2006-10-03 15:08:38 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Lots. It numbs me just a little still. I've seen them die from car wrecks, heart attacks, burned up from fire, suicide, murder.
2006-10-03 18:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by jp_457 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a police officer, I have seen people die. I have felt the pulse stop and felt it come back with CPR and sometimes felt it fade away again.
I've seen people die from car accidents (too many teens) and not pretty either.
Drug OD.....horrific and unbelievable what happens there.
Suicides....of assorted means and non pretty and all messy.
You want to see and smell death, become a Cop. Yea, societies garbage man. As a Cop you will see more then most people would see in 20 life times.
2006-10-03 22:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by Eldude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was with my mom when she died. She was on life support at the time due to a long illness from which there was no hope of recovery. The doctors and nurses were incredible and made it as painless as possible for her. Even still, I did not find it peaceful. It was disturbing. She eventually just stopped breathing. There was no dramatic moment or anything even remarkable about it. She was just here and then she wasn't. It seems like there should be something more significant than just now you are here and now you aren't.
2006-10-03 23:19:03 · answer #3 · answered by zpie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daddy, from liver cancer, in 2001.The last words he said were to me. I asked if I could get him anything ,he said "I just need you." He went into a coma state and died hours later.
But the most difficult would be in 2003 watching my 44yr. old husband die from lung cancer. I accepted losing my dad,father-in-law,and mother-in-law (though within 11months of each other).
My daughter was only 11,my son was 7 yrs old. One thing I have learned is that as a person I am stronger than I realized. I faced each day hoping and looking for a miracle that didn't happen. We fought his battle together,never losing hope. When he passed it was peacefully at home with me by his side. I looked at him and said "It's time to let go, the kids and I will be alright. We tried and its not meant to be.I will love you forever." We held on to each other then I placed my right hand over his heart. He looked at me and said "For always." That was it. A golden heart had stopped beating,he was at peace.
2006-10-03 22:44:36 · answer #4 · answered by iamjustme 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a pediatric nurse. Seeing someone die is not as bad as watching someone go through the death process. Death can be slow and painful or quick.
It's worse when the person dying doesn't understand why and asks you if you love them, why would you let them die.
On the other hand, it's a growing experience and can make you reflect on your own feelings about death.
2006-10-03 22:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by nurse_ren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a very young boy, I saw my grandfather die of a heart attack. It was quite tramatic, because my father was trying to save his life and my grandmother was crying.
Then, about 4 years ago I was with my father in-law when he died in the hospital. He went peacfully, but then he had been unconcious for well over a week.
I don't know if it counts, but my heart has stopped on a lot more than one occasion, when I have passed out over the years.
2006-10-03 22:24:11 · answer #6 · answered by JSalakar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes a many times. Most had died from cancer. With cancer its very painful, and towards the end they have good days as if your thinking there going to get better. Thats just before there going to die. and then towards the end there all drugged up on pain medication. and some of them are at peace speaking to past loved ones that have crossed over and they know they are going to leave us. And these people they talk to that have crossed over i believe have come to take them home.
2006-10-03 22:20:45 · answer #7 · answered by For ever in my Heart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i was 14 years old i was walking home from the boxing gym that i trained at and as i was walking down the side walk this guy on a motorcycle was driving about 70 mph maybe more and this old lady in a big old car pulled out in front of him and he rammed into the side of her car and flew off his bike throught the air and a semi coming from the opposite direction at about 55 mph caught this guy just below the helmet on his mirror and it decapitated him and then as fast as this all happened i heard this sound of a hard object bouncing and i looked and it was the helmet with this guys head still strapped in it and the most horrifying look was on his face he seen every bit of his death happen to the last milisecond it was horrible to say the least i didnt no what to think or say it was quite unreal its something you can never forget and something you wish you had never seen .
2006-10-03 22:31:07 · answer #8 · answered by pussccluvr 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Edit: I was mistaken. I have actually seen someone die, not just felt it....
When I was about thirteen my family were in an auto accident. We were on the freeway, stopped for another accident, when a car we had passed earlier plowed into the space between our car and a van. This car was doing about 45 or 50mph.
The people in this car (man, wife, child) were not wearing safety belts. I was sitting in the rear seat of the driver's side, next to my oldest brother. Looking out the window. The wife in the other car was looking in my direction when the accident happened. First her eyes rolled back in her head and then straight ahead. Then they just glazed over. Her husband jumped out of their car yelling at my father and the driver of the van. "You killed my wife!"
My brother and I had nightmares about it for years.
2006-10-03 22:12:15 · answer #9 · answered by tantiemeg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually on several occasions which is why some people call me "Dr. Death" I haven't killed anyone or anything I just happen to be in the right place at the right time. One woman under a train, another guy in a motorcycle accident, another who just keeled over in the street. On top of that a statistically abnormal amount of my friens, one from major haemoraging in pub and most of the rest from cancer. Each one unpleasant in it's way except for one, who went peacefully and with a smail on his face.
2006-10-03 22:21:20 · answer #10 · answered by wilf69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have worked in hospitals for 33 years and have had patients die infront of me dozens of times.
The cause of death(s) were :gun shot wounds,heart attack,motor vehicle accident,masive head trauma,blunt force trauma,old age,respiratory failure.
The ages ranged from newborn to 105 years old.
Every death affects you different,but a moment of silence is the best way to accept it.
2006-10-03 23:30:35 · answer #11 · answered by blakree 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋