JCC I saw my first dead guy today...

If you saw a body under a cover, did you really see a body?

Also, hey, isn't this thread like three Doors songs?

 

No, I wanted a reaction shot.

 

In Nederland CO, they have a 'Frozen Dead Guy Days' celebration, once a year. Some people have their dead grandpa frozen in a tough shed on their property. It's basically mountain man, do it yourself, cryogenics. Every year, there is a festival to celebrate grandpa... complete with coffin races, pancake breakfast, polar bear club dip in the lake, live music, etc.

http://frozendeadguydays.org/

 

i saw a ton of dead guys when i was living in la. you're a sheltered little baby tunes.

 

I see dead people relatively frequently... sometimes I'm the one making them dead (as in taking them off the ventilator, not anything illegal), sometimes I'm helping to bring them back to life. Such is the life of working in a hospital.

If he was already dead... and very dead, as in pronounceable at the scene, he really didn't need EMT's who's work would be better served helping people who can be saved.
It's quite possible it was part of a crime scene and they were finishing that up, or they were waiting on the coroner/medical examiner.

 

I have a neighbor who is an EMT. He describes to us at least once a week a donorcycle crash. Some are lucky and lose a leg or an arm. The really unlucky ones cross the yellow line into a truck and they get to pick up the pieces of the body. Recently one poor guy crossed the line on his bike, got hit by a semi and killed instantly. His body parts went flying all over the road, then his friend ran over the leg and crashed. Him and his girlfriend on back got hurt by the body and flipped out completely.

 

"I saw Schrodinger's cat."

 

Mav wins.

 

I have lived on military bases for 70% of my life. So, you could say I live in a bubble.

-1.17 million dollar were spent effective April 1, 2014 to reduce emergency response times to 8 minutes or under, in Colorado Springs.
Source: http://gazette.com/new-ambulance-se...-springs-coffers-council-told/article/1516199


-Map showing all healthcare centers in the area of the crash (Red dots), which includes a major hospital. The black dot is where the crash took place.


-I could not find any other things that happened yesterday, but I personally I saw one other accident on the way home in which a semi jack-knifed and fell off the highway. As far as I could see there were no emergency services at that incident other than a police cruiser.

-I personally saw about six or seven police and their cruisers blockading the scene.

-Also this guy was laying there for at least and hour by the time I saw it.

-Also if that was my loved one I would be rather mad at the fact no one picked up the body and transported it elsewhere.

Mr. Ender is there anything else you wish to see?

It was a motorcycle accident.

I saw a part of the legs.

 

You didn't respond to mav, and she makes the most sense. If the person was already dead, it's likely they were waiting for a medical examiner or coroner. EMTs are there to save lives. There's not much they can do with a dead body.

 

Depends who you are.

 

Depends on how it happens. For example if a call comes in that says a motorcycle accident and not much more the EMTs show up. If they say the victim has split into a few parts and is clearly dead and its relayed to EMS then they don't bother. Sometimes they are called to nursing homes and a patient has stopped breathing with a DNR. At that point they take them to the hospital to have them called by a doctor. But in smaller towns the EMTs do show up to take away a body because there is not real coroner's office. Instead they are taken to a local hospital.

I was told to ask the local EMS if you want to know how good a nursing home is. They can tell when a patient is neglected by the staff and dies.

 

Like, are you bothered by the fact it's a dead body, or the fact that first responders seemed to take their sweet time in getting there? Because I have genuine suggestions as to how you can cope with the fact it's a body, but the other is just beyond me.

 

Dealing with a body is easy. Dealing with a Motorcyclist hit by a car who thinks he is about to die and wants you to call his family to say he loves them is totally totally horrible. Fortunately the guy made it out alive with a broken back. God that day truly sucked. The kid who hit him was on his way to the police academy to take his state police exam.

 

Sorry, she posted while I was typing. I understand that the EMT are there to save lives, but in a hour or so time-span someone should have picked the guy off the road.

It mostly the first responders not show up to take the body away. I know that death is a natural part of life, so the body didn't bother me much, but I find it sad that the man passed before his time.

 

Pffft, I was a witness to a murder in '08.

 

Lazy, so you did the research and Mav's post aside, you're still willing to stick by your critique of emergency workers?!

 

I'm not 100% sure (because it's not as though I like committing these things to memory for later internet bragging rights), but I don't think I've ever randomly happened upon a dead body. At most I may have driven past a fatal accident like our Lazy friend. I also caught a glimpse of my grandmother's open casket (wtf is wrong with people who do that) when I was little, but that shouldn't count. Essellgee and PRENN rag on Tunick and LST for being "sheltered"-- as though it's a common thing in the developed world to see a stranger's body on the street. It's not. Not even in the U.S. where everything is riddled with bulletholes.

 

That's death for an EMT. They clean up your screw ups. This time of year they get really busy in the summer for all sorts of summertime stupidity.

 

I like that there's an implication in this thread that, "Well, saw a dead guy - it was bound to happen, I guess it's better sooner than later!"

 

i saw that durst fred guy today. he was working in the deli at target.