watching another person die

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  1. whimbrel

    whimbrel Wasteland Soldier

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    have you ever seen someone die right before your eyes? do tell

    when i was at summer camp in rhode island we took a trip to the beach and everything was going fine until the weather got really weird. it went from sunny skies to dark clouds in a matter of minutes and the wind really started to pick up. a guy was out way to far in the ocean and he ended up getting caught in the tides. another man, a complete stranger actually, swam out to try to help him but they both ended up stuck. everyone was ordered out of the water and the emergency sirens were going. by the time the lifeguards got to them, the man who tried to help had drowned. i watched the whole thing unfold from the beach
     
  2. Kinky Ramona

    Kinky Ramona Back by popular demand!

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    No, I actually don't think I have. I don't know how I'd react. The closest I've ever gotten was seeing them covering up a guy after a motorcycle accident.
     
  3. wildchild11

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    I saw a man literally collapse. I didn't even know what to do, I just kind of stood there. I wanted to cry but because I was in public, I didn't. It was one of the worst feelings I've ever had. Probably because his entire family was with him and they all ran over and shittttt... oh god. I haven't thought about that in a while.
     
  4. sunshine186

    sunshine186 midnight toker

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    :eek: I've seen the same exact thing.
     
  5. moon_flower

    moon_flower Banned

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    I don't know if this counts, but I watched both my aunt and my grandmother on their way to their deaths.
    My aunt died from breast cancer and her mother died 5 months later from congestive heart failure. I visited both of them in their respective places (my aunt in the cancer care unit in the hospital and my grandmother in the nursing home) about 7 hours before they died.
     
  6. nesta

    nesta Banned

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    i wasn't there at the exact moment of death, but i watched my grandmother die over the course of a couple weeks. she lasted for days after the life support was shut off, too, and her delirium/senility got REALLY bad in the last two or three, with moments of lucidity mixed with complete misunderstanding of what was going on. it was hard to watch how her children reacted, but i was more or less detached, even when i said goodbye before she went and even when i was helping to carry the casket to the grave.

    i don't know, i felt alright about it. not happy, but she'd been miserable and in terrible health for at least a decade. it was just time. it was a release, i'm positive.
     
  7. Duck

    Duck quack. Lifetime Supporter

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    Me three.

    But I saw a guy die too, but I was real young, and not up close, so I'm not sure if it counts.
     
  8. whimbrel

    whimbrel Wasteland Soldier

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    sharing is caring
     
  9. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I’ve been to several comedy clubs in which the performers died on stage :eek:



    Hotwater
     
  10. Death

    Death Grim Reaper Lifetime Supporter

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    I was picking my gf up from her job at a nursing home when as i was whipping into a parking space, they were wheeling a dead body out along the sidewalk adjacent to my parking spot. i had to slam on the brakes so i didnt hit them with my front bumper over the curb.
     
  11. Duck

    Duck quack. Lifetime Supporter

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    Well it was my great uncle, and I was three, and we were friends. He was on his morning walk and me and my grandma were looking out the window, and we saw him (he had his back to us) and she told me to wave to him, and we waved, and next thing I remember is the ambulances down the street.
    He had a heart attack.
     
  12. BraveSirRubin

    BraveSirRubin Members

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    I've seen a whole lot of dead bodies, a couple of deadly car crashes, and some people getting shot.

    My ultimate goal is to surprise ejaculate into someone's face right as they're dying.
     
  13. sunshine186

    sunshine186 midnight toker

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    Last Memorial day I went over to the masoleum. I was walking around the place looking for a family member. I got on the ridiculously old elevator and took it down a few floors. When the doors opened, I took one step out and saw a person in a body bag, right in front of the elevator doors :eek:

    I didn't see anyone die, but it sure freaked the hell out of me.
     
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    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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  15. Yert

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    I was almost the guy who got drowned trying to help a friend. A few years back my 5'6 friend got caught in the riptide and started screaming my name because I was the closest to him out of our group. The water was at like 5'9 so I swam over to him and stood on my tiptoes while I tried to walk him in, but we kept running into dips in the sand bars and he wouldn't let go of my neck. I got him like halfway to shore but he was really panicking so I was trying to get one our other friends to come over and help but they thought we were joking. Eventually I started screaming bloody murder and my friend JC who later went into The Marines swam over and took him the second half of the way. I slowly made my way toward land with absolutely no energy whatsoever. I got to the shore and just straight collapsed on the beach, it's the most exhausted I've ever been in my life.

    Other than that as far as actual deaths I think all I can name is my cat, Jake. I got him when I was 7 and he died earlier this year at 15 years old. I was gently petting him while he took his last breaths on my bed, and then I buried him in my backyard. I cried A LOT.
     
  16. ruski

    ruski Senior Member

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    ive seen a lot of dead bodies.
    ive seen a few people be zipped into body bags after accidents.
    i saw a friend die after a long and painful illness.
     
  17. silverhippy

    silverhippy Comfortably Numb

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    Yes i've seen people die, it's not a pretty site, the last one i watched die was at an air base just across the Mekong river from Laos, a shot up bomber was landing and the tail gunner was shot up very bad they pulled him out and he died in front of me on the tarmac, he never really had a chance..

    Peace
     
  18. whimbrel

    whimbrel Wasteland Soldier

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    !!
     
  19. Arlandis

    Arlandis Visitor

    Make sure you upload it to efukt ;)
     
  20. BraveSirRubin

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    Well, yeah...

    It's not worth it unless someone with cerebral palsy blows a nut to it.
     

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