And I’m not talking about autopsy videos or banned stuff, I’m talking about real life experiences…
Obviously I’ve seen gore, fatalities in traffic accidents and real executions videos but never live… The closest was the body of a guy laying on the concrete from a car accident, I was in a bus going in parallel with that car, but I’m not sure if he was dead…
- SoylentBlake ( @SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ) English31•3 months ago
I witnessed 5 police officers all hit a man on the ground with their tasers. Broad daylight.
Died on the scene of a heart attack. Apparently natural causes. The polices internal investigations found the police did no wrong, imagine that.
Unless you make enough money that you can regularly “donate” to the force, I suggest that you assume they are not there to help you and you protect yourself accordingly
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 5•3 months ago
What country?
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•3 months ago
Not OP, but I would imagine most likely the US, though I admit that is by no means a certainty.
- SoylentBlake ( @SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ) English6•3 months ago
In Tacoma, Wa.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•3 months ago
So, yeah, the US.
- Mubelotix ( @Mubelotix@jlai.lu ) 2•3 months ago
Did you record?
- DrSteveBrule ( @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ) 28•3 months ago
I’m an orderly in an OR that does organ procurements from donors. The patients are already brain dead or otherwise intubated, but still technically alive. When the doctors open them up and get to where the organs are, there is a brief moment of silence and a prewritten letter in their honor is read aloud. After that they are taken off of life support and the organs are ready to be taken. The most interesting part to me is watching the color fade from their intestines. It’s actually very fast from pink to gray.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•3 months ago
The most interesting part to me is watching the color fade from their intestines. It’s actually very fast from pink to gray.
That’s due to oxygen deprivation, right?
- I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 6•3 months ago
Yes. Without hemoglobin or myoglobin, flesh looks very dull. That’s why packaged meat is treated with carbon monoxide, keeps it looking red.
https://www.drweil.com/diet-nutrition/food-safety/is-meat-too-red-to-be-true/
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•3 months ago
Thanks for the education. :)
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) 3•3 months ago
Damn, I could have done without reading that one.
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 1•3 months ago
So how does organ donor work? Let’s say an organ donor dies in a car crash, could their parts be put on ice and transported to the nearest hospital where it’s needed? Or do they need to be rolled in alive?
- DrSteveBrule ( @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ) 3•3 months ago
The hospital I work is not a trauma hospital, so those types of patients dont come to us, but as far as I understand patients must be alive. Organs become unusable fast.
- jehreg ( @jehreg@lemmy.ca ) 20•3 months ago
I felt the very last heartbeat of my step-father while holding his arm, on his death bed. He died peacefully at 98 years of age.
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 15•3 months ago
My grandmother. She was 96. She saw India’s Independence, and lived through the Bengal famine of 1943. What a life! She died in peace surrounded by family though.
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) English11•3 months ago
Yes, but not a person. I was 14, coming back from school, and I saw a kitten bleed to death. I kept walking on my way to home, but it saw us, and kept following and purring at us, limping in pain, maybe asking for water and aid, after it was probably hit by a car, or bitten and thrown around by dogs. It’s flesh wasn’t gouged or anything, there wasn’t anything gory about it, but it was bleeding profusely. I did nothing, because I wasn’t able to process what happened, and continued my way back home.
- 018118055 ( @018118055@sopuli.xyz ) 11•3 months ago
I saw the immediate aftermath. Someone jumped off the 8th floor in an interior atrium after setting off the building fire alarm. I happened to look that way while evacuating and it took a moment to process what I was seeing.
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months ago
Why did the pull the fire alarm!
- 018118055 ( @018118055@sopuli.xyz ) 1•3 months ago
I don’t think we will find out.
- OutlierBlue ( @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ) English10•3 months ago
Technically he was probably already dead, but a guy on a bicycle was killed by a van right in front of my house. I heard a crazy noise followed by screaming so I went out to see. The guy was lying still by the side of the road. His bike was mangled about 30’ down the road where it had been dragged in the undercarriage. And his groceries for dinner that night were scattered along the gutter.
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months ago
Fuck. This is why I don’t wanna drive bikes. Fear of a giant death machine headed my way
- BougieBirdie ( @Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English9•3 months ago
When I was a kid I saw an elderly man get hit by a car. He rolled over the top, which I guess is safer than being run down, but he got a lot of air and hit the pavement hard. Just kept rolling over and over. My parents shooed us away from the scene, but I can’t imagine it ended well for him.
One time I was riding a bus that rear-ended a motorcycle. I didn’t see the collision itself, but the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
We often take for granted how dangerous traffic is. Your life can end in a moment doing something we casually do every day.
I was working in a department store when a middle-aged woman collapsed in front of me. It was really warm, heat exhaustion I supposed. She looked like maybe she was drunk because she was moving kind of erratically, so I went to see if she was okay and she just fell. I’ll never forget the sound her head made hitting the concrete or the fact that she didn’t even blink. Remarkably, she was okay and was up in a few minutes, walked away and everything, really surprised me.
The thing that probably fucked me up the most though was some videos on YouTube. I was working for a video analytics company, and we were trying to build an image classifier that could detect firearms. Well, you need data for that, so we were scraping videos of gun crime. Mostly what we were looking for was armed robbery. Lots of videos put out by the local police of somebody holding up a convenience store, and that wasn’t a big deal. But every now and then you’d find a video of someone getting shot and that really affected me. Eight hours a day of looking at gun crime with the occasional homicide peppered in was a recipe for disaster. I definitely needed therapy after that job.
- MagicShel ( @MagicShel@programming.dev ) 8•3 months ago
When I was a young teen, I watched my grandparents’ neighbor die of a heart attack in his boat. He leaned over - I thought to get a life jacket or something - and his boat just kept circling backwards. Not much to say. It took the ambulance over an hour to arrive. There was a very small pool of blood, maybe 2-3 inches in diameter, on the floor of the boat.
That’s it. Nothing exciting or traumatic.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•3 months ago
Wait, heart attacks can result in blood loss?
- darvit ( @darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl ) 4•3 months ago
Perhaps he hit something when he fell over.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•3 months ago
True.
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 6•3 months ago
I was within 8 meters of someone dying twice, the second time I was less than 2 meters away.
The first was a truck driver with a load of cast iron pipes. Truck was on a slight angle, and when he undid the straps the load fell on him.
Second time was a load of stone going up a scaffold on a hoist, it hadn’t been secured properly and a guy cut through the exclusion zone and this 100kg stone window cill just…yeah. There wasn’t really a lot left of the top third of him.
I’ve had a lot of therapy about these and I still dream about the second one.
- Ænima ( @mjhelto@lemm.ee ) 5•3 months ago
When I was a Boy Scout, one summer at camp, a bad storm had rolled in around 7-8pm. We had just finished dinner and made it back to our campsites when the administration decided to issue the alarm urging scouts to return to the central lodge due to sever weather being reported.
Us and another local scout unit were at a site situated at the top of a very large hill. Like, you’d get off a bike if you had to go up this thing. That kind of hill. As soon as the alarm sounded to get down to the central lodge, we booked it down the hill. As did the other scout unit from our area
A little wet but otherwise fine, all the scouts and staff from the area entered the lodge and sat on the benches. From my perspective, I heard some gasps, a thud, and some screaming for help. I had no idea what was going on initially. Came to find out that the troop leader of the other local scouts had lurched over and fell on the ground, apparently suffering from a heart attack.
All of us scouts, the leaders son included, had to sit there and watch a troop leader and father die before their eyes. It took the ambulance 30 minutes or so to get up to the campsite. The local scout administration performed CPR and did everything they could to keep him alive. He was probably dead soon after hitting the floor of the lodge.
I have never forgotten this and is one of the primary reasons I try to take care of myself. Dude was a large guy but a great leader based on what I saw of him. I felt bad for his troop and his family. I hope that family and troop managed to get closure.
I think the son was getting or had gotten that red arrow sash they give out for something scouts can do. Sorry, it’s been 20-years since I was in scouts.
- _NoName_ ( @JayDee@lemmy.ml ) 5•3 months ago
Saw the aftermath of a pretty bad motorcycle accident, with the rider receiving CPR. It was confirmed later by the news that they didn’t make it. I was stuck at a light and able to see the scene for a few solid minutes, but it really didn’t impact me heavily. Honestly it felt even less relevant than footage I’d seen before since I was having to actually drive and my attention couldn’t be put entirely on the accident.
In contrast, I was there for a friend putting their dog down. The amount of emotion everyone was going through was much more pronounced - you could physically feel the sadness around you.
Seeing death always has an uneasy aspect to it, but I think the real impact comes from social ceremony. We choose to feel pain over it as a way to heal, I think.
- Berttheduck ( @Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 months ago
Yup, several times. The joys of working in healthcare.
- cheesymoonshadow ( @cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ) 4•3 months ago
Another “already dead” anecdote:
I was commuting home from school when my ride drove past the immediate aftermath of an accident where a guy was run over by a bus. The tire
hashad gone over his head and there was brain matter splattered on the road. The thing I remember most is that the pulp-y remnants of his head had tire tread marks on it. - lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) 4•3 months ago
I watched my grandfather die when they took him off life support. Also had a cat die in my arms. Cannot recommend either experience.