Not 100% certain if i've seen a dead body before
but i've watched someone die;

Coventry Airshow, 2002 I believe it was. Replica wooden high winged aircraft takes off, I watch it climb upwards, then at about 500 metres or so the left wing snaps off. The wing flutters down, as does the rest of the aircraft including the right down, spiralling down like one of those 'helicopter' leaves. Unfortunately the aircraft landed on top of, and fell into, an industrial building, and the pilot later died of his injuries.

I also watched a 1950s race car lose control, hit the wall of the track at approximately 90 degrees, the car leaps into the air spinning sideways as it does so, and the driver is thrown out of it, lands in the middle of the track lifeless. Luckily, a track marshall got him to his feet and he escaped with very minor injuries

Both left me shocked but I wouldn't call it traumatic - since the airshow crash i've flown several historic aircraft and i'm going into an aviation career, despite several escapes from death due to aviation, but that's another story...

I've seen two what could be bodies before - once in London as a child with my family, someone lying on the pavement with a police officer calling for an ambulance, and a few years back an old man being put into an ambulance who looked fairly deceased
( Bobson I who milks the milkmen?, Tue 4 Mar 2008, 1:01, Reply)