My dad's friends were decapitated when they hit an 18-wheeler in front of them. The low lying back end crashed through the front windshield and cleanly beheaded both of them. That's why the modern 18-wheelers have the little hanging down thing, so if it crashes into you you have some hope of survival.
Hey. Its a well known fact that I'm a cunt, a dick on the Team Fortress subforums.
But I really do hope you and your niece are okay. Really man, you seriously need to get some help. Thats very traumatic, at any age. Just... find someone to talk to. Its gonna be alright
I've also seen a death. I was around 7 or 6 (or who fucking knows, it was vague as to time but I remember the scene dearly) and was driving with my Aunt after she took me from her bible study thing she always wanted me to go to. We were driving down this hill that became a fork and I looked and to the left of me I see this red car hit a biker at 40 miles per hour (him going in the direction of the car and the car running against him.) His bike was thrown into the window and he was thrown a good amount and there was blood everywhere. My aunt made me sit in the car while she tried to help him (she was a nurse.) I got out of the car because I was a curious kid and I saw what happened so I wonder what it could have meant and it was absolutely fucking horrifying. I was there for an hour sitting in the car waiting for my Aunt who was still trying to keep him alive but he was dead and I knew it. Paramedics arrived and they took him into the ambulance trying to revive him. My mom showed me the newspaper after I told her what happen (this was the day after) and she told me he had passed when paramedics arrived.
There's nothing like it. It made me not grief death as much but it was traumatizing and made me feel even worse when I had my grandpa and grandma die.
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Never went to her bible school or anything after that. The problem with her is she acts like nothing happened when something bad happens with everything. Wish I could find the article to it. Might go check the street and see accidents that have happened there and narrow it down.
[editline]25th August 2012[/editline]
I have this really strong memory that part of his bike impaled him because I couldn't find part of the frame and there was something sticking out of him.
The way the accident happened didn't help with my emotions because my uncle died by being hit on a motorcycle (not a bike, but it's related) by an old man going the other way.
I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.
you sound like a good uncle :3
now get me ice cream, bitch
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
Seeing something horrible happen is still traumatic, it's not something that can easily be erased from your mind, even if you do not know the victim(s) personally.
I still remember when I was 7 or 8 and walking home from school, as I was walking from the sidewalk to my front door, I narrowly avoided getting hit by a car that had lost control, hit the curb and the mailbox I had just gotten the mail from mere seconds before, and flipped over, skidding across a few yards before finally stopping. The driver was killed and the passenger was injured but survived. I just kinda curled up into the fetal position after what had happened finally sunk into my head -- the rest of the memory is lost in a blur of sirens from the emergency vehicles that arrived shortly afterward. I didn't see the accident as it happened, but I still cannot purge from memory the sounds that I heard that were within an arm's throw.
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna go ahead and guess the only time you've seen anyone die is in video games.
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
You have no clue.
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
Uh, so you don't find it weird to be shocked/traumatized after witnessing a rolling car flattening a person?
Why should it matter if you know the person or not? It's a freaking human being being killed. Does this even need an explanation...
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
No one can expect you to understand, because you've never witnessed death yourself.
Come back when you have and tell us how fun it was.
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
I'm starting to think you're basically insensitive about pretty much anything.
I feel for you, OP.
When I was about 10, we were driving on the highway and were stopped near the front of a line. There were like 6 cop cars, 2 ambulances and a fire truck or 2. When we got a chance to get by and continue driving, I saw a Harley Davidson, a trail of blood about 30 feet long and a biker looking guy with his head completely obliterated. It was a very eerie sight, knowing that that person was once alive and just riding his bike. I've been afraid of motorcycles since...
Those posts make me greatfull that I never witnesses such a thing. At least, not that I remember.
Well I'm glad you and your niece are okay :)
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick.[/QUOTE]
well then you shouldn't be posting
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[QUOTE=Persecution;37403741]I was going out into town to drop off my niece at preschool, some guy.. I don't know, he like hit the curb, flipped, rolled, and just.. fucking pancaked the woman. I will not ever, ever, [b]ever[/b] be able to erase the image from my mind.[/QUOTE]
i saw something similar when i was young, a motorcyclist got hit by a car and his brains spattered all over the cement.
now every time i think i'm about to crash on a motorcycle or a car that image pops into my head.
I've seen people die before, at least five times, there was a vehicle vs. pedestrian this time I went to London, a fatal crash outside my school in Edinburgh, a vehicle vs. pedestrian in my town in the US, and I watched one of my buddies die while I was on tour in Afghanistan. I have high functioning Asperger's (i.e. I can think like a normal person), so the only one that traumatized me was the last one.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37404056]I've seen a lot of pictures and videos of people dying on television and the internet, some of them quite gory.
But I think it would still be a shocking and hard-to-cope-with moment if I saw any of that in person, especially unexpected like that.[/QUOTE]
It is kinda in a way the same as the pictures see. It's just peoples reactions that are disheartening
Maybe I'm disingenuous, but I've had a lot of people die on me. My first day as an EMT, two people died.
It sucks but I don't find it traumatic or anything but something I saw that sucks.
I know this has been said already, but PLEASE talk to a therapist or someone about it. I made the mistake of trying to "tough it out" when some bad shit happened to me by keeping to myself and ignoring therapists. I developed PTSD from it, and to tell you the truth, shit sucks yo.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;37405825]My dad's friends were decapitated when they hit an 18-wheeler in front of them. The low lying back end crashed through the front windshield and cleanly beheaded both of them. That's why the modern 18-wheelers have the little hanging down thing, so if it crashes into you you have some hope of survival.[/QUOTE]
Do you live in Canada?
Americans aren't so lucky with 18-Wheelers yet, I hope they fucking change that
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-YMt-XAcsQ[/MEDIA]
Oh god man, what I've seen is NOTHING compared to this. I suggest you really just get some help even if it goes away after a time, shit like this haunts man.
[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;37406925]It is kinda in a way the same as the pictures see. It's just peoples reactions that are disheartening
Maybe I'm disingenuous, but I've had a lot of people die on me. My first day as an EMT, two people died.
It sucks but I don't find it traumatic or anything but something I saw that sucks.[/QUOTE]
It's different if it's your regular experience. Here's an example:
How many people would cringe if they had to give someone else an injection? Probably most everyone right? That's because normally you'd envision YOURSELF getting an injection, which makes it hard for you to do the same to someone else(empathy in other words).
But in my situation there was a time I needed to give a family member insulin shots on a regular basis. So I couldn't see it as if it was happening to me, I had to mentally get to a place where the pain I was causing meant nothing to me. I had to kill my empathy.
There are many ways to kill empathy, your work could be one way. How effective could an EMT be if he was thinking "OMG, this could be me!" all day at work?
[QUOTE=znk666;37406196]I don't want to sound like a dick but...Why is witnessing someone's death such a traumatic experience for you?
I would understand if you actually knew the person,but falling into a depression because you witnessed the death of a stranger,that's an over-exaggeration.[/QUOTE]
Have you ever known a friend/family that died, or seen anyone die? Doesn't matter if it's a stranger, its still a horrible feeling. Quit talking out your ass because you clearly don't know what it feels like, it's one of the worse feelings you can have.
Worst thing that's happened to me is coming home to find my dog dead in a remote corner of the house.
I saw someone die from jumping off a multi-story car park. Their feet hit the floor dead on and their spine kind of came up through the back of their neck. It wasn't nice.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;37404581]Dairy Queen or Baskin Robbins? I'm a BR guy myself.[/QUOTE]
Actually, Baskin Robbins. She wanted "Stawberry" :c
When I was 10ish, I saw someone splattered at the bottom of Hover Damn.
That happened like 30-45 minutes from where I live and I hear about it on facepunch before WAFF. I lurk on this forum wayyy too much.
Seeing death is a horrible thing. When I was in 1st grade and my mom was leaving from work we passed by a horrible car accident where one passenger's foot was stuck in the window, and the driver flew through the win shield and hit the pavement. It was pretty obvious he died.
My friend was in Nevada, years ago, with her husband, on holiday. There had been an accident moments before they arrived at the scene. The car was on fire, and there was a woman trapped in the car, and she couldn't get out. No one there could get close enough to the car, so she was basically cooking in front of everyone. My friend, to this day, can hear her screams as she burned.
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another one of my friends was waiting for a train to cross the road, and watched as a guy tried to jump onto the train and he slipped and was cut right in half. My friend says that still bothers him. At the time, he went numb,
his brain couldn't comprehend what had just happened. My friend says that still bothers him. The guy was just there living, and seconds later, it was over, just like that.
Another one of my friends, her boyfriend couldn't stand the fact that she was going to break up with him, so he trapped both of them in their bedroom, and he blew his brains out, right in front of her. She is still messed up, big time.
Years ago, two of my friends decided to commit suicide within a week of each other. It really sucked finding them, cutting them down, trying to revive them, knowing it was too damn late. That week totally sucked.
Two of the nicest guys, just decide this is it.
Now would be a good time for you and your sibling (lol originally I put aunt/uncle, fml) to teach your niece about life and death.
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