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@runsyellowlites: Lovely. I wonder why they asked them to watch their boat?
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I've been to some open casket funerals/viewing. Apart from that...
-In 9th grade my biology class took a field trip to a cadaver lab.
-I've also been to the bodies exhibit.
-When traveling in Honduras I was on a bus, on the window seat, and saw a guy splayed out in the middle of the road. He was very obviously hit by a car as he was running across the (busy) 4-lane highway. So. Much. Blood. -
@BananaPancakes: they were just there & I think all the officers were trying to oversee the search.... Really what are you gonna tell the sheriff, no?.. Lol
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As a nurses aide I had seen a few and had to do after life care. I helped clean them up before the mortuary took them.
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No (also Jewish). I am very thankful that we don't do open caskets! If I ever go to a funeral with an open casket, I won't be getting close.
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Nope. I've been to two funerals, both closed casket.
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Yes, I'm a doctor.
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went to my first wake last month, which was my first time seeing an embalmed body. but a year ago i saw a homeless man on the street who had died, people were trying to resuscitate him but i think he had been gone for a while. very sad.
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Only my grandmother's, in 2001 and S the morning after I delivered her last March. I had asked the nurses the night I delivered to clean her up a little and give me time before I viewed her.
Both times I felt...uncomfortable. I don't know any other way to describe it.
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Yes. I've been to several open casket funerals. I also saw the body of a man who was hit by a car on Christmas.
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Way too many to count. Many funerals, starting at 6 years old, as well as being in the hospital when someone passed (a few different times).
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Yes, a lot. All funerals I have been to are open casket.
@keiki_mama: That's what I was thinking of when the thread stated dead body. LOL
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Yep. A bunch. And I've been present during two of my granparents' deaths. Doesn't bother me. Dead animals make me flip though!
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Yes, funerals like most. I was privileged to be with my husband and his family when my FIL passed away in in-patient hospice. I'll never forget that last moment. He was a wonderful man.
And also that year of gross anatomy in school. We were so scared when we lifted the body out of the tank and couldn't bring ourselves to pull back the tarp!
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Yes. Almost every funeral I've been to was open casket.
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Yes at funerals (too many) and a suicide. I could have done without them all, the images are burned in my head.
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yes, at funerals. and also, about 10 years ago we had a really bad snow storm and the kid(19) that lived upstairs from us died while trying to shovel his car out. so when his family pulled him from his car I saw him.
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Many- I am a nurse.
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Yes, many. First was my grandfather in middle school. Went with my mom shortly after he passed and was there to witness the funeral home coming to pick up the body. :(. Several open casket funerals/viewings after that.
Also experienced something interesting during my study abroad in Eastern Europe. We attended a church service and there was a dead man laid out on a table, his mother and widow crying over him. Very common there for the body to be out in the open for a several days long mourning period. The church was super crowded and I didn't have a choice but to stand right next to the body!
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Just 2. Grandma and my uncle.
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Yes, at many open casket funerals or funeral homes.
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I've watched someone die in front of me and open caskets at funerals, so yes.
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eek, yes. I have had to help with autopsies before during my pre-med days ( the things you do to get into medical school yuck!) then it got worse when we were spending 9 months my first year, 3 days a week, in the gross anatomy lab. Lets jst say, my appetite is still ruined easily by thinking about it. Bless all of those donors though! What a wonderful thing to do in the name of medicine.
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Yes, in several contexts.
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Yes, I was at the hospital shortly after my FIL passed.
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funerals - non at time of death.
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Only at open-casket funerals.
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Yes, wakes/funerals and working in the ER.
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Open casket funerals
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At quite a few funerals, yes. DH and I also witnessed a man attempting to walk across the freeway and be killed. It was horrible. I still feel sick to my stomach just thinking about it.
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At funerals, and at work as a nurse
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Yeah lots, I'm a nurse. Luckily I'm a nurse in long term care so they've all been old people. I couldn't work in a hospital and see younger people, too hard for me.
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Yes. But only at funerals. Thankfully.
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Too many to count, both personally and professionally (I am an NICU nurse, so after death care is a party of my job). Poor S has already seen 2 by 14 months old, we have had 3 family members pass away each year, and I took him in with me to the viewing for my grandparents.
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Only at open casket funerals or wakes, maybe three times. I was a bit creeped out. Husband sees them regularly given that he's a cop in an area with heavy gang activity.
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Yes, several open casket funerals. Also, I was with my father when he died, and I was able to spend time saying good bye to him last year after he died. It was really powerful, and I'm glad I did it.
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I've been to many open casket funerals (my parents always brought us, even as young kids). I've also witnessed a tragic accident that caused someone to die instantly. Through work I've had to review some pretty terrible accident scene photos for wrongful death cases, and I've been to the morgue. Since we went to so many funerals as kids, I'm used to seeing elderly dead bodies, but watching young people die is awful, I can't forget those images/memories..
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Yes. I held a lady last week as she died. Not a relative, a patient. But that wasn't any easier. I have such a problem with death.
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