Have you ever seen a dead person IRL?

[Qonfused]

I've seen both of my grandmothers, my grandfather, and a few distant relatives dead.

 

[Ennui]

You said the guy on the bike had ran a red light....

I think being on a bus that runs over and kills someone is pretty disturbing regardless of whether it's his fault or yours

 

[Baal]

I think being on a bus that runs over and kills someone is pretty disturbing regardless of whether it's his fault or yours

Yea but he said "the driver would probably not be allowed to drive again."

 

[theotherguy]

No, never

 

[Krynn72]

I voted no, but thats before I read that Funerals count. Counting funerals I have seen two, my cousin and my grandfather.

EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, I may have seen another. When I first moved to where I am living now I saw a kid and his bike underneath a car. The kid wasnt moving, so he may have been dead.

 

[brink's]

yes, my father and my best friend


06 was a shitty year.

 

[Reginald]

You said the guy on the bike had ran a red light....

Yeah. I don't know why the bus driver was blamed either.

 

[Geogaddi]

Not outside of a casket. Speaking of caskets, why the hell would you want an open casket?

 

[Terminator]

Can't remember tbh, might have seen someone dead in road crash or something.

 

[Baal]

Not outside of a casket. Speaking of caskets, why the hell would you want an open casket?

Depends if it's a funeral or a wake.

I believe few funerals have open caskets, but the "wake" which is usually held at the funeral home is almost always open casket I believe.

I think it's for praying or something; stuff I didn't do at either of the ones I went to.

I kind of compare it to a wedding, except in reverse. Anyone who remotely knows the bride or groom shows up at the wedding, while only close family and friends are invited to the reception.

Well only close family and friends go to the wake, generally. But funerals have much higher "attendence"

 

[dream431ca]

My uncle, grandma, a friend and aunt.

 

[Qonfused]

Open caskets allow for grieving. Not like you couldn't have any with a closed casket but... meh.

 

[Shippi]

.

 

[Steven]

Grandfather in an open casket.

 

[Stigmata]

My dad on his deathbed. The first half of summer '06 sucked.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Don't think so, no. Trying to remember if I've ever been to an open casket funeral, but I don't think I have. I've thought about it and I'm really not sure how I'd react if I did see one up close...

 

[co05]

Nope, all of my immediate family members who've died were cremated.

 

[63]

I watched my grandfather die in bed.

 

[joule]

Nerp.

 

[Zephos]

At a funeral.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Yes. I'm actually surprised at how many people have never. Not that it should be super common or anything good but it's sorta something you come across and can't do anything about in life.

 

[Jintor]

Funeral.

Granddad got reincarnated as a cricket, apparently.

 

[Darkside55]

My grandfather, his mother (my nana), and a bum I saw whose neck had been snapped in SF Chinatown.

 

[ktimekiller]

i once saw a dead body on the street after a car accident.

hey me too!

I think i saw a piece of his flesh on the street.

 

[JNightshade]

My grandfather, his mother (my nana), and a bum I saw whose neck had been snapped in SF Chinatown.

Shit! I thought I hid that body well enough...

 

[Asus]

I've seen been to several open casket visitations. Family members and one for a guy I knew from high school. Most of the time they look quite ghostly since it's days after they have passed away.

Although I've never seen someone die.

 

[Stigmata]

Although I've never seen someone die.

Neither have I. But there's a documentary called Dying at Grace in which there is at least one on-camera death. I watched in my Documentary Cinema class last term, up until the one hour mark. No deaths at that point, but everything was painfully and uncomfortably candid.

 

[Ridge]

When I was 7 years old, I was living in Palmdale, California, and my next door neighbor was sadly murdered when he walked into his house in the middle of it being robbed.

The whole cul-de-sac was filled with cops, paramedics and even a sherriff's chopper all day. I was riding my bicycle around the street and happened to be coming right up to his house when they rolled out the stretcher. He ws wrapped up tightly, but it was still a pretty creepy experience.

6 months later we moved here to Colorado.

 

[Lucid]

Never, I've only been to maybe 2 funerals...

Both of them very bad car accidents...