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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Pooface on June 30, 2005, 10:41:03 AM
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LOL, ok.
some of you may know that im doing work experience in a hospital. today, i went to go and help in the mortuary :eek:
saw a couple of dead bodies, but actually, found them quite interesting, being the first time ive ever seen a dead body:lol
saw the post mortem room too, which was well scary :eek: . the lights were all off, and the place looked like area 51 :)
so i was wondering, what was the first time any of you guys saw a dead body, if at all, and what were your thoughts. you know, all the doctors find it quite funny that the little n00bs puke, and thats why i was sent there. ha ha ha, the guys were quite amazed to see me all interested :D
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The morbid exuberance of youth..
It ever cross yer young mind that the experience you ask about might be a lil more mind numbing and life changing than a sterile lab?
I think I'll pass on this one.
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This has the potential for very poor taste. You might consider pulling the plug on this one.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
It ever cross yer young mind that the experience you ask about might be a lil more mind numbing and life changing than a sterile lab?
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not INteresting.
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In college I needed to work to support myself and pay for school. I got a job working every other night and weekend in a mortuary. Saw lots of dead people, helped on a couple autopsy's done in the mortuary as well. Had contact with a few "ghosts" but otherwise was pretty non eventfull unti the place got burglarized one night when I was on duty. They had a small apartment for us to sleep in during the night at the far end of the building. It got real interesting when the burglar tried coming back the following night.
It's still a sad business, however necessary, to be in. I don't miss it at all.
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It's not something easy to handle when you are for example trying to collect all the parts of what we call a "soma".
It's a traumatic experience you'll keep with you all your life long.
Like Hangtime I'll pass on this one.
A contrario to HangTime I had the chance to not knowing the "soma" I had to work on.
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no no no, i dint mean it like that. i realise that it is something that sticks with you for the rest of your life. i meant it that it was interesting to see how it all works. i sure wont miss it either :)
pretty freaky place with th lights off :)
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First dead body i ever saw was a girl we tried to save after finding her lifeless in the water eleven years ago last week. (yes you never forget)
After that it has been 3 close family members over the recent years and that wasnt a hoot either. However, i do belive it is "healthy" to see your loved once right away to start the greif process.
Nothing funny or interesting about seeing dead people at all.
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no you guys dont uderstand. i didnt find the dead people funny or interesting. i found the process interesting (i can see i didnt phrase this very well):( the way they were presented and kept all nice and neat, ans still looked very alive. you know, the care that was put into keeping them
i personally believe death to be just the next step, and i know some dont, so maybe your right. maybe not a truly suitible post. sorry, i dont know the 'controls' off by heart. how do you delete one?
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No worries pooface, I didnt find your post provocative in any way :)
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A lady that had been run over by a bus outside the Marin County Civic Center. Her blood had run across the street and was pooling in the gutter.:(
Newspaper article the next day said she had just missed the bus and ran up along side it trying to get the driver's attention, but tripped and the rear wheels followed a path outside of the front wheels as it pulled out. The driver had no idea that it had happened and the CHP had to track down the bus.
Dying just trying to catch the bus. Ich.
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ouch, of course the only people i saw had died peacefully in a hospital, so i cant say i have experience. poor old woman:(
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She was about 40. Dressed in a woman's business suit.
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Pooface,
I didn't find anything controversial in your post either. Death is a natural process. Just try to not die and see what happens. It gets to all of us and all you can do is life the life you have to the best of your ability and have as few regrets as possible at the end. Life is a wonderful experiance, if you let it be, and when you're done (and you believe it to be so) another one awaits you.
I have read a blurb ih a book that stated you can judge how civilized a society is by how they care for their dead. True or not, I don't know but I'd like to think it is.
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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?
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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.