Do your emotions get caught in your work? Especially with dead babies and children? How do you deal with seeing and working on dead bodies? Especially if it was victim to beatings, fire, car crashes?
2006-12-28 01:11:26 · 8 answers · asked by ♣DreamDancer♣ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You really do get used to the gore and tragedy, yet I will never get used to the death of a child. After a while, you learn to channel your emotions into positive and helpful means. I still get emotional at times, but for the most part I have evolved into a happy medium where I am happy and yet compassionate. Working on dead bodies does not bother me in the least, or I wouldn't be in the funeral business. I enjoy making the deceased look good for their family to see them one last time.
2006-12-28 09:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by Reagan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I took over running my dads funeral business when he was very ill. Most of the time, I could accept that people had perhaps had a good, long life - or some died in tragic circumstances. I'd seen girls my age who had been raped and murdered and lads who had been beaten and raped by groups. The one that really broke my heart, was when I was asked by the police to bring a baby back from a near by city. The baby had been killed by his father. I couldn't bring myself to leave the baby in the mortuary and I was sat cradling it on the floor. When I eventually pulled myself together, I went home and told my dad I couldn't do it anymore. My dad told me, the day I stopped caring, would be the day I could get out of the business. It was the best advice, I could have had.
2006-12-28 01:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Agony Aunt 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
True story from the 1950s
A young doc was asked to straighten the body of a man that had died in some pain. The body, on its back with the knees up. The body on a bed in a house alone.
Doc sits on the abdomen and pushes the knees down. They give way suddenly. The doc slips forward and the torso sits up, pressing against the docs back (it does happen)
At the same time the pressure causes the now smelly air to be expelled from the lungs of the corpse with a low 'URRRRRR' sound. (In docs ear remember)
The doc left that building pretty fast by all accounts.
2006-12-28 01:20:37 · answer #3 · answered by philip_jones2003 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was a para medic for ten years, working out of a funeral home for 5 of those, so we did all that stuff. Either you can handle it or not, if not, get out of it. I never got over feeling bad about children especially, but you learn to "turn it off" when you go home. Another way to deal with it (in house, not to outsiders) is to see humor in it. I know that sounds morbid, but it provides a release for those who need it.
2006-12-28 01:33:40 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you're really interested in the subject, you should watch the five seasons of the HBO series "Six Feet Under".
2006-12-28 01:17:19 · answer #5 · answered by brickity hussein brack 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Parts is parts. The stories behind those parts are what matters, not the parts themselves.
2006-12-28 01:13:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be terrible! I could never do it!
2006-12-28 01:15:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't do it!
2006-12-28 01:21:27 · answer #8 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋