Saw a man die

Fuck, I'm glad I haven't seen anyone die traumatically like some of you guys.

That's the type of shit that gives people nightmares.
 
had one die on me last night, crash call went out round the hospital, but they were gone. ive seen to many hangings though. not a nice way to go. told the story before here, had to cut a friend of mine down once, found him hanging after he split with the bitch he called a wife.
 
rocketskates said:
Seen it many times between my time in the military and eleven years as a LEO. Used to bother me but I’ve learned to distance myself emotionally from pretty much anything involving the death of someone that I don’t know. Sounds cold but it’s business as usual now.
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This. My wife can't understand how I lack empathy for people I don't know, but she's never delt with drowned toddlers, hysterical family members and bridge jumpers
 
Thrawn33 said:
This. My wife can't understand how I lack empathy for people I don't know, but she's never delt with drowned toddlers, hysterical family members and bridge jumpers
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Many people mistake the disconnect from a situation by cops as not caring or being cold. It’s quite the opposite and the reality is if I take everything home with me I wouldn’t sleep at night.
 
neverwas said:
had one die on me last night, crash call went out round the hospital, but they were gone. ive seen to many hangings though. not a nice way to go. told the story before here, had to cut a friend of mine down once, found him hanging after he split with the bitch he called a wife.
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That’s rough man
 
Was there when my grandpa died in home hospice care, no Bueno
Saw multiple, dozens of people killed in Afghanistan and Somalia. Shot, pink misted, you name it
Saw a motorcyclist merc'd by a truck that ran a red light, decapitated
saw a guy get stabbed in college, he died as a result (but not on the scene)

In similar fashion, once had to identify 17 bodies KIA by a VBIED and EFP (but wasn't physically there when it happened), and also have discovered no less than 5 suicide victims.
 
Have to see bodies on the regular. Hangings, etc suicides, a lot of hospital deaths, road calls, drugs, etc. It is not good for the psyche in the long term.
 
I've seen a man die. He was basically trying to commit suicide by having a car hit him on the freeway. He parked on one side of the freeway and ran across to the other side. Most cars zigged, but one zagged right into him and over him. Drug the body a few hundred feet before coming to a complete stop.
 
Tone C said:
Cheers, nice to see that someone understands how bad it can affect us drivers ( or conductors as you US folks call them.)

I've had 2 , first one died, second one survived but right fucked up as you would expect after getting hit by about 300 ton of train doing about 10 mph.

I've got colleagues that have had fatalities and never driven again and had others who have turned up to work the next day because they weren't fussed.
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When I was in high school I worked at sears for a little bit with this old guy who used to be a conductor. He said he’d run over several people, he had a really casual attitude about it. I guess he really adopted the attitude of “it ain’t my fault you jumped out in front of me”
 
accept life for what it is, you have no control over it, except for your mind.
 
fuck that dude, if you're going to kill yourself don't traumatize others from witnessing it, especially the train driver
 
Saw someone die in a car crash when i was 6 or so. Fireworks night in the UK and we were out having a bonfire , loads of blue lights so and older neighbour n I went to see...paramedics declared him dead.

Another died of a suspected heart attack at a lock on the River Thames. My father was trying to resus him but failed. That hurt him i know.

The suicide of that guy in front of my train i said about.
 
I die a little every day..
 
I saw a kid with a propeller hat crying cause he dropped his ice cream. Going on 25 years but I still remember it as if it was yesterday.
 
I was on a train that hit and killed two people when I was 21. The train hadn't even left our city yet when the accident happened. I didn't see the accident, but I did see the wreckage when the train eventually started up again.

This father who was in his 70's stalled his car right on the train tracks. He had a daughter in her 50's that was still in the car and couldn't get out. Apparently she had a wheel chair. He was waving for the train to stop and was crushed between the train and the car, killing both of them.

If memory serves me correctly we were there a good three or four hours before the coroner did what he had to do.

That was a really odd Christmas break from school in general. My father could have died from a viral infection that attacked his heart. He was staying at my aunt's place and I went to visit him there. His ankles were swollen up. I said we need to go to the hospital now. He was in intensive care for 3 weeks. He died at one point but was resuscitated while in the hospital.

I spoke with someone in the next room, an old guy who had pneumonia. He called out to me and told me about how he almost died and was clearly shook. I said to him that he's here now and hopefully he won't be getting out soon. He didn't seem like he was in that rough a shape in that moment. The next day when I went back to the hospital I thought maybe I'd bring the old guy a paper to drop off on the way to seeing my dad. I notice the room was empty. I go to the nurses station which was right outside his door and asked where the old guy was that was in there. The nurse told me that he passed away that morning.

While I didn't see anyone die in both instances, they happened inside of a week. I guess TS, take it as an opportunity to look at our own mortality and value our time here as we don't know when our own number is up.
 
Sorry you had to witness that shit...tough stuff that will never leave you...just part of the difficulty that life throws at us....It was tough for you, tougher for the guy who jumped...He’s now at peace, and hopefully you can be also...
 
Don't listen to these hard asses TS. It "doesn't bother me at all" until they blow their brains out one day. Unless you are a literal psycho or something, death SHOULD bother you, especially a gorey, untimely death like that.

People think if they just suppress their thoughts that they go away, that's not how it works. Even if you don't think about it, it will wreck ur subconscious....hence the super high suicide rates in military vets, fireman, and law enforcement.

I've seen some stuff that still haunts me from time to time....I try to acknowledge that the world is an awful place and use it as motivation to stay on my toes and be thankful for what and who I have.
 
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