[Inhuman]

Go!

[LifeDistortion]

I've never even been to a funeral, and I'm almost 30 years old.

[HECKLER SPRAY]

Do you mean a dead body or somebody who dies away ?

[HECKLER SPRAY]

For my part, I saw many deads at work...
First time you smell death, this odour stay in your nose and in your memory forever... Not pleasant.

[pbradley]

I've never seen anyone at the moment of passing away but I did visit my aunt at the hospital just a couple of days before she died from cancer.

[RdTv]

No, I haven't, but I bet theres nothing that makes you feel more alive.

[Savage Clone]

Twice.
Once was my wife's grandmother in a hospital room (very uncomfortable; I didn't know a lot of the family present and it was obviously a very emotional scene), and the second time was when I was behind a truck that hit a pedestrian. The truck had just started up from a full stop and was turning and hit a woman crossing the street, going less than 5 MPH. I didn't see the actual point of contact because I was immediately behind the truck; I just saw other people reacting to something. When I drove around the truck, I saw the woman lying in the street. A tiny trickle of blood came out of her nose, and suddenly became a river of blood running onto the street. I found out later that she had died.

[against_the_grain]

Yes I have.

I was holding my mother's hand when she passed.

20 years ago and it was like yesterday.

[schizophrenicroom]

i saw my nan becoming very ill very quickly the night before she died and seeing her in the hospital but that was it. mom wanted me in the hospital room there with her in the morning but i didn't go in.

[Everyneurotic]

yes.

[Norma J]

Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

I've never even been to a funeral, and I'm almost 30 years old.

You're either very lucky or very lonely.

[something]

i have

[LifeDistortion]

Well I have one living grandfather who I've never met who lives in South America, both my grandmothers have died, one like ten years ago who I knew for a number of years growing up, but she died in South America so I didn't go to her funeral, both my parents from my mom's side are dead, and I never went to thier funerals either. My grandfather from my mother's side died at like 50 years old, I don't even think I was born yet, and my grandmother from my mother's side died when I was less then five years old, and I never went to her funeral either. It is kind of sad in the extent that I never knew my grandparents very well.

[king_buzzo]

No! I've been to numerous funerals and death bed.

[screamingskull]

i have had a good friend die, but i didn't see it, and i have seen a dead body in a coffin.

[Dead-Air]

Never seen anyone die, though I've seen some pretty violent fights that might have led to it. I didn't stick around to see how it turned out.

Just a couple days ago, I walked from work to the bank past a funeral home, and happened by just as a body was being loaded in. Something about seeing the gurney with a body bag on it in broad daylight really tweaked me.

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by Norma J

You're either very lucky or very lonely.

I was in my mid 30s when my first grandparent died, and that was the first funeral I went to, so far the only. Of course you can count on more all of the time.

[Tokolosh]

Yes. In the late 80's I did my 2 year military service, and took part in a dirty war in Africa.

[king_buzzo]

^Really? Did you kill people?

[Tokolosh]

No.