Saw a man die

Best piece of advice I got on this subject from a old salt was...

“None of this shit got nothin’ to do with you.”
 
Held my fiancee as a pulmonary embolism shut her off seemingly out of anywhere at 1 am last Easter, it was unlike words can accurately describe
 
aunshi189 said:
So last week, as I'm waiting at the train station on my way home from work (as poor as that sounds) I saw a man die.
It was raining and me and this guy were stood in the shelter together. Me sat down, him stood in the doorway just about out of the rain. An announcement comes out over the speaker that the next train coming through the station was an express train and wouldn't be stopping.
As the train starts to approach at a high speed, the guy causally strolls out of the shelter and walks towards the platform edge. At first I thought he just thought the train was stopping but he kept going. With impeccable timing he dropped off the edge of the platform just as the train was arriving. I don't think he even hit the floor before the train hit him.

I don't want to go into too much detail as to what was left but it was messy. I swore and immediately rang the police. I've never seen someone die before and especially in such a graphic way.

It took an hour and a half before I was done giving statements to the police and got to go home.

As a soyboy millenial I am having some issues coming to term with this and it has been playing on my mind. Being a sensible person I have come to Sherdog for guidance.

How many of you have seen someone die? Did it bother you?
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In response to the first sentence. It doesn't sound poor at all. I live in a metropolitan area and I frequently use a train to commute to/from work.
 
Cole train said:
i saw a guy get shot in a shootout saint petersburg in 97

dunno if he died since my grandfather threw my ass on the ground behind a car
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I was seated at a drive thru waiting for my food one evening and I heard shots come from the convenience store across the street. About 6 people ran out and one fell out after a few strides on the side walk. I never got my burrito.
 
That's a fucked up way to die. He most probably didn't suffer anything though.
 
I was on a beach, walking.. the sun was bothering me. An arab walking towards me looked me in the wrong way. I shot him dead and kept walking.

Oh no.. it was just a book I read.


No, haven't seen any human die but when I was like 19 one of my dogs died and it was awful to watch. I lost a lot of pets in my life but she was just there vomiting and suffering.
 
YourOnlineHero said:
I feel bad for the train driver most with this form of suicide. Front row seat.

They don't get paid enough for this shit.

The first time I witnessed a death was when I was at my first ever job. Just a shelf stacker in a local corner shop.

Guy starts banging on the window for help. Go out to see what's happening and he is laying there holding his chest. Said he'd been stabbed. I tried to keep the blood in with my hands and put pressure on it while someone else phoned an ambulance. There were too many wounds though and the blood kept pouring out.

Took about 10 minutes for the ambulance to get there. The poor guy asked me if he was going to die and I stupidly pretended not to hear him. Then he was gone.

Got shouted at by the boss the next day too because I apparently left the shop a mess and holding a dying man in my arms near closing time wasn't a good excuse. I should've already finished all the work by the time that happened lol.
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Your boss sounds like a good person.
 
I recently remarked to a co-worker that I wonder if I should be bothered by the fact that it doesn't bother me. Seen some gruesome stuff. Compartmentalization just seems to happen. Watched my grandfather pass away on hospice and my daughter in the delivery room. Those were tough. Maybe, after that, it would take a lot.
 
the ambush said:
In response to the first sentence. It doesn't sound poor at all. I live in a metropolitan area and I frequently use a train to commute to/from work.
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Its an American thing to look down on public transportation.
 
Organic Damage said:
It's interesting that most people* probably never see anyone die these days, whereas that's probably something everyone would have experienced in the relatively recent past.
Back when people died at home instead of in hospital you were almost guaranteed to be in the room when a parent or elder died.

Not that I want to see it necessarily. But it's kind of weird to think it would fuck you up considering it wasn't uncommon, if not being routine, not too long ago.

(*in western developed countries)
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Yeah man, was thinking this too. Your loving room used to be called the parlor. Because that's where people came to see the dead body before the funeral.
It's weird how segregated we are from death and how little we are forced to confront it. When as you said, it was very common in the recent past.
 
Was like a mile (9 or 10 blocks) blocks away from the towers when they fell. Was rehabbing some apartment/condos my first job after college. Heard first plane n saw part 0f 2nd hitting . Saw both towers fall. I didn't see anyone die up close but seeing that was pretty fucked up un own right.
 
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