re: The most haunting sound you will ever hear

Oh...he wasn't talking like "I'm Pregnant funny haha" type of haunting, was he...

I had a job in college working at a funeral home. I started just answering phones but soon began working the actual funeral service.

The very first service I ever worked was a 19/20 year old serviceman who died in Iraq...
his mother absolutely lost it the moment she walked in the sanctuary. She had to be restrained by her husband and other family members because she was refusing to believe it was true and kept trying to get her son out of the coffin.

That was not an easy service.

It's hard to argue with the sound a parent would make from losing a child.

The only thing I've got somewhat comparable is a grown man screaming in pain. Or more like a 19 year old kid knowing he's going to die while staring at his missing limbs. That sound will never go away. One of the most traumatizing things I've ever been through was during the Fallujah battle in November of 2004. I went to the CSH in the green zone to donate plasma, and as I walked in, they were using a fricking squeegee to push blood out of the hall way, and there were several men simultaneously being treated and going through amputations etc. I was later told by an OGA guy that they went almost 8 hours on a complete morphine/anesthesia shortage on the 2nd day. They either underestimated or really had no way to supply everything they needed relative to the number of casualties.

Yep. I had to tell my mother that my brother hung himself in the house we shared. Her reaction haunts me as much as the site of finding him.

I've only seen it portrayed in movies/documentaries.

I don't ever want to see those scenes again, let alone the real thing. Haunting is the absolutely perfect word to describe it. Sorry for all of y'all's loss.

I heard it once when my wife lost her child from a first marriage. You are right, one of the worse sounds you will ever hear.

I thought I lost mine recently and every person in my neighborhood probably heard me scream. I can't get that image out of my head and I know I'm lucky he is ok. Losing a child has to be the worst feeling on earth.

the doctor walked into the waiting room with myself (13 y/o), my mom, and my dad......the sound of both parents was surreal. I just buried my head into my jacket crying with a nurse holding me. My parents were too upset to remember I was there.


yeah. its an awful sound.

No, the girls that died went to Airline in Bossier. They were going to a game at NCHS.

Lost my best friend about ten years ago in a motorcycle accident near Ponchatoula. We gathered at the hospital(friends and family) His dad asked me to go back with him to view the body. I was sobbing but the grief on his dads face was something I'll never forget