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Subject: Have you ever seen someone die?
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We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.

In person, once.
Through the magic of the internet, way too many times.

  • 12.28.2012 4:28 AM PDT

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Yes. I've seen a lot of death.

I've always been a very empathetic person, so it bothers me a lot.

I've seen loved ones, and friends die. Can't really describe the feeling, it just... sucks. It's scary honestly, to realize how frail life really is and to know it could end any moment.

  • 12.28.2012 4:29 AM PDT

Not in my face, no. I've seen gif images of people dying about a dozen times on /r/watchpeopledie, on reddit. If you are ever pissed off it is a great way to relief your anger. They have everything from drug cartels killing snitches to car accidents to beheadings in middle eastern countries.

  • 12.28.2012 4:33 AM PDT


Posted by: Chris Gotham
Yes. I've seen a lot of death.

I've always been a very empathetic person, so it bothers me a lot.

I've seen loved ones, and friends die. Can't really describe the feeling, it just... sucks. It's scary honestly, to realize how frail life really is and to know it could end any moment.


It is kind of scary, but at the same time liberating. Stop being a worry wart and planning about what you want to do and just do it. Be happy with what you have. Etc. Etc.

I got cancer already and through the miracles of modern science I am, as far as I know, "cured" of it, since it's been gone for a whooping two years now. If I had lived a century ago I would probably be dead. Really a strange thing to think about.

  • 12.28.2012 4:36 AM PDT
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We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.


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Posted by: Chris Gotham
Yes. I've seen a lot of death.

I've always been a very empathetic person, so it bothers me a lot.

I've seen loved ones, and friends die. Can't really describe the feeling, it just... sucks. It's scary honestly, to realize how frail life really is and to know it could end any moment.


It is kind of scary, but at the same time liberating. Stop being a worry wart and planning about what you want to do and just do it. Be happy with what you have. Etc. Etc.

I got cancer already and through the miracles of modern science I am, as far as I know, "cured" of it, since it's been gone for a whooping two years now. If I had lived a century ago I would probably be dead. Really a strange thing to think about.


Congrats man, on surviving and being positive about it.

[Edited on 12.28.2012 4:37 AM PST]

  • 12.28.2012 4:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Hermaeus Mora
Not in my face, no. I've seen gif images of people dying about a dozen times on /r/watchpeopledie, on reddit. If you are ever pissed off it is a great way to relief your anger. They have everything from drug cartels killing snitches to car accidents to beheadings in middle eastern countries.
jesus, man. I watch that stuff to get angry- to get motivated. you really need to get your first world problems under control.

[Edited on 12.28.2012 4:38 AM PST]

  • 12.28.2012 4:37 AM PDT


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Posted by: Hermaeus Mora
Not in my face, no. I've seen gif images of people dying about a dozen times on /r/watchpeopledie, on reddit. If you are ever pissed off it is a great way to relief your anger. They have everything from drug cartels killing snitches to car accidents to beheadings in middle eastern countries.
jesus, man. I watch that stuff to get angry- to get motivated. you really need to get your first world problems under control.
I would imagine your case to be unusual. Typically when humans get mad they want to break things, when you see a person die it is like that but put into hyperdrive.

  • 12.28.2012 4:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: Hermaeus Mora
Posted by: Elegiac
Posted by: Hermaeus Mora
Not in my face, no. I've seen gif images of people dying about a dozen times on /r/watchpeopledie, on reddit. If you are ever pissed off it is a great way to relief your anger. They have everything from drug cartels killing snitches to car accidents to beheadings in middle eastern countries.
jesus, man. I watch that stuff to get angry- to get motivated. you really need to get your first world problems under control.
I would imagine your case to be unusual. Typically when humans get mad they want to break things, when you see a person die it is like that but put into hyperdrive.
wait, I understand your awful sentence now. mirror neurons disagree.

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  • 12.28.2012 4:44 AM PDT

A competitive players main goal is to win.
A casuals main goal is to have fun regardless of whether that results in a win or loss.
It has nothing to do with individual skill or knowledge, it has to do with the reason you play.

Luckily, no.

  • 12.28.2012 4:45 AM PDT

I'm a profesional lurker. A post from me is a rarity...and yet I've still been banned 3 times :(

In real life? No.

On the internet? Sadly, lots of times...

  • 12.28.2012 4:45 AM PDT
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Watched my sister get taken off life support. No beuno...

  • 12.28.2012 5:03 AM PDT

I am a pharmaceutical scientist. I received my Masters degree in Pharmaceutics from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 2010, after working as a Pharmacist for 4 years. I currently work in King of Prussia, PA, and focus on the analytical chemistry of small molecule APIs. My clients include some of the most well known big pharma companies in the world.

I haven't seen anyone die face to face, although when I was doing clinical rotations in a hospital as a pharmacist intern, I walked by the viewing room for the OR and I saw a patient's chest wide open for open heart surgery. I also had to make a sedative cocktail for a man who was on his last legs, and was only told after the fact that I had made the last "medicine" that ever went in his body and essentially helped him die painlessly. A very odd experience being told that, but in the medical industry, I've learned to just block out emotion and any personal attachment.

  • 12.28.2012 5:35 AM PDT

Only on TV have I actually witnessed someone die.
It was a real life show based on someone who had cancer and the whole show was pretty much showing his life once he was diagnosed. At the end he was in a hospital bed and it was actually showing him as his breaths were becoming more laborious and spread out and then he took one final large gulp of air and that was it.

  • 12.28.2012 5:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: ossku
People die.
Boo boo.


What is this "boo boo" you speak of?

Your post is invalid.

  • 12.28.2012 5:51 AM PDT

Thankfully, no. But I once saw a man having a heart attack. That was almost as bad. The ambulance took him away, though I don't know if he lived or not.

  • 12.28.2012 5:57 AM PDT
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Not a person yet. But I've had the oh so joyous pleasure of having two cats pass away in my arms. I can imagine someone passing away near me would probably have the same effect, but varied on weather or not I knew them to any degree. So far I've been unlucky and skipped the dying part to actual dead people.

I remember when I was little my mom would bring me to a nursing home she worked at, and I would hang out with her and her friends as she went about her business. She worked down in the laundry, and one day I wandered off on my own and came across someone wheeling a stretcher along with someone who'd recently passed away.

I didn't stick around to look very long because as soon as he came through the doors I knew exactly what the guy with the stretcher was doing. The thought of someone dead underneath the blanket at that age terrified me, so I cheezed it.

  • 12.28.2012 6:01 AM PDT

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Never seen that situation in person, I think that would be a bit of a traumatic event. However, I've made the mistake of watching things on a gore site before, fatal accidents and the hostage videos. You never want to see that stuff, make me wish I could unsee things.

  • 12.28.2012 6:06 AM PDT

Yes, I AM just that awesome.

I can't shake the feeling that I was there in my grandmother's final hours.

  • 12.28.2012 6:12 AM PDT


Posted by: ossku
People die.
Boo boo.
People like you .....are whats wrong with humanity.

  • 12.28.2012 6:15 AM PDT

I saw a drunk driver (I think he was drunk) Go across 5 highway lanes, rip through a tree ,and then ANOTHER car slams into that car. Im pretty sure the first one died.

  • 12.28.2012 6:26 AM PDT

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss

I was driving along and this guy ran out in the road.

Watched him get shot by the person he was running from.

Didn't think that would happen...(in all seriousness he did get shot, not hit by a car).

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  • 12.28.2012 6:28 AM PDT
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My grandpa

  • 12.28.2012 6:28 AM PDT
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hope u ok man, and Ms Charlie is ok xD


OT: nope never

  • 12.28.2012 6:30 AM PDT

I agree that all presidents should serve 2 terms. 1 in office and 1 in prison

Yup, in an OR, they got a bleed that could not be stopped. They had me sprinting to the blood bank on the other end of the surgical suite with arm fulls of blood/plasma/platelets. I got back and they were doing chest compressions and they pulled me out of the room. I came back around 10 minutes later and all the curtains were drawn and nobody was saying anything. Very sad.

  • 12.28.2012 6:32 AM PDT

RIP Logan ~B.B.

I sat with my dad as he died. The moment of death was a bit of a relief. He had brain cancer, and had suffered a lot. His last week was unbearable to watch. The last day the worst, when his lungs began to fill with fluid and gurgled as he struggled for breath. By the time he died, I was hoping it would come just to spare him that torture. When he finally let go, it was a weird feeling. I was glad he was no longer in pain, but it was a weird feeling to see my dad's body, but it not being him anymore.

Kevin Smith explains it pretty well. (adult language)

  • 12.28.2012 6:51 AM PDT