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Have you ever seen a dead person in real life?


I have seen mummies and human embryos in a museum so technically yes, but not like a corpse or anything.

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Many times at many wakes
It always gives me the shivers

We buried cousin Walter a few months ago...Very terrible thing to see

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We don't have those in my country luckily, it sounds like a horror film.

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It is pretty unsettling!
You go up to the big box and kneel in front of your dead relative or friend's corpse and say a quick 'Our Father'...the funeral home people do a good job of prettying them up but you just kneel there thinking 'How did it come to this?!?'

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Yeah, no makeup is gonna cover that fact, it's good to respect the dead of course but i'm sure it could traumatize people.

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Truer words were never spoken. ..The toughest part is trying to think of what to say to the immediate family

There really are no words!

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I wouldn't know either, but the most important thing is to show up and be supportive really, words can't really fix grief.

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I was at a close friend's funeral (died young of aneurysm) and on the way out vocally mistook his mother for his grandmother. I was mortified but later felt better as I knew my friend would have absolutely loved it.

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As a big dummy that frequently mortifies himself I feel your pain

Sorry about your pal, we've buried a few young lads around here and it's nothing but grief!

I smiled at your last line, he must have been a champ👍

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Do you mean like an open casket or like watching someone die?

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Someone being dead in front of your eyes in a casket or a bed or whatever.

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Then yes, several times.

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Sorry to hear that.

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Thanks

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Morbid.

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Guess so.

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You've never seen a dead body at a funeral?

Sadly I've seen one of my best friends bodies in a casket after he OD'D, and another best friends body after he tool his own life.

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I haven't, but i'm sorry for your loss, that is some crap you went through.

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Horrible to hear about your buddy...I had a good pal that shot himself in the face cleaning his .380 Browning semi-auto...no magazine but he forgot to clear the chamber

He was about 20, a tragic accident

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That's awful! My friend took his life by, from what I've been told, shooting his wrist and bleeding to death. I had absolutely no clue he was depressed.

It was a hard one to swallow.

My friend who OD'D was awful as well but not too surprising. He had been spiraling downward.

I support the 2nd Amendment, but stories like your friends are why I'll never bear arms.

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Jeez...awful!
Quite sorry to hear that

I've hunted and shot guns with daddyo for ages...He'd smack me right in the grill if I ever did something stupid with a firearm but I respect your opinion

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I think looking at dead people in a coffin is morbid. I'm not sure why people do it. Both of my parents died in a hospital. I said my goodbyes there, they were cremated, and then we had a memorial service. Exactly what I want for myself.

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I would prefer that as well.

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Found a dead guy in a car, crashed into the side of an ice rink when I was 16.

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Scary.

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I didn't stick around long enough, but the cop got there before the paramedics and thought he had a heart attack, causing him to run off the road and into a park down the road from me. The guy never tried to brake and plowed right through the side of the rink. The car was propped up/stuck, and the tires were still spinning. I'm guessing he was there for a while before I drove by.

I knew he was dead immediately though. It was pretty messed up.

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So wait he stuck on the gas since the tires were moving?

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My uncle in the hospital shortly after he died and my grandpa in his coffin during the funeral. It is unnerving.

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I can believe it is.

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Yes. At funerals for family members and friends.

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Sorry.

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