Just found a dead body!

[Bubbs]

Out in the forest with my job and we took a forestry road that's not often used and saw in the distance something lying across the road. Instantly thought "shit this doesn't look good". Turned out to be a hiker lying on his front, dead. Went over to make sure but he was stiff as a board.

Really weird because I thought it would have affected me somehow but it was just a surreal feeling of "hmm there's a dead guy there". Suppose it's hard to get your head around something like that anyhow. Just got sent home to relax.

Bit of a strange day, just wondering if Its going to affect me anymore than this? I feel oddly normal.

Anyone else had an experience like this?
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[Joncrete Cungle]

Found more of a skeleton than a body in a ditch when we were out shooting a few years ago. Turned out to be an old tramp that used to wander the lanes and fields, the only thing that bothered me ever so slightly was the fact that no one had noticed he had been vanished / dead for months and months.

[UnknownStuntm...]

How many did you find? 3?

[DrDonnyBrago]

Can I have it back?

[Hetzer]

[haroman666]

I often wonder how i'll react to a dead body...

Probably get a boner.
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[Alpha-9]

Did you not have sex with it?
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[stinkwheel]

You're doing the correct thing in discussing it. Tell people, talk it over. The 100% worst thing you can do with a potentially traumatic situation is experience it then never re-visit it.

How it affects you will all be down to how you rationalise it.

Dead bodies are totally normal, they are totally rational and are garaunteed to happen. Every person you meet will eventually become one.

Doesn't sound like there was foul play involved from the circumstances you describe so someone who enjoys going out for a walk suddenly drops dead while doing so. There are worse ways to go.

Don't feel bad that you have no emotional response. You didn't know this person. They are outside what The Shaggy D.A. referrs to in his signature as your "monkeysphere".
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[mjn51]

unless related, a dead body is just that, no real emotion I found
M.

[GhostRider]

Came across a RTA once where the car had flipped and drivers head had ended up between the asphalt and the top of the right hand window, a mate slid under to check if he was alive but unsuprisingly he was a gonner. Shook us up for a day or so afterwards, I think more because it was sad than anything else. More so when said mates dad who is a paramedic told us that the guy had been speeding home because his wife had phoned up saying their baby had stopped breathing, which it turned out it hadn't stopped breathing after all.

GhostRider
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

[monkeymark]

I watched someone die once, in a not to pleasant way, and it has never affected me as much as I thought it would.
I think about it occasionally but more when others mention something similar and I sometimes think "if I'd have done xyz instead, could I have saved him?".

I suppose everyone deals with these things in a different way.
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[J.M.]

[DrDonnyBrago]

I have seen plenty of dead people at work being wheeled around, most with faces covered, occasionally not - can't say it bothered me tbh. One of the rooms I had meetings in was a training room with various formalin pickled body parts (bits of vulva, cervix, ovaries etc etc). They also had some formalin pickled conjoined twins and foetuses at various stages of development, right from kidney bean to about 6 months for training obstetricians.

The pickled foetuses were actually quite fascinating to look at, can't say I ever had an issue with them being there although some people clearly did and would put a curtain over the display case and they have now been moved due to complaints.

[andym]

I've been in the area minutes after a couple of suicides.... but since I was driving the bus, I didn't really think much of it to be honest... I was more concerned for the more squeamish passengers.

First one was the guy that died of a heart attack in Glasgow... everyone was trying to help him (by holding his tongue out of his mouth, then giving him a drink while still holding it), the only thing that shocked me about that was how hard the paramedic pushed down with the chest compressions...

[duhawkz]

[Bubbs]

Nice to read your responses.

Didn't give full story earlier. So the police turned up and turned the guy over, and he was all rigor mortused and they said there was a considerable amount of blood underneath him. That seemed weird, as if there was some foul play somehow... Who knows though as he was dressed in hiking gear on a common hiking area.

I just want to find out who he was! Feel really had for his family. He must have been in his late 40's and I imagine its likely he had kids and a family although who knows.

I'm thankful it wasn't gory and horrible.
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[Rogerborg]

How went the looting?

[cimbian]

[Andy_Pagin]

[MCW]

Don't be surprised if you get a bit shocked later on. When I was in a sideroom on a high dependency ward and wired to too many machines to move, a young woman walked in to my room and haemorraged to death in front of me. The crash team came and tried to resuscitate her and then left her body on the trolly in my room before the porters came and took her away.

I felt absolutely zilch. I lay there in a drug-induced miasma of self-loathing, thinking I must be a really dreadful person as I had watched someone die and wasn't upset. I fell asleep and woke up about 2 hours later in such deep shock that I ended up in the ICU.

We all react differently to death, and the worst thing is that people don't talk about it, so if our reaction isn't the wailing that you see on the tv, we think there is something wrong with us when there isn't.

[stinkwheel]

[WannaBeDude]

Pics ?
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[Flip]

Post it to me, it'll give the dog something play with.

[daemonoid]

[CaNsA]