Ever witnessed a tragic death?

Yeah that’s rough with wife having to see it. I hope he at least a little older and had kids, to have someone to carry on for him.

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Yeah that’s rough with wife having to see it. I hope he at least a little older and had kids, to have someone to carry on for him.

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He was a bit older, probably mid to late 60’s, if I had to do a rough guess by his appearance.

Back in the 90’s we watched a guy jump off the roof of the oxygen zone hotel in PCB aiming for the pool. He missed. It was awful.

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It’s a shock to your system. At least yall tried to help that man and did everything you could do. Talk about it with someone, try to process it.

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Yea, we kinda debriefed for 30 minutes afterwards and ended the hang out. The scream immediately brought back a memory I had completely forgotten about and haven’t thought of in years. I was at Dekalb County lake as a preteen, and a child started choking on some kind of food. The mom had the exact same scream, but someone gave the Heimlich maneuver and the child was fine. Just…the sound.

Saw a car pull out in front of a biker and he was toast. Flew 100 feet. Bad day all around.

I have made reference in here before that my dad was a truck driver. Saw two deaths while in trips with him.

I was about 10 y/o. We were at a roofing plant backed up to loading dock. My dad was in dispatch office I was sitting just outside on a bench watching a fellow tarp down a load. It was a double stack load of pallets if felt paper. He slipped and fell off the top of the trailer and landed head first on crown of his head on pavement. Probably about 12 feet. Sounded like a watermelon busting on concrete. I was maybe 15-20 feet away. As soon as he hit he immediately sat straight up, looked at me and said “ What happened” then laid back down and went unconscious. Started spasms and was dead by time ambulance showed up. I remeber the skin being split from top of head all the way to tip if his nose.

When I was 15 we were up on east coast on interstate. We are cruising along in the right hand lane. Up ahead there was this hatch back car broke down and off the shoulder of the left lane. A pick up truck ahead of us swerved off the road and hit the rear right side of the hatch back. It went up over and basically sheared off the top of the car then went in its side and rolled a few times. Another car behind him ending up running into the pick up as well. My dad locked up the brakes and pulled over on the right side. We both hopped out to go help. My dad ran over to check on the pick up driver, who was pretty banged up but still alive. He was an older man who had fallen asleep while driving. I ran over to the hatchback. The two passengers in the front were very shook up with a few minor injuries but miraculously that was it. However there had been a guy sitting in the rear right side of car. When the truck shear off the roof it had decapitated him. It was just his body sitting in the seat. Blood was everywhere. I was pretty shook up from the sight of it all.

I lived in Asia for over 10 years, and I saw more than my fair share of horrible traffic accidents. I was in China when cars were first getting popular, and they didn’t mingle well with the millions of bicycles on the streets. In Taipei and Bangkok families of 4 and 5 would ride one scooter, and the carnage after one of those scooters got hit by a speeding taxi would make you sick. In Hong Kong people from the mainland would get to the city for the first time and get run over because of the English traffic rules. They would walk up to cross a street and look left for traffic rather than right. In Japan businessmen would drop dead in the subway or on the platform. The name for the cause of death is death by working too much.

I have never witnessed a single fatality in the US or in Europe, but Asia… damn.

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Friend and I were gassing up his car at a Circle K late one night and saw a car’s headlights rolling down a big ravine about 150 yards down the street. We ran over there, the car is a black mid-80’s Camaro right side up but heavily damaged, still running, Def Leppard’s Photograph cranked up on the stereo. Girl was in the passenger seat, stunned - awake but unresponsive. My friend ran back to the Circle K to call police and I stayed at the scene as some others who witnessed it begin arriving. I’m walking back up the ravine and almost tripped over a guy, he got ejected from the car and was bleeding out his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He was knocked out, breathing gurgling noises, face all swollen up, we were talking about what do we do, some said don’t move him so we didn’t, within a few minutes his head was swelled up like a basketball. He took a big gurgly breath like he had suddenly woke up but just exhaled and that was it.

I found out later that night they were leaving a massive beer kegger party my friend and I were at earlier. I had assumed they went to our HS, but the guy was my chemistry lab partner the prior year. The girl was a grade below me, she missed the rest of the school year but healed up and was fine.

Some of us took flowers to his mom’s house after the funeral, I’ll never forget wondering how it must feel for her. She was still in shock and none of our dumb asses knew what to say. Sad deal.