was when my Black Lab Duke came outside to go the bathroom, immediately went into the garage, walked over to where the box was, looked at it, sniffed it and just laid down next to it for the remainder of the day staring at it. I had this feeling that he knew Munchie had passed.

Duke would die a few years afterwards at the age of 9 from what we believe to be cancerous growths in his belly. Took him to the vet, he was happy and giddy when the vet took him away for overnight observation and testing. That was the last time I saw him alive. Came home from college classes the next day, only to find him in the garage on the ground postmortem. I laid down next to him and just kept on petting him, pissed off I never I got to say goodbye

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Not getting to say goodbye is the worst part

I was actually going to visit my buddy that died that week. My plan was to squeeze out of work early and drive out there to see him and my other friend who was in Pennsylvania at the time. Shit was out of nowhere
 
About two years ago, a family friend in his early twenties about to go med school just collapses in his kitchen. Turns out he had a massive heart attack, as his family had a history of heart disease. He was dead when the ambulance arrived. A year later, the dad dies of the same thing. Now their mom is all alone in the world. We haven't heard back from her in a while.
 
Fuck me for even clicking on this thread. No need to check the next page.
 
Like most others in the thread, saddest moment was having to have our pet cat euthanized.

I had grown up with the cat, she was 16 when she died. She had kidney failure, which apparently isn't uncommon in cats.. but she was losing weight drastically and couldn't even eat/drink, you could see she wanted to but just couldn't, she would look up at you and you could see her asking "why cant i eat/drink this?" it was heartbreaking, after this we decided to go to the vet to have her euthanized. Once we were there, the vet gave us the option of saying goodbye and leaving or saying goodbye and staying. My mum decided to leave, she was an absolute mess. Me and my dad decided to stay, i didn't want her last moments to be filled with fear and around people she doesn't know. The vet stuck the needle in, the cat laid down and just fell asleep whilst we were stroking her, at this point i was an emotional wreck, ive never cried like that before or since. After a couple of minutes, she just stopped breathing and thats it, she was gone. :(
 
My mother, bleeding and bruised at the hands of my father. I was six and powerless, and he was a terrifying man.
 
Seeing a good friend develop and suffer from intractable schizophrenia.
 
My dog is dying in my hands right now from kidney failure. I'm taking him to be put down if he's still here in a couple of hours. It's hard as hell, I keep crying, I love this dog. I don't know if it's the saddest thing, but right now it feels like it.
 
Probably seeing the state of my Grandparents when my Mum nearly died about 15 years ago.

She was the first born and when she was about 8 her brother died of a brain tumour when he was four years old and when she was about 10 her sister died when she was less than one years old of some kind of virus.
So if my Mum had died (which was looking likely at the time), my Grandparents would have had all three kids die on them.

It kind of put things in perspective for me.
 
When the news of my friend hanging himself came. Was major anti climax. I think he desserved some good and to turn his life around.

Also my 10 years younger lil bro breaking down after realizing our mom wasn't going to make it. That sucked major balls being his big brother.
 
My dads funeral. His favorite song was always Freebird and I made it through the entire thing keeping everything inside to hopefully let out afterward once I wasn't around anyone. At the end after the final words were said, they played Freebird. Once the slide guitar hit, I just lost it uncontrollably.

"If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me..."
 
Not the saddest thing that's happened to me, but one recent event that sticks with me..

I had a client I was representing in a workers' compensation action. This lady had sustained multiple injuries after fainting at work and hitting her head. She would sometimes complain about not being able to make it to the necessary hearings, as she was having urinary/bowel problems which caused her to feel that she needed to be near a restroom at all times. It got to the point where she would have to stop driving and pull over at a random restaurant if she had to drive for more than 30 minutes.

Days before she was to see a specialist I get a call from her and she informs me she woke up with her stomach severely inflated and is in tremendous pain. She gets taken to the hospital and is diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer the week before Thanksgiving. She died the day after Thanksgiving.
 
A family friend of ours got diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, just when she was pregnant with her first child. They said that the cancer treatments would hurt the baby, so she decided to not have them. After 5 years of fighting cancer she passed away at age 35.
 
Just got done burying my dog. Scratched him just behind the ear like he loved all the way to the end. I'm just glad he's not suffering anymore. There's some gut wrenching stories in here. Losing my cousin to a drunk driver was pretty horrible. Watching his mother basically give up on life after that when she had other sons was just as bad but drawn out over years instead of one horrible weekend.

ajwbjj87 said:
The parts of being a cop nobody hears about, a good friend of mine is a cop and he's always told me bad automotive accidents were by far the worst part of the job because you have no idea what you will find or see
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My mom is a dispatcher for 911. She's wanted me to become a police officer or a fire fighter, but this is the very reason I couldn't do it. I'm an incredibly empathetic person, there's no way I could handle that scene. And I don't want to numb myself to be able to.
 
Watching most of my family die due to their addictions/vices was rather hard and something that stuck with me.

Though the saddest was when I watched my dad die a few years back.
 
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