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(this thread was spawned by a thread about camping)

have you ever, outside of traditional death ceremonies, seen or found a dead body?

Some people in the other thread were talking about having seen them in rivers and in trees.

What were the circumstances in which you found them? What type of area were you in? How did you react?

I have never seen a dead body, and wonder how I'd react to it...

 

Why would somebody be interested in seeing or finding some shit like that ???

 

yes-
unfortunately the civilized world likes to call it a traditional ceremony

 

She said outside of a traditional ceremony, jack...like accidentally coming across a decomposing corpse in a field, not an embalmed body in a coffin.

I have not, but my dad has. When he was a young man reading gas meters for a living, a crazy lady asked him to take a look at her husband because he was not eating the food she kept giving him...the guy had been dead awhile...uke:

 

i tried to give cpr to a dead body once.

 

A firefighter friend had to go into a hoarder's apartment and search through the mounds of crap because of a "smell" complaint...

He was the new guy so they made him go in...and yup, the smell was rotting corpse. Guy had died in his piles of filth.

 

i saw a guy that had been hit by a train... somebody attacked him while he was hunting and laid his body across the tracks. guts everywhere.

and another time i saw a dead body in my house.

 

nope..not yet

 

Yep. Came across one whil I was hiking in the Ozarks. Luckily enough, it was still fresh. Even luckier, I remembered to bring cooking spicies, and that night, me and my buddies ate to HIS heart's content(s).

 

Yup, found a teenage girl hanging from a tree. It wasn't a big surprise, but it was unpleasant.

 

awww


no i haven't thank god!!!

just the ceremony ones

 

I know, right?

it was amidst this hanging crisis we had in South Wales. About thirty teenagers killed themselves in just under a month, and wrote suicide notes on Facebook.

It was terrible, was on the news every night- put my area on the map for the wrong reasons

 

awww so sad!i remember a teenage girl hung herself in my town, was really sad, she was like 13.

i wouldnt be able to cope finding something like that!!!! were you ok???

 

aww, that's sad too

Yeah, I wasn't the first there to be fair. I was in the woods behind my old home with a friend and we saw two guys shouting at each other

turns out they had found what they found. I took one glance and refused to look again. Just waited with them until the ambulance came.

I just shuddered, blah.

 

There are no circumstances under which suicide should become a social trend...

 

I know, that's the power of Facebook and Myspace

they wanted the tributes and attention from their death, I know it sounds weird but that was allegedly a good enough reason.

 

I was the first person to come across a head on collision a few years ago. Bad, bad scene. I could never be a paramedic (although they say you can get desensitized to anything).

 

i feel like i would remember if i had seen a body outside of funerals. the only possible exception could be a couple car crashes i've driven past where the rescue crews were pulling out people that may or may not have still been alive.

since nobody in this thread said anything about being interested in it, i can only assume you're referring to the movie the thread was named after.

well, that movie was about 4 kids, who had probably never seen a dead body before. when you're a kid, trying to learn about the world around you, seeing a lifeless body sounds like a pretty interesting thing to experience. death is a pretty big mystery to an adult, let alone a 12-year-old.

 

Yeah. I can understand how it'd be powerful for a group suicide. But from the sound of it, one person did it, and then others took the idea and did the same thing.
What I'm saying is that suicide should be a decision that you don't just make after stumbling across the concept on a social networking site.

You can. It's really not-good for you mentally though. I read a really good article once about desensitization and the mental effects that it can have on a person.

And if I remember correctly, once the kids finally got to where the body was, they began to decide that maybe they didn't want to see it after all, or something.

But yeah, as I'minmyunderwear said, it's pretty much curiosity. Same reason people paid for freakshows. It's human nature to want to see what we probably shouldn't.

 

I definitely agree with you on that.