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re: Have you ever seen someone die?
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:47 am to CatsGoneWild
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:47 am to CatsGoneWild
Two people:
My Mom
FIL
Both peacefully.
My Mom
FIL
Both peacefully.
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Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:48 am to CatsGoneWild
quote:
Was it in an accident, died peacefully, or murder?
All of the above.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:13 pm to CatsGoneWild
Many times over now.
The very first time was at the big lawn in front of the LSU Systems building before it got partially paved over for parking spaces. This would have been ‘84-‘85-ish or so.
We were watching a group of Sigma Nus playing touch football when one of the guys went down. Several guys gathered around him and it quickly started to look frantic and serious. One of our guys who had military and first aid experience ran out there to try to help. They did CPR best they could until an ambulance got there; seemed like it took forever.
The kid was dead when they hauled him off. He was a Sigma Nu pledge. Eighteen years old. Dropped dead playing touch football.
Screwed up deal.
The very first time was at the big lawn in front of the LSU Systems building before it got partially paved over for parking spaces. This would have been ‘84-‘85-ish or so.
We were watching a group of Sigma Nus playing touch football when one of the guys went down. Several guys gathered around him and it quickly started to look frantic and serious. One of our guys who had military and first aid experience ran out there to try to help. They did CPR best they could until an ambulance got there; seemed like it took forever.
The kid was dead when they hauled him off. He was a Sigma Nu pledge. Eighteen years old. Dropped dead playing touch football.
Screwed up deal.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:25 pm to CatsGoneWild
35 year paramedic. Too many to count.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:29 pm to Auburn80
Same
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:30 pm to CatsGoneWild
A few. One peaceful. The rest, not so much.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:31 pm to CatsGoneWild
I was walking home from Hangout Festival and was still partying pretty hard. Saw a guy walk into the street and get hit by a car.
It was pretty awful
It was pretty awful
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:32 pm to CatsGoneWild
You don't get over it, but you learn to live with it.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:32 pm to CatsGoneWild
quote:
have you ever seen someone die?
Have you ever held a naked man in your arms?
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:36 pm to CatsGoneWild
Ive worked EMS in some capacity or another for 19 years now.
So..yes.
Dont read the following if you like Ham Sandwhiches or youre currently eating.
The best was when I was about to finish paramedic school, a patient with throat cancer was choking on a ham sammy. He was concious when we got there and abdominal thrust artially cleared his airway but he wasnt moving air and coded right before got him loaded in the ambulance. I pulled chunks of ham out that guys throat for two intubation attempts before we just decided to do a blind insert. Total time coded was between 3-5 minutes.
He converted right after we got an airway in, walked out of the hospital a couple days later with not neuro deficits.
So..yes.
Dont read the following if you like Ham Sandwhiches or youre currently eating.
The best was when I was about to finish paramedic school, a patient with throat cancer was choking on a ham sammy. He was concious when we got there and abdominal thrust artially cleared his airway but he wasnt moving air and coded right before got him loaded in the ambulance. I pulled chunks of ham out that guys throat for two intubation attempts before we just decided to do a blind insert. Total time coded was between 3-5 minutes.
He converted right after we got an airway in, walked out of the hospital a couple days later with not neuro deficits.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:39 pm to dyslexiateechur
quote:
My mother. She was on a lot of morphine and had been in a coma for several days and she just quit breathing. I’m 42 as well but was 41 when it happened.
I’m so sorry for your loss man. I’m almost 42 and lost my mother two years ago very unexpectedly.
I often wonder how it would have been to have known she was dying and had the time with her beforehand. The again, my mother didn’t suffer, so I count that a blessing.
I know that I will see her again one day, so that eases my sorrow.
This post was edited on 4/18/25 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:43 pm to CatsGoneWild
quote:Both, .... too many.
Was it in an accident, died peacefully,
Family members and some others.
I was an EMT.
77 now. Still married.
I'm dreading the next one ....
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:50 pm to CatsGoneWild
Twice.
Hiking high in the mountains, an older gentleman (78) keeled over with a heart attack. He'd been having heart problems before the trip and knew it was a risk but refused to take it easy, it just wasn't his nature. We tried CPR for a half hour before the professionals arrived but it did no good. Heart attack is not as peaceful a way to go as I had thought.
Holding a close relative's hand at the hospital when it was their time. They really were gone already, it was mostly peaceful.
Hiking high in the mountains, an older gentleman (78) keeled over with a heart attack. He'd been having heart problems before the trip and knew it was a risk but refused to take it easy, it just wasn't his nature. We tried CPR for a half hour before the professionals arrived but it did no good. Heart attack is not as peaceful a way to go as I had thought.
Holding a close relative's hand at the hospital when it was their time. They really were gone already, it was mostly peaceful.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:50 pm to CatsGoneWild
I've seen someone right after but not during. In HS, I was heading to work and a motorcyclist had wrecked and lost about half his face while skidding on the asphalt.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:52 pm to CatsGoneWild
My grandfather and my father. I don’t know if I’d call either “peaceful.” My grandfather died from a heart attack. My dad died from complications due to NAFLD.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:58 pm to CatsGoneWild
Yes very peaceful they just took a breath and then they didn’t. I watched them suffer for weeks so the peaceful death was a relief of some sort
Posted on 4/18/25 at 12:59 pm to CatsGoneWild
More than once.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 1:20 pm to CatsGoneWild
Saw an aunt die naturally was on hospice. Also two uncles off life support one peaceful the other I hope I never see again. One uncle was left on life support to long when they pulled plug omg . Dont watch.
This post was edited on 4/18/25 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 4/18/25 at 1:43 pm to CatsGoneWild
I watched my dad pass away peacefully in a hospital room. It wasn’t so bad. It made me fear death much less, actually. I nearly envied him.
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