re: Have you ever seen someone die?

Both parents. Still makes me very sad.

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Sometimes the pain is just unbearable.

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you’ve had a rough go of it here for a while Peej, I keep you in my prayers and have the best wishes for you, I may be wrong but interacting with this collective of misfits and miscreants might be a temporary diversion from your pain, best regards

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21 year career firefighter. Yes many.

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10 year career US Marshal. Also many.

You never get used to it or desensitized, it's always a days-long mental struggle afterward - even if the dead person was a very bad human themselves. And if seeing someone die isn't bad enough, causing that person to die (even in justified circumstances) is not easy or pleasant and takes a huge toll

It’s not something you forget.

There’s usually a last gasp like a fish on a boat that steals part of your soul to watch.

Was a Paramedic for 20 years. So… seen a lot of death over those years. I think average Paramedic works 2 years and quits. Either you can deal with it or you cannot.

Yes, multiple times. To be fair, I used to work in a hospital. The worst was a guy in a motorcycle accident. Never saw so much blood in my life

Yes.

My grandma and my dad. They could both be described as peaceful but it wasn’t pretty

Yes, my father and it sucked to see him takes his last breath.

Twice. Both accidents.

Dad was a truck driver. On trip with him one summer and he was backed into loading dock. I was sitting on a bench on the walkway up to the dispatch office. Another driver was striping down a double stack pallet of roofing pallet. While on top of trailer unrolling his tarp he tripped and fell off the trailer landing head first on concrete below. I was 20 feet away. Sounded like a watermelon splitting open. As soon as he hit he sat straight up, looked right at me and asked what happened. Then just laid back down and died. I was about 10.

Second time was also on trip with Dad. Cruising down interstate up on east coast . We were in right lane. There was a car pulled over on the inside median but very close to the road on the left side lane. It was a hatch back. A pickup in the left lane swerved just a little bit the left as he was approaching the car. Can gut the rear right corner, came up over top, shearing off part of the back and then flipped on rolled down the highway. This happened ahead of us so my dad had to block on the brakes and pull the truck over to the right. I was 15 or 16 at the time. We both jumped out. My dad ran over to the pick up to check on driver. He was banged up but nothing too serious. I, unfortunately chose to run tongue hatch back. There were two passengers in front who were ok. Not a scratch on them. However there was a decapited body sitting in the back seat. So much blood everywhere. I never saw where his head ended up. I just remember staring at the body in horror and not being able to look away for what seemed like a very long time. I’m sure it was just a moment. Then I puked my guts out and went back to the truck. That image stuck with me for a very long time.

Seen a few other pretty serious industrial accidents over the years but none fatal.