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[B'z-chan]

I was thinking about this yesterday as i was coming home. How many people have phsycially witnessed someone die. Or at least on the way out.

Earlier yesterday i saw this group of guys just waiting for a bus. The second after that i heard a woosh. Come to look at what happened. It seemed that this guy was knocked out. So hard in fact that he died on gold pavement. Right before my eyes. It was freaky, the fact it happened in pure daylight got to me also.

That was the first time i think i've seen someone go from living to dead in a short time. Other than a motorcycle acident where some guys head was there one second and choped of the next. But i didnt stick around to find out how that ended up.

 

[Goreomedy]

Other than a motorcycle acident where some guys head was there one second and choped of the next. But i didnt stick around to find out how that ended up.

He probably survived.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I saw my grandad die in a hospital bed. He made a "death rattle"

:lol I think that motorcycle guy will pull through.

 

[Phoenix]

Yes. When I was in high school I worked on a community service project at a nursing home talking to the folks and helping out buy serving food and such and while taking up the dishes from one of the rooms, one of the men died. I was present for the whole thing and actually watched him take his last breath as the nurses came in and tried to revive him.

Never forget it.

After that, Jesuit considered my service project done and sent me to a counselor.

 

[Chipopo]

He probably survived.

:lol

 

[whytemyke]

Never seen anyone actually die in front of me, as far as I can remember. I have seen an autopsy done before, and that was some pretty odd stuff. Had a friend I worked with (guy was in his 80's but him and I gave each other shit for the past 5 years) that died right after work, and that was kinda weird knowing that it was only a matter of hours from him calling me a piece of shit to him dying.

But yeah. Nothing in front of me really. Hm.

 

[Ryck]

My grandfather died right in front of me at the hospital ......

 

[kumanoki]

Never seen anyone die, but I want to.

 

[Matrix]

My grandfather

 

[Anyanka]

I found a patient dead at work.

 

[Loki]

My grandfather died right in front of me at the hospital ......

Same here, except it was my grandmother.

 

[ScientificNinja]

Twice. First time I was too young to fully understand. Second time happened about 4 months ago. In both cases it was a very slow death. Not pretty.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

just the mail man. But i had knocked him unconcious first, so i didn't really notice anything.

 

[miyuru]

I usually off 'em after they scream.

 

[OmniGamer]

Though I didn't witness the moment of death, My dad was pretty ill from liver cancer...the monday before he passed(which was a wednesday night), the hospital bed finally came, and was set up in my room since my room was the only room with enough space after putting up my bed up against the wall. He was finally a bit more comfortable...that wednesday several family members were over, including my brother...it was around 10pm or so and he seemed to be at rest for the night, so I took the downtime to go into the other room and call my friend for a bit...next thing I know my brother was calling my mom(he was about to leave and went in to say goodnight to my Dad), because he wasn't breathing...so just that fast he passed in his sleep.

 

[Ronok]

My step dad died right infront of me in the living room. He had lung cancer so we knew it was coming, but, the way in which he died wasn't the nicest thing...... He was vomiting etc...... Was one of the scariest things I've ever seen and I felt so useless...... I couldn't do anything, just had to watch and wait for the ambulance.

 

[belgurdo]

Yes. When I was in high school I worked on a community service project at a nursing home talking to the folks and helping out buy serving food and such and while taking up the dishes from one of the rooms, one of the men died. I was present for the whole thing and actually watched him take his last breath as the nurses came in and tried to revive him.

Ah, the ol' "Angel of Death" play, eh? I like how they always say they're fine right before you pull the plug too, but we all know better

 

[BooM235689]

Never seen anyone die, but I want to.

why would you ever want to see someone die?

 

[Warm Machine]

Grandmother on her deathbed. Never actually did see her die. You think the world should just stop when something like that is going on in your life and it is actually annoying to see people you don't know walking around blissfully unaware of someones suffering not 2 blocks from where they are standing. Luckily those moments don't happen too often within ones life so as to dwell on them.

 

[kumanoki]

why would you ever want to see someone die?

So I can know what to expect.

 

[mattx5]

So I can know what to expect.

There's a shortage of chairs in heaven.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Saw a "cyclist vs car" accident on campus once, that the guy on the bike didn't walk away from. I didn't watch him die right there or anything, though, he died in the hospital. Read about it in the paper the next day and got a little freaked out.

...

Oh, my mother. I watched her die. So there you go.

 

[kumanoki]

I'll stand. Heaven ain't that crowded.

Look, I've never seen anyone close to me die. However, I think it's important to see someone or something die. It reaffirms your desire to live. That's why we have funerals, so we can remember the life, thus reaffirming our own without having to witness the ending.

Humans suffer from an irrational fear of death. We are all going to die, no bones about it. So why the fear? I don't fear the before-life, so I don't want to fear the ending, either. Seeing life end, to me, would be a step towards relasing that inherent fear we all have.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Humans suffer from an irrational fear of death. We are all going to die, no bones about it. So why the fear? I don't fear the before-life, so I don't want to fear the ending, either. Seeing life end, to me, would be a step towards relasing that inherent fear we all have.

I suffer a fear of death because I've got too much stuff I want to do and see in life, and I can't bear the thought of the lights just going out before I'm ready for them to.


That being said, I've never seen anyonedie in front of me, but I've seen various suicide videos and the russian soldier videos and whatnot, so I've seen things like that.

 

[AniHawk]

My grandfather's health declined pretty rapidly in 1998 starting from May and ending in November (throat cancer). The last three days of his life, he was sleeping. I know he could hear me because I read him a book, and he smiled a little when I finished. It horrifies me to think that he lacked the ability to open his eyes/talk, but knew what was going on, and ultimately died due to lack of water.

About a month ago, my grandfather (dad's dad this time), was admitted into the hospital due to back pain. Turns out it was cancer. Now he's bedridden and under hospice care, just like my other grandfather was in November of 1998. I visited him yesterday, and helped him into and out of a wheelchair to change his mattress (so he wouldn't get bedsores- he now has an air mattress). The cancer is taking over his nervous system, and he's twitching a lot. He's also incoherent, and he'll stare for a while and mumble off some stuff. When I left as he was going to sleep yesterday, I said goodbye, and he squeezed my hand and said, "Goodbye, bud." So he still recognizes people. We had a long private conversation about 3 weeks ago when we found out that the chemotherapy would only make him sick, and the radiation would only make him comfortable. He said he never expected to live this long...

 

[Pedigree Chum]

I suffer a fear of death because I've got too much stuff I want to do and see in life, and I can't bear the thought of the lights just going out before I'm ready for them to.


That being said, I've never seen anyonedie in front of me, but I've seen various suicide videos and the russian soldier videos and whatnot, so I've seen things like that.

I'm more worried about all the bad shit I've done in my life, I want more time to be able to repent/set things right before i die. After that I'll welcome death with open arms, this word is fleeting anyways.

 

[Future Trunks]

Yes. When I was in high school I worked on a community service project at a nursing home talking to the folks and helping out buy serving food and such and while taking up the dishes from one of the rooms, one of the men died. I was present for the whole thing and actually watched him take his last breath as the nurses came in and tried to revive him.

Never forget it.

After that, Jesuit considered my service project done and sent me to a counselor.

Jesuit High School?? How many of these places are there??!!

I went to the one in Tampa for a year.

 

[nitewulf]

my neighbor died when i was a kid, about 9 or 10. he had a brain tumor, went to singapore to get it checked out but was told that it was inoperable. so we all knew he was drying. now he was one of those guys who hung out with the neighborhood kids, played with us, helped us make tree houses and stuff like that, so he was pretty close to us.
i didnt watch it or anything, but they lived right next door, and when he died his wife started screaming and crying, so we could hear it through the walls...and we knew.

 

[TheOMan]

This is very odd....today I was thinking about a time where I almost drowned on a school field trip (somebody actually saved me). All I remember is going under for the last time and the next thing I know I'm waking up on the beach next to the guy that saved me.

The strange thing is that on the very same trip a kid in my class did drown. I was considering starting a topic about it. So yeah, I guess I've seen somebody "die". Very saddening

 

[Mermandala]

When I was younger my family lived across the street from a redneck biker bar. There was lotsa drunken fights, gunplay, and a few murders. When a really rowdy fight got cracking I'd watch it out the window(from a top bunk) until the cops came to bust it up. One night a guy pulled out a hand gun and stuck it in a dude's face and that was that. I was staring at the guy that got shot, he was in the middle of a one-eyed, spittle-flinging "FuK U Budd*BLAM*. It was fast but clear - violent head jerk with moderate blood spray - then the guy rolled off the porch dead. He'd been holding a beer in his right hand and was poking the air in front of gun dude's face. He dropped the beer.

I'd often imagine drunken bikers banging on the window, sometimes zombified, to match the graves we had in our back yard. I never slept much anyhow.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

My Mother, I was 14 it was a car crash we hit a small tree on the side of the road, my sister went flying forward hitting the windshield then coming back to rest all bloody on my lap.

We both were in the back seat I had my seatbelt on so I was the only one awake through the whole thing. My Mother was crushed in the driver's seat.

Seeing someone you love die like that really sucks.
The images are still so clear in my head, no wonder I am so fucked up 18 years later

 

[J2 Cool]

Thankfully, I never have but that's horrifying Smiles and Cries. I think about car crashes a lot and how sudden they are. How worried I'd be for each person in my family in one. It's pretty damn scary.

 

[Jonnyram]

After reading S&C's tale, I'm almost in tears. I really feel sorry for you I don't think any human can get over that kind of event.

 

[Dice]

*reads S&C's story* *jaw drops*

I haven't, but I've had horrible, incredibly vivid nightmares that felt the same at the time.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I can't say I have moved on because I only knew my mother for about 5 years.
I was in Haiti my birthplace for 10 years before I moved to the US to be with her.
She worked hard here to make it so I still try to live on but most of the time I am not a happy person.

Those images suck.

 

[kumanoki]

I can't say I have moved on because I only knew my mother for about 5 years.
I was in Haiti my birthplace for 10 years before I moved to the US to be with her.
She worked hard here to make it so I still try to live on but most of the time I am not a happy person.

Those images suck.

My god, that's terrible. You have my condolences, S&C.

 

[Lakitu]

I witnessed my Uncle die on his hospital bed, he barely could recognize anyone and all of a sudden he recognized me, and gave me a smile, and started saying my name and then he put out his hand so I could hold it then I did for a bit. Then he died.

Edit: I missed Smiles and Cries post, that's horrible you have my condolences

 

[demi]

My stalker arrives on saturday, so there may be a chance I will die.


Boy, that'll suck. I'm depressed now.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Yes. When I was in high school I worked on a community service project at a nursing home talking to the folks and helping out buy serving food and such and while taking up the dishes from one of the rooms, one of the men died. I was present for the whole thing and actually watched him take his last breath as the nurses came in and tried to revive him.

Never forget it.

After that, Jesuit considered my service project done and sent me to a counselor.

maybe next time you'll get that food there a day or two earlier

 

[Ned Flanders]

He probably survived.

I think that motorcycle guy will pull through.

maybe next time you'll get that food there a day or two earlier

 

[ourumov]

Yes, back when I was 17 I used to go cycling on summer's mornings (now I just go running) to a near mountain of Barcelona.
Everything was going fine when I saw a guy doing weird things...Since the world is full of crazy people, I ignored him and continued. When reaching the end of the road and returning back. I saw him lying on the ground along with another biker who had stopped near him.
He was shaking a lot like if he had epilepsia or something like this...I suggested puting a stick into his mouth to avoid him bitting his tongue...and then I went to look for help, actually the forestal police was near so I went for them. I reached the police and they called an ambulance.
When the ambulance arrived the guy no longer shaked...They tried to re-animate him but he didn't answer...He died there.

I guess he died because an insolation...temperature on summers is very high there and the sun bits...Sometimes I've had problems due to this like feeling dizzy but well...that was very different.

 

[Borys]

I'm 24 and I've already buried 5 members of my family in the last 10 years.

 

[Jeffahn]

School kid was sitting across from me on train. He then decided that the wanted to leave the train as it pulled away from the platform. He landed tripped on the spot, pivotted and smacked the back of his head against the concrete and was dead in an instant.

...

 

[Doth Togo]

I've seen a family of five die in an SUV accident (Ford Explorer) as it lost control on I-26 near Columbia, SC, went across the grassy median and hit an eighteen wheeler head on. The SUV flipped four or five times, similar to Halo's Warthog when it gets hit by a grenade, and landed on it's roof.

Everyone died. I found out that they did the next day in the state paper.

 

[God's Hand]

I helped someone die. Not one of my happiest memories, but she would have died from her disease sooner or later. She wanted to go on her own terms instead of being stuck in a hospital bed, so yeah. I'm glad it happened the way it did.

It's only sad if you view death as something bad. I just see it as finally being free.

 

[AirBrian]

Yes. When I was in high school I worked on a community service project at a nursing home talking to the folks and helping out buy serving food and such and while taking up the dishes from one of the rooms, one of the men died. I was present for the whole thing and actually watched him take his last breath as the nurses came in and tried to revive him.

Never forget it.

After that, Jesuit considered my service project done and sent me to a counselor.

Jesuit High School?? How many of these places are there??!!

I went to the one in Tampa for a year.

:lol I thought the same thing. There's a Jusuit HS in Dallas too.

On a serious note, I've never seen anyone die before me, but when my Mom was younger, she discovered a dead body while fishing.

 

[SantaC]

I was thinking about this yesterday as i was coming home. How many people have phsycially witnessed someone die. Or at least on the way out.
.

Me. I saw my dad die in his bed. Cancer.

 

[mrmyth]

Saw a kid get shot less than twenty feet from where I was standing. Another kid pointed a gun at his head and blam. I still remember the red smoke-like blood spray that kinda lingered in the air for a sec. The victim fell on the sidewalk with his shoulder hitting the curb. So there he is, a complete expression of surpise still on his face, eyes blank, with a small black hole on the bridge of his nose next to his right eye, and pinkish-grey shit dripping into the gutter.

Another one was the little sister of a girlfriend. She died of menigitis in a hospital. The whole family was lightskinned Mexican. It was incredibly sad to watch her stop breathing, and then her skin turn pale white almost instantly.

 

[Malakhov]

I saw a truck run over someone on bike on a red light once. I ran to help the guy who got hit but as soon as I got 3 feets from him I witnessed that his head had been ran on it and that his brain was all over the pavement. It took me a while to recover from that, still have that horrible image in my mind.

 

[AirBrian]

Saw a kid get shot less than twenty feet from where I was standing. Another kid pointed a gun at his head and blam. I still remember the red smoke-like blood spray that kinda lingered in the air for a sec. The victim fell on the sidewalk with his shoulder hitting the curb. So there he is, a complete expression of surpise still on his face, eyes blank, with a small black hole on the bridge of his nose next to his right eye, and pinkish-grey shit dripping into the gutter.

Holy shit. What happened to the killer?