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Have you ever seen a dead body?
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Have you? did you touch it? It gives me the creeps seeing dead animals not sure how I would react to seeing a dead human.
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It was strange and quite disturbing. I occasionally have nightmares about bodies.
Exactly. You can tell by looking at them that it is just the shell left. The person or soul if you like has flown.
One I really remember was when I was on my motorcycle, heading up the M1 towards Leeds from Sheffield at about 10 at night. I could see hazards flashing ahead, so I slowed down. A couple of lorry drivers were flagging drivers down to get them to drop their speed and had blocked lanes 1 and 2 with their wagons.
I rode past them slowly in the only available lane and there was a body lying in the lane next to me. Looked like a young lad, laid out with one leg sticking up at an awkward angle. I couldn't figure out how he had got there, other than that perhaps he'd been thrown through the lorry's windscreen. It was a heck of a shock and it was all I could to to ride straight until I'd calmed myself down.
It transpired that it was a teenage lad who'd been trying to run across the motorway with his mate. He'd been hit by one car and then by subsequent other vehicles. I don't think the other lad had been hurt.
It was one of the more interesting photography jobs I have done, the hardest part was trying to get an angle that didn't include the dead people as I didn't have model releases from their relatives. I did end up photoshopping out the hand of one old lady as it looked like she was trying to climb out of the coffin.
Not all at the same time.
Turned out they wanted me to identify the body of a colleague who has collapsed and died whilst out of the office.
It was 10 years ago. Still miss him very much but I am so glad he was at home and I was with him. Unlikely as this might sound his last words were "I love you". First and only time he ever said it..
Oh, and when I lived down south Iotherwise local drunk was hit by an emergency vehicle and died at the scene. I seen him as I had gotten off the bus stuck in the queue to walk home.
Was scared silly on my first one as a student, I made the healthcare assistant hold my hand whilst I went behind the curtain to see the patient.
When laying them out, I tend to just talk to them as though they're still there ie, just going to turn you now Mrs Smith and give your back a wipe. It's for my sake, not theirs.
Luckily I've not yet seen the dead body of someone I know.
That must have given you a lot of comfort at such a hard time.
Don't know if I really want to know... but will ask anyway.. you don't have to answer but what do you do?
It was funny because I only realised what he said several hours after he had died. He knew he was dying.
I also so my darling mum dying and dead. She suffered from kidney failure. She was only 58. That was very tough
When my parents died I was offered the chance to see them afterwards, but I chose not to.