how do you feel about dead people?

[fluffernutter]

i work in a hospital and my office window faces out to the door that the fumeral home people come in and take out the people who have recently passed away. so, suffice it to say that i see my share of dead people every week.

the person who worked before me quit because it really bothered her to see the gurneys going in and out in front of her. it doesn't really bother me, i always mentally say ciao as they wheel past, but it is kind of sad to think about the people they are leaving behind.

so how do you feel about it? would it bother you?

[chicagojoe]

1. If they don't bother me, I don't bother them.

[salvorhardin]

2. So, let me get this straight...

You see dead people!?


Sorry, couldn't resist.


I grew up living in a cemetery (literally -- my father was the caretaker and there was a house at the entrance to the cemetery). While I didn't see corpses very much (once or twice when I had to run an errand to the local mortician) it wasn't uncommon for us to have someone's cremated remains on top of our refrigerator overnight. A couple of years we had large rainfalls and flooding which sublimated the earth in some of the older graves leaving skeletal remains exposed.

I like to think I'm pretty detached when it comes to dead people. I still get emotionally distraught when someone close to me dies, it's just that I don't get upset over bodies.

[fluffernutter]

6. i considered making that my subject line ;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. If we shower we're alot of fun to be around

[sniffa]

4. i was gonna go for necrophiLia joke

but that wouLd be in poor taste.

[fluffernutter]

5. you made me spit my water.

:D

[Modem Butterfly]

7. Not a problem

Dead people, blood, guts, etc. just don't bother me very much. I'm not sure why. My grandmother was the youngest of 9, so when I was growing up I went to many funerals, so maybe that had something to do with it. I've always found funerals more interesting than weddings. I guess I'm just morbid that way.

[Left Is Write]

8. That wouldn't bother me either.

As a matter of fact, I find it soothing and peaceful to stroll through cemeteries - especially old ones with big beautiful stones and monuments - and read the names of the people buried there. Sometimes I wonder about their lives, what they did, who they loved, whether they were happy. I don't know. I guess I feel like it gives me some kind of connection to the past and future of the human race.

[u4ic]

12. Exactly the way I feel

the circle of life, and the feeling there is more to it than just my crappy little problems. Something much bigger than I am, and connection to it.

I took a few writing courses in university, and that's how I came up with story ideas, or characters...from my wanderings in the cemetery, and wondering about those lives.

[pdx_prog]

19. Me too.....

I love old cemeteries......I know one cemetery back in a very small burg in tn where the headstones have pictures of tractors, farms ans silo's.....one of them say's, "Thanks for Stopping By!"

[redqueen]

9. I think it would, yes.

I've seen far too many zombie movies.

[Burma Jones]

10. I worked behind a Funeral Home in Silver Spring, MD

I had a window cubicle overlooking the back of the mortuary where they would bring folks in. There were at least ten a day as this was a fairly busy place. Tuesdays and Fridays were Cremation Days. Having that sort of view made my co-workers and I rather circumspect regarding our basic Beltway Bandit jobs.

A few years later, after we had moved our offices down Georgia Avenue, A Crematorium/Funeral Services place opened about a block from my house on Gist Avenue in Silver Spring. Also nearby was the Bakery that served some 100 or so Giant (name of chain, not adjective) grocery stores. So, sometimes the air would be filled with the aroma of cinnamon buns being made by the ton and sometimes you were left wondering just who the hell was barbequeing at 9:00 in the morning.......

Gist Avenue was an odd place to live. We had Dave Grohl before he went to Seattle and Nirvava, as well as Root Boy Slim living on that street. Mary Chapin Carpenter lived the next block over. We were a block from Takoma Park....... Sometimes you could hear gunshots from nearby Shepherd Park.......

[auntAgonist]

11. I worked in funeral homes

It doesn't bother me at all. In fact I always considered it a priviledge to look after those who had died, and their families.

[pdx_prog]

20. Great attitude.......eom

[greyfox]

13. I really REALLY do try....

NOT to feel them at all.

[Dora]

14. The body is a shell.

After death, it's empty.

[Texasgal]

15. My husband works part-time at a funeral home

It's largely hispanic and catholic. He drives funerals, assists families, hangs out for Rosary's, dresses bodies. It dosen't bother him at all.

The only thing that gets to him are babies and children.

And once, only once he got freaked out over the remains of a man that was delivered in pieces in a small bag, he had fallen down the meat grinder at a Michael Angeleo's plant. His body was literally in pieces, they cremated him. :(

[Xipe Totec]

16. Too Cold, Rigid And Unmoving

I like them better alive.

[qnr]

17. They're cool. As long as they don't raid the refrigerator, or leave

rotting flesh all over the place.

[Solon]

18. Feel pretty good actually...

Just joined the ranks, so to speak! :evilgrin:

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. I don't.

The authorities frown on that sort of thing.