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Remember the first time you saw a dead body? Who was it? How did you feel? My first experience was when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I snuck into a house I'd been warned not to go into. I sat outside for a bit and watched people come and go, dabbing at their eyes and huddling in groups around the door, speaking quietly. When I pushed open the door and walked in, I nearly shat myself with fright. There, laid out, with candles all around the bed was the oldest, pastiest-faced hag I'd ever seen with what looked like bits of superglue holding her downturned mouth closed. It was a rural wake and there were women sitting around keening and rocking backwards and forwards. My legs actually buckled and it took me quite a few minutes to find the strength to scarper out of there as quickly as I could. I think I then experienced my first panic attack.

I'm still not too good around dead bods.

― penelope_11, Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never seen a dead body. I think I'm too de-sensitised to be effected these days.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"I have just realised that I have never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. That's what comes of living in a cul-de-sac."

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

First time I saw a dead body was a couple of months ago, before my grandma's funeral. She looked a bit like the singer from The Vines.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

To my knowledge, I have yet to view a dead body. I wonder if this is somehow strange or unusual.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Cadavers in anatomy labs. Fortunately, that's my only encounter with them.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Apart from telly I dont think I've seen one either. Nor been to a funeral.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

An old man died waiting for the 37 bus outside of JAGS. It hadn't been that long, really. I wasn't sure he was dead at the time, as the bus came before the ambulance arrived. Some other people told me the next day that they'd covered him up.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Nor been to a funeral.

I've been to an interring -- my grandmother's ashes -- but the funeral ceremony itself had occurred two months previous. It felt strange but right, though, since it was just myself, my father, the gravedigger and a family friend who is also an Episcopal priest. Rather than a massive ceremonial event, it was quiet and dignified, very gentle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I too have never seen one nor been to a funeral. The closest I ever came was when I was 10 or 12, walking by the train tracks with my dad and the police intercepted us and told us to take another route because there was a transient who had been hit by a train ahead on the path. We would have a few deaths like this a year, my ex's dad committed suicide this way after I moved away.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw my father's dead body when I was 14. He looked about as he had looked all throughout his disease, except not breathing.

― j c (j c), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw dead bodies all the time. i lived in an area with a lot of old people, and when the ambulance came i would watch them defibrillate my neighbors and sometimes they lived by mostly they died. i guess this was from ages 10-12.

at 11 i went to my first open-casket viewing; i just took my cues from the adults. it seemed strange to me that i had played chess with him just the week before. seriously.

then later, my senior year in high school, i saw a few dead and near-dead as a part-time admitting clerk in the emergency room. the dead didn't bother me so much as the very ill and injured.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too. Amputees freak me out for some reason.

I saw a dead (presumably) homeless guy on the sidewalk the other day though. I appalled myself by first thinking "damn i wish i had my camera".

― mouse, Friday, 23 April 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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