I saw one when I was a kid in Mexico. I was kind of mesmerized by the fact that it was a human body, but no longer a human. I spent a long time trying to process that I was looking at a[i] thing and not a human[/i], It was obvious to me, but hard to reconcile.
My step dad was in this cheap hospital in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. In those days it was the dirtiest town I had ever seen. I was exploring in the brush behind the hospital, and came upon this fenced in area,, where they would drained the blood out of the bodies as they replaced the blood with formaldehyde. The blood went into a sewage grate on the floor! There was a weird sour sweet smell that I will never forget. I considered later that they might do that work outside to prevent smelling up the inside of the hospital. That's where I saw the body and the process. Whoever was doing the work must have stepped in while I was looking because no one else was there.

Sadly, I have seen hundreds or maybe even thousands, acting as a forensic Nurse who was at some of the the mass graves in Bosnia in the mid 90's, seconded to the ICMP, we unburied countless dead, Men, Women and so many children. At first you are terribly affected by it, unfortunately, you become inured to it eventually as your brain simply cannot process it all, the smell and the silence are the things i remember the most as it took months to get it out of my system even after coming home. Like many of us, i puked, i cried, many sleepless nights... Not meaning to sound heartless but you can't imagine the evil until you've seen what Mankind will do to each other.

I cant imagine...

The only dead body I have seen was my father's ...

I held his hand and kissed his forehead...

I saw both my parents. My mother had died about half an hour before I got to the hospial. She looked very peaceful. I was with my father when he had a heart attack - the emergency services talked me through resuscitation procedure while the ambulance was on its way. I knew inside me, though, that he was already dead.

Depends on the context of the situation

I smelled a dead body about 19 years ago but thought it was an dog that maybe a coyote killed in a patch of woods behind the apartments where I lived. It was a young woman’s body, she lived in the duplexes across the street and had come up missing. A few days later the police took cadaver dogs out there to search the area and couldn’t find her body. This was in August and she would have been decaying by then. I have a feeling someone may have been holding her against her will and took her there later and hung her body in a tree. A boy found her skeleton a few months later and thought it was a Halloween prank and he took the bones and piled them up behind one of the buildings. He couldn’t get the skull loose so he asked an old man if he had any bolt cutters he could borrow. The man said he thought he better find out what that boy was up to before he loaned out his bolt cutters. So he walked around and watched the boy and found the pile of bones and called the police. They interviewed the boy and asked him why he was collecting the bones and he said when his mother was gone he was going to pull back her bedspread and reassemble them in her bed and pull the covers back on top to pull a prank on her. I don’t understand why it took so long to find that body. There was a group of teens that would go out there at night and smoke dope or whatever. Did they find it and decide not to go around there any more or were they a part of it or what? Too many unresolved questions. I moved away in December so wasn’t there when it was found

It is an uncomfortable feeling ... sends the heartbeat to 200

Is it still warm? 🤔

If its someone I love, it devastates me. In school , I dissected a cadaver in class. When they are ripe in a house for a few days...dont go in there without something over your face to cover the scent (thieves) . That smell takes its time going away

Well I did and some times sadly in pieces. I got a very good and healthy respect for what weapons of war can do to the human body... unpleasant but eye opening and you are quickly humbled.

I have very frequently... I usually have one stay in the room with me. 😵

I found my colleague at work who committed suicide, dead, in the server room at my old work. Not a pretty sight

Turned out, she wasn't actually dead.
Just not into me.

I've seen a few. It's not nice. It's very strange to see the human body with no soul inside it. It doesn't look real.

I have. It didn’t affect me as I thought

As a firefighter Saw my fair share.

Calling the cops is the right thing to do. Avoiding cops keeps life pleasant and simple.

Notify the cops anonymously unless you like being quizzed at odd hours and being asked the same three questions fifty different ways.

My neighbor had a heart attack in his garage the UPS guy saw him laying there and came over to my house in a panic I went over and checked it was very weird but he felt cold and wasnt breathing

I was travelling around india a few years ago and saw someone get slammed by a truck. Not pretty.

Only inside of a funeral home or at a funeral in a church, never anywhere else.

Depends on whose it is.

I've seen enough and it's not good

I would not be happy about that.

I’d freak out

It would depend on the situation.
At a funeral, conduct myself accordingly.
If it was a suspicious death, call 911, and preserve the scene.

*HyperGirl I apologize for pucking up your thread. I didn't intend to. I just say a lot more than I'm asked to say sometimes...........

Depends upon who is dead, the location of the body, and how I happened to notice it.

i would call the police and i would enjoy the silence next to them in the meantime

Before or after I soil myself? 🤔

If I just saw it laying there unattended I'd call the police...and then freak the fuck out.

call the police and have a Mc. Donald’s or KFC or something after lol

this is one of my biggest fears. I will freak out

steal the organs and sell.

Am I at a funeral?

I've seen one before

Call the police?

I'd probably study them

For science

Run away and call cops from a " safe" distance lmao. I think when I was little I watched a horror movie where corpses came alive got up like zombies and chased you. I might still have that fear sometimes lol

faint

The same way every time I open the big freezer.

I've seen a few dead bodies. Its not scary maybe odd and sometimes very sad because we are used to seeing people alive more than dead but its not scary.
Its scary that people live their whole life never confronted with the idea of death which will happen to all of us that are alive.

Once someone handed me a huge thigh, leg, foot in a garbage bag. It was heavy and odd like a rack of brisket but oddly shaped.