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"Silence is Golden, but Duct Tape is Silver"
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"Silence is Golden, but Duct Tape is Silver"
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» Have you ever seen a dead body?
Too many....
Watched autopsies with great interest (the smell is nasty, but well worth suffering through)
Helped the local funeral guys --a.k.a. body snatchers-- bag up many a former (I work in a hospital)
Met ambulances in the bay to help grim-looking Paramedics carry out their inactive "patients"
Been to accidents where my "Sir, are you okay?" question never gets answered ("Why yes, he did look mighty gray now that I think about it...")
And, topping it all, my b/f and I came across a suicide-in-progress involving semi-tractor versus 20ish year old girl (guess who won?). We got to speak to her before the final breath... lying to her about how she would be just fine and should just rest until help arrives. Then I directed traffic and gawkers around the scene until an ambulance arrived.
My point? It gets routine after a while. I see them as just still, lifeless bodies. I'm not emotional about it as it's just an ending. Hope that you never get to that point.
(Sat 1st Mar 2008, 0:12, More)
Too many....
Watched autopsies with great interest (the smell is nasty, but well worth suffering through)
Helped the local funeral guys --a.k.a. body snatchers-- bag up many a former (I work in a hospital)
Met ambulances in the bay to help grim-looking Paramedics carry out their inactive "patients"
Been to accidents where my "Sir, are you okay?" question never gets answered ("Why yes, he did look mighty gray now that I think about it...")
And, topping it all, my b/f and I came across a suicide-in-progress involving semi-tractor versus 20ish year old girl (guess who won?). We got to speak to her before the final breath... lying to her about how she would be just fine and should just rest until help arrives. Then I directed traffic and gawkers around the scene until an ambulance arrived.
My point? It gets routine after a while. I see them as just still, lifeless bodies. I'm not emotional about it as it's just an ending. Hope that you never get to that point.
(Sat 1st Mar 2008, 0:12, More)
» Scary Neighbours
Bodysnatcher
We have a neighbor, Dave, several houses down that I refer to as The Bodysnatcher (nothing interesting about it -- he actually just helps the local Medical Examiner on weekends with "body pick-ups"). Dave sits in his backyard, always with a beer can in hand, and stares at any neighbors in view. If you dare to make eye contact, he stares back without flinching. Continue to stare and he'll walk up for mindless chatter about nonsense. Last week he told me the neighborhood's going bad. When I stupidly asked why, he replied "It's getting a little dark a few blocks over." One day I was trying to remove some old fenceposts, so he came over (beer always in hand) and watched me dig .... for 20 minutes. Left when I told him there was an extra shovel for him. Strangely, we never see him drink out of the beer can .... he just holds it.
Not as bad as the elderly deaf couple next door. They communicate by yelling as loud as they can .... a lot of "WHA ??? HUH? SAY AGAIN? At least we can have loud parties that they'll never hear.
(Sun 28th Aug 2005, 7:33, More)
Bodysnatcher
We have a neighbor, Dave, several houses down that I refer to as The Bodysnatcher (nothing interesting about it -- he actually just helps the local Medical Examiner on weekends with "body pick-ups"). Dave sits in his backyard, always with a beer can in hand, and stares at any neighbors in view. If you dare to make eye contact, he stares back without flinching. Continue to stare and he'll walk up for mindless chatter about nonsense. Last week he told me the neighborhood's going bad. When I stupidly asked why, he replied "It's getting a little dark a few blocks over." One day I was trying to remove some old fenceposts, so he came over (beer always in hand) and watched me dig .... for 20 minutes. Left when I told him there was an extra shovel for him. Strangely, we never see him drink out of the beer can .... he just holds it.
Not as bad as the elderly deaf couple next door. They communicate by yelling as loud as they can .... a lot of "WHA ??? HUH? SAY AGAIN? At least we can have loud parties that they'll never hear.
(Sun 28th Aug 2005, 7:33, More)