I saw a lady die.

[Huaco Kid]

In walmart.  I saw her start stumbling and crashing into the shelves,  then she went down.  She didn't look like a druggie. She was immediately attended to.

When I passed by later, the EMS was with her.

When I passed by again,  the EMS, a cop, and everyone else had moved back from her.  She was still laying there, motionless.

 

[Huaco Kid]

The walmart aisle is the very last place I'd want to expire.

I've always thought just dropping dead, suddenly, would probably be the best way to go.

I'm fully expecting, hoping, to go in a fashion that only leaves tiny pieces.

 

Walmart would be the worst.

[Zonny]

Well. That's disturbing. Sorry you had to witness that.

 

[willie-pete]

I want to go out in my sleep like my Grandfather.

 

 

 

 

 

Not yelling and screaming like his passengers.

[RenoF250]

How old?  Sounds like maybe a stroke or something in her head went sideways.  Yeah Walmart would not be my choice.

[Huaco Kid]

1 hour ago, RenoF250 said:

How old?  Sounds like maybe a stroke or something in her head went sideways.  Yeah Walmart would not be my choice.

Looked about middle-aged; maybe +a little bit.  She looked a little overweight,  which is tiny, by today's standards.

[Huaco Kid]

13 hours ago, Zonny said:

Well. That's disturbing. Sorry you had to witness that.

 

Things like that make you pause, and think about things.

[janice6]

I saw an elderly woman have a terminal stroke, a couple of people down from me in church when I was in grade school.  I felt bad that she succumbed but remember viewing it as a learning experience.

[willie-pete]

Saw my first DB at 9 or 10 YO.  My father was LE in a small town in Florida and he was taking us 5 kids to Sunday School in his patrol car ( pretty laid back town -picture Mayberry ).  On the way he got a radio call; some guy had passed out and fell through a plate glass window at a gas station, so Sunday School was delayed.

Guy was laying half in - half out of the building with broken glass all around with some sticking in him and he was cut up pretty bad. The strange thing to me at that age was the lack of any blood to speak of.

My father said later it was a massive heart attack and he was DRT before he did a header into the window.

[janice6]

My first experience with a dead person was as a young kid.  I was camping and heard a horrendous car accident occur.  I talked with the apparent survivor while he died,  We had a strained conversation with him staggering around while his brain was oozing out of a crack in his skull from top, to the back of his neck.  While he died, he was continually asking about his friend that was already dead.

Cops came and shooed me away from the scene.

 

I never had any effects from this.  It was something that happened and that I had no control over.  I was just there as a witness.

 

I guess I have been around a few deaths including some classmates that didn't beat the train to the crossing.  Then we (girlfriend and I) were commandeered with some others, to look for pieces of bodies along the tracks.

Edited April 29, 2018 by janice6

[holyjohnson]

i can think of a few worse ways to go then WallyWorld.

unless its WallyWorld bathroom,that`d be awful.

[RenoF250]

5 hours ago, janice6 said:

I saw an elderly woman have a terminal stroke, a couple of people down from me in church when I was in grade school.  I felt bad that she succumbed but remember viewing it as a learning experience.

 

You can't beat church for a place to die.  That gives you lots of bonus points at the pearly gates.  Sounds like you have seen more than one would like. 

[Zonny]

My mom had neighbors many moons ago that had been married 70+ years. Bill's MO was to fall asleep in his recliner in front of the TV and Catherine was NOT to wake him to go to bed. He would wake eventually and get to the bedroom on his own accord. One night, he didn't wake up and she found him the next morning, having died in his chair.

HUGE Irish/Catholic family; 4 generations attending the funeral/mass. At the very end of the service, Catherine simply laid her head on her daughter's shoulder and died. It was amazing.

Edited April 30, 2018 by Zonny

[janice6]

59 minutes ago, RenoF250 said:

 

You can't beat church for a place to die.  That gives you lots of bonus points at the pearly gates.  Sounds like you have seen more than one would like. 

I don't know about that. just that I have seen life end.  Other than that, it isn't any thing special.  I don't agonize over something I had no part in. 

I have empathy, I just don't suffer from it.

[Huaco Kid]

When I was very little, I was on the top floor of a double-decker bus.  It was stuck in city traffic because of an accident.

As we crawled passed,  I saw a pedestrian laying in the road.  You could clearly see the tire track going across his head.  No emergency officials had arrived yet.

Even though his leg was moving back and forth,  I could tell, even as a little kid, by the shape of his head, that he was already dead.  I will never forget the face.

All I really remember thinking about was how much did it hurt.

[ASH]

ive seen about 20  , when i was teenager i would spend the weekends with bud of mine ,  his mom was chief of our small fire dept so she go call first  ,  so we normally got there first .

worst  was dude on motorcyle clipped a guide wire  with his neck ,  you know the rest . 

one that really bothered me  we got call to wreck  camaro hit drain pipe in ditch  and flipped up into some pine trees and hung off the ground  cae was sideways lodged in girl was hanging half out of drivers door with only seat belt holding her in by the leg .  well she had one leg and arm  burning on exhaust pipe so i move her off exhaust  and check for pulse as i turned her head  she was the girl friend of a guy i knew  , 

i will never forget the smell of flesh burning or calling my friend .   we never knew why she was driving so fast alone .  later on the investigation said she was going atleast 130 , to give insight  that road goes down hill and is uneven on on side so if you are doing 50 it will push you in other lane  ,  speed limit sign was 25 mph  on that stretch . never hit the brakes  .no frugs or alcohol involved and the word was not suicidal . her face still bothers me 

[willie-pete]

I had just taken over the Fuels Operation at Sheppard AFB two weeks earlier. One Saturday morning about 2:30AM, my Sgt. called and woke me up.  A car with two male SP's and a female friend had missed a curve on base and crashed into one of our refueling vehicles at the fifth wheel after knocking down the chain link fence securing the parking area. It knocked the 5000 gallon refueling unit up off the tractor and it came down on the passenger compartment of the car.  When I got there, there was JP-4 leaking out of the trailer and three obviously dead people crushed in the front seat of the car.

 

A P-2 crash truck was standing by.  We had them put foam down and I and a couple other guys went sloshing through jet fuel to secure the leak and transfer the fuel so the trailer could be lifted off the car. I will never forget what I first thought was some big hairy animal that was on the front dash. Turned out it was the female's wig that had come off from the force of the crash.  It was estimated they hit the truck at about 90 mph ( on base speed limit on that stretch of road was 35 mph).   People had seen them drinking at the NCO club earlier in the evening.

 

Dreamed about that one for a few nights.

[Walt Longmire]

I've seen a few.