I See Dead People

[Gunthr]

When I was a kid my little brother and I were trolling along the shoreline for Tigermuskie in Bellevelle Lake outside Detroit.  We came accross a bloated black man floating face down in the water.  He had a rope around his neck with a frayed-off end.  He was wearing a white Tshirt that had grass stain skid marks down the back.  I bumped the body into shore with the boat.  My little brother was making noises kind of like nervously half laughing half crying, poor little guy.  

We went and got my Dad at the marina where we lived.  I heard him call the cops.  He said, "Yeah, c'mon out, looks like we've got another floater."

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Watched my turtles rip live fish for food in aquarium at age 9.  It was really cool because it made so much sense.
Some handsomehunk from my family took me to some pretty brutal movie at the cinema, definitely not the kind of stuff you show to someone unexpecting at 9yo.  I was so pissed that he (never could recall who it was) did that, that I fixed the "trauma" myself that same night.
Was forbidden from watching gory movies at 10yo, parents were pissed and resentful that I obviously broke an important rule when I outsmarted them.  I thought it was pretty stupid of them to take me for such an idiot and setting such a weak example.  Wondered if they actually believed that watching that movie would traumatise me.  Wondered what I should deduce from their own lack of rationality.
Pig and cat dissections of my own at 11 years old.
Various instances since.

But mostly more complaints about witnessing carnage than actual carnage, which is more interesting than cadavers themselves.    
Does anyone cry when a juicy flower is crunched under the sole of a shoe?

[Siaf__csf]

A middle aged woman decided to end it all 800m away from our house.

Rammed an 18-wheeler full speed and got decapitated in the process. Body was so smashed that the coroner folded it up in the bodybag like a swiss knife.

The thing I remember the most vivid was the smell of flesh. Quite close to what I experienced later in a meat cutting establishment - you know a place where they cut and pack the meat coming from the slaughterhouse.

If you haven't been there you can't imagine how potent the smell of mammal flesh can be in a room despite the cooling and desinfectant spray.