re: Have you ever seen someone die?

Was in the front yard with my brother and buddy when my dad shot his girlfriend in the face in the kitchen. My brother ran inside and then turned right around screaming for us to run. It's a fear that I hope I never feel again.

I believe I’ve shared this story on here before, but, I was 17 in high school working as a cashier at a local gas station. I thought a drunk guy was walking in. He fell out at the counter with a snickers bar saying that his blood sugar was low. I called 911 but he had come to almost instantly and refused medical.

He ate his snickers bar sitting down and when he got up he fell back down and out almost immediately. I called 911 again and started chest compressions. First responders got there in 3-5 min. He never came back to and first responders said he probably died before hitting the ground from a massive heart attack.

On 2/23/23 I watched my mom die in my sister's arms as we went to turn her over in her bed to a different side so that she didn't get sores or clots. She was 81 and had been in hospice for about two weeks. She had three UTIs in quick succession in January, and the last one was the final straw. Her body just started giving up. But in reality, she had really been declining a lot over the previous year. She was always fastidious about her appearance, but then she just didn't care anymore. She had no desire to leave her room at the assisted living facility, didn't want to eat anything, and started to have episodes where she just wasn't there, basically. She'd have a good day every now and then, but those became a lot less common than the bad days.

She'd been completely comatose for two days at the point she died. She was just laying in bed, shallowly breathing. We would turn her every so often to keep sores and clots from forming. It was about mid afternoon when we went to do it again, and as soon as we moved her, she stopped breathing at all. No pulse l. She was gone. Watched it happen before my eyes. My sister was kind of unsure at first, but it was obvious. Felt for a pulse and there was nothing

I think her soul had already left her body a few hours before. I was sitting at her bedside, holding her hand, and I don't know how to explain it other than to say I felt something change. Something inside me told me that she was gone. Her body was just working on autopilot those last few hours

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Driver was decapitated and his head ended up in the first pew of the church.

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Only at work (medical.) And with my mom, i was there when she was getting CPR but not in the ambulance. I’m not sure when she technically died but driving behind the ambulance, at one point i felt something and i think that’s the actual time.

Twice. My dad peacefully. A street walker in Orange Texas not so much. She was trying to cross I-10 and got dead centered by a 18 wheeler. She basically exploded into pieces. I had nightmares about that shite for a while.

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I was sitting at her bedside, holding her hand, and I don't know how to explain it other than to say I felt something change

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That, exactly.

Father - i was 10, called for help for him when he had heart attack, only other person home

Mother - I was 37, she had a DNR.

Random construction worker:

In a staff meeting (2017?), saw scaffolding with a lift attached to it (lifting a sign of some kind) collapse/fall over, smacked his head against parapet wall on this roof visible from the window. Heard the noise looked just in time to see it with about 6 coworkers. One of which used to be an emt so he got up and headed there. Said guy was Dead already when he got there.

I will never understand people's attraction to violence and therefore death. It's repugnant and against the norm. I've seen many instances of both in my employment. This is an answer not a critique of OP. There's a reason "gallows humor" exists in certain professions. But in reality it's the ability to compartmentalize trauma that allows people to deal with these things.

Do you have some odd fascination with seeing someone die?