Dead Body
This is very difficult; not because it's traumatising or upsetting in any way. It´s just difficult to start without it sounding cheap.
I saw someone killed in a car crash; I´d be about 12 at the time, an impressional age one might think. The person concerned was something of a local celebrity and drove his mini into an oncoming car without wearing a seat belt. It happened on a clear, warm day literally in front of me as I walked with a fried to the shops.
I knew he was dead because he was thrown thrown the windshield and came to rest face up on the bonnet with his arms stretched out in a perfect crucifix. That´s the part that sticks; it could have been a Crucifiction tableau on mashed car.
The real proof was kept from me until much later. He was face up but the rest of his body was face down: the force had twisted his head back to front.
I felt shock, surprise and a surity the car would blow up so strong was the smell of petrol. Neither car did.
The lady driving the other car was fine but I don't remember a sngle thing about how she was.
Did it traumatise me? No.... it was my mother who was shaken up having to tell me he was dead after the police came to take a statement. I was only 12 but I knew he was dead so a bit of a waste of emotion.
The police were kind and clearly shaken up too, it can´t have been much fun to look at close.
It´s an odd thing to look back on. Something like that should have affected me... but it didn´t. The only thing I carry is a surity that we all die and it can be very quick.
Sleep well.
(DustyD, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 20:57, Reply)