Anyone experienced dead bodies?Update photos/home #149

[herfrds]

CariLynn with me it was burned motor oil. I couldn't even check the oil in my vehicles, the smell would set me to shaking.
It was a head on collision. One of the fatalities was a pregnant woman.

You just never forget that stuff.

 

[EweSheep]

Oh no!!!!!!!!! That's terrible!

 

[Catstar68]

I've seen plenty of dead bodies - volunteer AEMT in NY for 5 years. I started riding the ambulance at 16 as a student so I got exposed to it early. Car accidents, elderly people passing, suicides and homicides. I've seen too many even in the past few years since I tend to stop if I see an accident and no one is on the scene. The last 2 I wish I never did - and I'll leave it at that.
I guess I'm not afraid of death itself. Mostly I'm worried about the dying process. I always kid that my greatest fear is the 6 minutes before biological death but I know that it can be a long, hard trip before that. I watched my grandmother, 87 and a lifelong smoker, struggle to breath for 12 hours before she finally went. It was awful! The sounds, the haunted look, her open mouth gasping like a fish. She couldn't speak and she just looked terrified. I wondered if the cigarettes were worth that kind of death but I suppose it was a moot point. I've never smoked, I'm a bit of a health fanatic but please God, let me go quick. I hope I go fast in my old age jogging to the store to get wine and chocolate...and get hit by a falling piano. Wearing clean underwear.

Give my relatives something to laugh about. "Did I ever tell you about my great-great aunt Karen? Well, she was a hoot. Died when a piano fell on her while jogging to her boyfriend's place across town. Coroner said she was wearing the cutest low-rise hipster panties with pictures of chicks on them that said 'ONE HOT CHICK'. Ha. Crazy old woman."

 

[EweSheep]

Clean underwears? Now that is something my mother always told me, and harped on about it! Remember to wear a clean underwear before you step outside to drive somewhere! You never know what will happen when you get into an accident and they WILL check your underwears!

I dunno if that is true that the personnel will check your underwears. Hubby said no, they do not unless you are delivering a baby or colon problems.

 

[noodleroo]

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This is not necessary; the EMTs are just going to cut them off of you....

 

[EweSheep]

Oh reallllllllly???????? Well make it a nice clean well used underwears!

 

[Catstar68]

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This is not necessary; the EMTs are just going to cut them off of you....

This is true. We had a victim of a car accident in the back of the ambulance and had to cut his down jacket off him. You can only imagine what it looked like when we opened the ambulance door when we got to the hospital.

He turned out to be fine but we all looked like giant molting chickens.

 

[EweSheep]

Down jacket????

I can picture a bunch of feathers all over the floor, right?

 

[EweSheep]

 

[Catstar68]

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This was a very fluffy jacket apparently. Clouds of down and feathers rolled out. We were finding feathers in the ambulance for days...no amount of cleaning could get them all. The ER entrance looked like it had snowed.
Moral of the story - in Shirley, NY if you are in a car accident wearing a down jacket you will probably not make it.

just kidding. everyone turned out fine so we could have a good laugh over the whole thing.