back when my friend lived in america
she saw her friend get run over. they'd been hanging around by the roadside. though it was a suburb, there had been a problem with lorries cutting through the quieter streets.

only he didn't just get hit by the lorry. he fell into the road and one of the wheels went over his head. there was no head anymore.

my friend told us she didn't react to this. she managed to tell us very calmly about all the shards of skull and pieces of brain. we sat there, absolutely horrified.

it gets worse.

she and her friends were from muslim families. at the funeral, the father decided to go ahead with an open casket ceremony. though my friend was told she didn't have to go, she did. apparently, when she actually saw the body with all the pieces of head in a little bag inside the coffin, she collapsed.

the worst thing about this was that she'd never mentioned it before. it was only because it was a show and tell type exercise in college that it ever got brought up.
(ladyintheradiator, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 14:26, Reply)