Who's seen a dead body?

Tales of the dead.

This was July 19th, 2001. I know this because this was the dude:

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Chernoff,+Joel

Lived in a shitpit in hollywood, real slum. It was mainly actor types and hispanic families, and bums like me. Anyways, one day I come home, and see my apartment manager standing at the door of the next apartment, with a strange look on his face, repeatedly yelling the name "Joel".

It goes like this.

"What's wrong, dude?"

"..."

"Dude...Christian..what's wrong?"

"Matt, come here and look at this." I walk over. "Okay, look inside." I do.

"Okay...?"

"Is that guy dead?" I peer in once more, just quick enough to see a dude laying with his feet on the floor, his back on the bed, and his arms at his side.

"Umm...I dunno. Might be, can't tell from here."

Of course, never having seen a dead body, and since he was too pussy to go in alone, we walk in and look at him.

He's completely pale, not breathing, ass naked (ewww) and clearly dead. I lean over and look in his eyes...nothing.

"Yeah, dude, he's dead."

The coroner came later, and Christian told me this guy was once a big AD, and made at least a million a year. Obvious question, how did he end up dead and near penniless in that shitpit.

"He spent 1.1 million a year."

Bummer. Turns out he was dead for a good 3 days, and it was only the air conditioner that prevented the stentch of death from going all over the complex.

Epilogue to the story, every time I see One Flew Over, I see a 350 pound dead, white, bloated dead guy.

Who else has seen the corpses?

Ummm... like 8. I think most people have been to at least one funeral, right?

None where naked though... thankfully.

Well, I mean like freshly dead, not counting funerals and wakes and all.

and I've never been to a funeral.

wow, he worked on Iron Eagle IV and smoked crack in the slums of hollywood, awesome!

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Originally posted by mattvanstone
Well, I mean like freshly dead, not counting funerals and wakes and all.

and I've never been to a funeral.

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Freshly dead? I plead the 5th... *runs*

Freshly dead? How about...still warm. I worked at a hospital for 2 and a half years.

That guy had the same first name as me.

Any way, I've never seen a fresh corpse, but I have been to a wake.

I saw a guy with his brains blown out laying near a bridge over Brays Bayou in Houston. I called the cops, they questioned me and paramedics hauled him off. It never even made the news :/

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i saw a hoboe once laying on the side of the street, he could of been dead.

There was a corpse floating in the river of my town when I was a youngster. It was right next door to my Uncles work where he fixed Arcade cabinets. I think I was 8 years old or so, and myt parents saw me on the news station looking at the body in the river. They were just a tad bity pissed at my uncle for letting me see that. OH well, just another thing to add to the experiences in my life.

I caught a glimpse of one. I can't remember the circumstances because I was just a kid, all I remember is seeing a dead guy laying a few meters in front of me (was near a boat landing in the woods). This was a while after it happened, because people and police were everywhere. My dad was a cop, so maybe I was with him for some reason.

Dude! Action Hank!

Explain this Action Hank comment to me...now...

Hes one rug-ged motha-- Shut yo mouf!

Understood. Thank you.

"Freshly dead? How about...still warm. I worked at a hospital for 2 and a half years."

I wish I was an orderly. And yes, I saw one on the way to Raging Waters once.

Never been to a funeral, never seen a dead body in RL.

One of my friends worked in a coroners office during his senior year at high school as an apprentice, and I got to hear plenty about dead people then. Some real nasty stuff, most of which I've blocked out. Great guy, but he can be really fucking twisted at times.

Oh I forgot funerals. That sends my tally right up. But we never did get to go to the morgue for my anatomy class, which I've always regretted.

Ive seen this dead guy in a smashed up civic once....Also about 2 years ago suring one of my summer vacations i saw this guy lying on the side walk , dead .No one seemed to really care about him and just walked on.

About a year or two ago, I was coming from the comic book store and about to walk past the local ice cream parlor, when a car comes speeding out of nowhere two men jump out, and they shoot a man in the ICP's parking lot. Later turns out that it was gang related. The ICp was completely packed when this happened, and they still did it. I was a bit numb to it though. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Never been to a funeral nor seen a dead body.

My old english teacher watched her husband get brutally murdered, but I've never seen anything like that.

I watched my Grandmother die, and I watched a man get beat to death.

A medical school student who was attracted to me offered to take me down to the morgue, but I passed. I find death too depressing to want to look at a dead person, especially one who is cut open.

Speaking of Hollywood deaths, you all know http://www.findadeath.com, right? It is full of stories about the deaths of rock stars, movie actors, and television personalities you grew up with.

I saw a guy from a motorcycle accident get zipped into a bag once.

A complicated story. Here goes:

About 7 years ago, my wife and I went to Washington State for a short trip with my parents and their friends. Went fishing on the Bogashiele River in the Olympia National Forest on the last day for salmon fishing.

The night before fishing, we met one of our guides, and he just happened to have his friend, Larry, with him. Half of Larry's body was paralyzed from a prior accident, and I don't think the guy was playing with a full deck to begin with. Anyway, the story continues.

We go fishing the next day. The guide from the night before is in my boat. Hours into the trip, we come across an overturned ATV in the river. The guide obviously recognized who it belonged to, but doesn't say much about it. He seemed a bit concerned.

My wife is in the boat in front of us, and is the first to hear the screaming. It's coming from a young guy with one leg, Roy. It turns out that Roy lost his leg when, a few years earlier, he and a friend were shooting at an ammo dump. Big explosion, truck blown up, Roy's friend killed, and Roy's leg blown off from the hip down. Roy sued over the incident (as incredible as that may be) and with the proceeds he managed to buy the shiny ATV that was now lying in river.

Roy is freaked, but while hopping about, he manages to tell the story of how he and friend were "island hopping" through the shallow parts of the river in order to do some fishing, but Roy had just crashed his ATV by driving off of a steep edge of the river bank with his friend on the back of it. His friend was missing. My wife and mom found the friend in short order. Guess who?

Yep, it's Larry, the half-paralyzed guy from the night before. He's face down in the river by one of the many little "islands", and he is freshly drowned and looking like a beached whale. My wife and another guide are giving this guy CPR, and suffice it to say that it's NOT a pretty sight. My boat shows up at the scene. We try to help for the next twenty minutes. His body was heli-ported off the site, and Larry stayed dead as a door nail.

So. Picture the scene: there's a half paralyzed guy (who we JUST HAPPENED to meet the night before) riding around on the back of an ATV, being driven by a one-legged guy who managed to lose his leg, kill his friend, AND purchase the ATV through sheer stupidity, and who now had the incredible lack of sense to go and kill ANOTHER friend (Larry) on the ATV he acquired by killing his PREVIOUS friend. The backdrop to all of this is that ANYONE other than Larry would have easily survived the whole incident which took place in about 2-3 feet of water ... of course, Larry was half-paralyzed and couldn't swim.

So, yes. I've seen a dead body.

Well, I seen a few in my life.

One of them was a dead body in the river, that got caught by one kid fishing there. Cops brought the body out of the water, and it lay there on the ground, all white and bloated. It also had a belt on the neck from when he was strangled and then dumped into the river.

Man, that's fucked up, prince. :(

I never actually seen one myself but I was like 50 feet from one and didn't even know it till later on, something smelled real bad and later on they found a body near a small brook right near the house I was at, kind of creapy.

Smelled not seen and it is awful.

The sickest smell ever and at first I thought it was someones bad cooking.

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Man, that's fucked up, prince. :(

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Yep. Definitely my #1 weird tale -- it was like a combination of Twin Peaks and Deliverance. Very sad, though.

I've seen a few. The most recent dead guy was some wacko who jumped from the 7th floor of the building where I work and fell all the way down the atrium and went *splat* in the lobby, right on top of one of the fake bamboo trees there. I saw him minutes after it happened. The cops came, but the messed up thing was that they couldn't move the body until the medical examininer arrived to pronounce him dead, which took several hours. So, until then, the cops covered him with a sheet and taped off the area. Wacky.

And, of course, I've been to a few funerals. But the whole concept of wakes and wheeling out a dead body for everyone to stare at seems kinda sick and morbid to me. I'd rather my last memory of the person to be them alive, not sitting dead in some box.

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Turns out he was dead for a good 3 days, and it was only the air conditioner that prevented the stentch of death from going all over the complex.

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Why do dead people stink so fast? I leave food out for longer than that, and it's still tolerable.

Only 2. My Grandma and my GF's Grandpa. I'm no fun.

Did you kill them both at the same time?

Prince Planet: Great Story.

Nick: Yes.

Prince Planet: Great Story.

me and a friend found a dead body once when i was about 6 years old.

i dont remember much. we thought he was just a homeless guy who was asleep, so we threw a few rocks at him to try to wake him up. after awhile he didnt, and my friend (he was older) thought that he might be dead. i told my dad and he called the police.

when the cops came i pointed to where the body was. and thats about it. i never found out what happened to him.

so... yeah.

I've seen a number of dead and dying relatives in hospitals and funerals. But never freshly dead.

I'm not quite certain how anybody can go any length of time in life without going to a funeral or two as I've read in this thread.

I have a cop buddy who sees dead people all the time. Mostly unattended natural deaths of the elderly in their homes (apparently lots of people die alone and lonely). Plus a number a suicides, only a few actual murders, and some accidental deaths (mostly vehicular). And I hear the gory details of each one.