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I was tutoring a middle school girl. In the middle of our session, I heard some wailing outside and the dogs inside the apartment were barking as a result of the loud wailing. I went outside to see what the noise was about. The wailing was from a middle-aged to older woman on the other side of the apartment railing crying out in distress as medical personnel were lifting a body bag onto a stretcher to be carried out. Most likely the person was a member of her family and she couldn't take seeing someone she loved being carried out like that. I shut the door after that, knowing it wasn't appropriate to watch.
I learned from my student that someone had passed away, and that her family knew them. She cried a little bit during the session. I asked if she felt like she could continue, and she said she could. So I finished up the session and left.
It was just rather disturbing. I hadn't ever seen anything like that before. I've been to funerals and such, but this was the first time I came that close to seeing death. I haven't really experienced someone in my own immediate family dying yet. I'm gonna call up my mom.
 
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I'm sorry you and everyone had to go through that  IT was probably for the best you were there with the girl and was able to distract her a bit and keep her company
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In the fall, I was on a bus on campus and we passed by some police and paramedics hovering over a dead body right next to a parking structure. They closed off the street pretty soon after, so my bus was the only one to have seen it. Apparently someone jumped/fell off a parking structure, onto concrete, and hit their head. Blood pool on the floor. We were there probably less than 5 minutes after, since the body hadn't been moved yet.
I did the same thing as you - called my mom, sat down for a little bit, and had some water.
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Hong Kong9157 Posts
if you feel like you need counseling, go seek out help.
that being said, I once had a harrowing experience involving having to save someone's life and I didn't feel right afterwards until I was able to have a talk with my mother who works in a hospital about how she deals with that sort of stuff on a daily basis. personal experiences with death can rattle a mind.
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I saw a guy die in a motorcycle accident last March. It sounds really dumb, but I didn't take that same street again for a long time just because of the memory of it. It really affected me.
Don't just sit there and think about it, go out and talk about it if it's really bothering you, or else it'll eat away at you. You'll feel much better and it's something that people unfortunately have to see.
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On May 19 2013 09:00 GoShox wrote:
I saw a guy die in a motorcycle accident last March. It sounds really dumb, but I didn't take that same street again for a long time just because of the memory of it. It really affected me.
Don't just sit there and think about it, go out and talk about it if it's really bothering you, or else it'll eat away at you. You'll feel much better and it's something that people unfortunately have to see.
It's not a big deal either way.
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Be thankful that there are people in our society who make it their job to deal with the dead each and every day so that us regular folk don't have to.
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TLADT24920 Posts
You saw just one death but it had a great impact. Now consider that 1.8 people die every second which is quite a fair bit. As mentioned, talk about it with someone if you feel like you need the release and hope you feel better!
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When I was 14 I once went with a buddy of mine to buy some ice-cream in our village. Outside of the ice-cream parlour there was a homeless man.
We went inside, got our ice-cream and went back outside 3 minutes later and the homeless person was just lying there on the floor, dead.
We ate our ice-cream and after some minutes an ambulance arrived.
Quite bizarre, really.
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My friend's dad got stabbed to death. He was always a reckless sort of guy, but it hit home pretty hard. I feel reeally bad for him, because he just retreated into his own little world, used to be a straight-A student and a very strong athlete. Take care of yourself and make sure the girl's alright too.
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Last year a guy suicided into a semi trailer that the company my dad works for owns. It was beyond repair so my dad bought it for $1500. We are going to strip the running gear and use the deck as a bridge.
http://fraudandscam.com/scam-articles/dan-gaub-yakima-wa-con-man/
The moral of the story is death is all around us so stop being so scared of it.
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Death can be disturbing if you overthink it. Yet, , it's s natural part of life. Dont try to make too much of it. My mother let me see the corpses of dead family members when they died at a very young age, and I think it was the right thing to do.
By now pretty much the only thing that bothers me about it is people's reaction to it.. unless it's someone close to me ofcourse.
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