re: Have you ever seen someone die?

I sat with my mother as she took her last few breaths after a battle with cancer. I was glad I was there with her and she didn’t have to die alone. I’ve never looked back on it as a negative thing. Hopefully someone I love will sit with me when my time comes.

Only in Brazilian Smother videos…

My bachelor party, 2001. We were staying close to Beale Street at the Hampton Inn and were sitting on the Balcony late. We saw a guy walk up and shoot another guy in the face. Guy that got shot tried to lift his head up and then died. The next morning the blood and brain matter were still on the sidewalk,. We did talk to the police and the next day they got the POS

You dark fricker. But yes and it sucked. A hit and run of a homeless person in Slidell getting on the interstate at gause Blvd going to NOLA. And A kid that was shot by his son on accident when he found his loaded gun. It was horrible

Drug overdose, cardiac arrest, and a homeless man who was stabbed. The first two were people I knew. All of them were traumatic.

40 year career as a physician and dealt with many critically ill patients. Death: allways a poignant, somber moment but often it is the natural order of things. I've seen many where it was their time to go and they welcomed it while being surrounded by family and loved ones. Death brought peace to all involved.
Seen plenty as well where it was unexpected and devastating to the families and the health care team.

Ecclesiastes 3
A Time for Everything
"There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,..."

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" derived from Genesis.

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is perfectly normal for mortal beings to have an interest in something that eventually happens to us all- death.

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I agree. What I don't understand is the people who live in denial about death to the point where they don't have a will and tell family members that they have a respiratory infection when in reality they have mets to their lungs then die leaving their family shocked and to figure it all out. My friend is going through a yearlong nightmare from his mom dying that way. Thanks mom.

But even less extreme examples I don't understand. People who act like just mentioning death brings it on or something. We are all going to die so discussing and preparing is the responsible normal thing to do. My kids know where my will is and what my final wishes are. They know my religious and spiritual beliefs. I have tried my best to make things as easy as possible for what I know will be one of the hardest things they have to deal with. Hopefully that is a long way off, but you never know.

What I have seen of death is similar to being born. Some births are relatively pain free and a beautiful experience while others are traumatic and not what anyone would have imagined when developing a "birth plan" for their baby. For the most part it isn't easy coming in or out of this world.
There are very few people who die "peacefully in their sleep."

I just hope as I exit, I have someone who loves me by my side as many of you were for your loved ones. I fear dying alone and in pain and pray for those who have.

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t was their time to go and they welcomed it while being surrounded by family and loved ones. Death brought peace to all involved.

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I've been in that scenario a couple of times, hard to explain that while it's a sad moment it's also a happy moment in a way, lost my sister to cancer last summer and I was with her every day I could be, from the time she told me about it until the last minute, she was really suffering and knew it was time, and she was completely prepared to go in every way

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Yes. 2 of my children. My 20 year old son died of cancer. I watched him take his first and last breath. My 26 year old daughter of a OD. She OD's while I was rocking her 1 month old daughter. I had to pull her out of the tub and give her cpr until EMS arrived.

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A parent's worst nightmare x 2. wow. I can't even imagine going through what you have been through, and I have been through cancer scares/surgeries with both of my kids but those experiences pale in comparison.

I hope your granddaughter is doing well.

I have seen both of my parents die in hospice. I felt relief when they passed since they both had suffered mentally and physically during their illness. I don't know what is on the other side but I do know that the pain in their latter days was finally over.