“He turned his head to look at me before I heard a gurgle.
Then he was gone, just like that.”
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Updated 8 years ago,July 14, 2017
1.
Flickr /Ben Smith
His body was rigid for a second, then just kinda melted around the shape of the curb.
Suicide jumper was pretty unnerving.
He fell from several stories up and landed on the curb.
Flickr /Ben Smith
His body was rigid for a second, then just kinda melted around the shape of the curb.
electric_popcorn_cat
2.
He blew his chest wall out with a 20-gauge shotgun from a distance of 8 feet.
A 12-year-olds beating heart and breathing lungs.
He blew his chest wall out with a 20-gauge shotgun from a distance of 8 feet.
He propped the gun against a fence post to cross the fence.
The gun fell and went off.
markko79
3.
His face literally drained of color going from pink to grey right in front of me.
A watched a man die after a Police Officer shot him in the head.
The guy was having a mental breakdown inside the Tullys Coffee across the street from my apartment.
I watched this stand off for at least 15 minutes before the action was outside my line of sight.
Of course I ran down to the street like the rubberneckers I am.
His face literally drained of color going from pink to grey right in front of me.
I had never seen anyone die before so it really shook me up.
pwuust
4.
He apologized for dying.
Apologized for fucking dying.
The first soldier I ever lost.He knew he was dying, he knew it.
He told the Medic and I that were were full of shit and to stop lying because he knew.
He told the Medic to save his kit, in case someone he could help took a hit.
He was alright with it, dying in a place like that.
Raw sewage, burning garbage.
Rifles, machine guns, and spent gun powder.
Helicopters and RPG fire.
He apologized for dying.
Apologized for fucking dying.
How hard can you get?
He wasnt even 21, and he apologized for dying in a place like that.
Projectile_Setback
5.
Literally couldnt tell the race of three men, just hamburger.
Errant heavy artillery shell.
Literally couldnt tell the race of three men, just hamburger.
flandall
6.
When I was 17, I still lived at my moms house.
We were in a middle-class neighborhood, so it wasnt necessarily a bad area for the most part.
I was taking out the garbage one night as the sun had just gone down.
I walked the first garbage can out and these two men were arguing across the street.
The man with the gun stared directly at me, then turned and fled.
As far as I know, they never caught the guy.
jack-shit
7.
Whatever it is I saw, my brain noped out.
Train station in Tokyo.
I didnt close my eyes, didnt look away, I know I saw it.
Whatever it is I saw, my brain noped out.
unrazor
8.
Not sure if being electrocuted killed him or the fall.
When I was about 10 I saw a man fall from a ladder and die.
In Cincinnati, OH some of the hills are ridiculously steep and the buildings are tall to accommodate.
The man had to be up 4 stories or more, Idk I was young.
I didnt really understand what I had seen.
Not sure if being electrocuted killed him or the fall.
smurfee123
9.
Not a pretty sight.
The aftermath of a drunk driving accident.
Dude decided to fly down the road at ~90mph, hits another car head-on.
The person in that car was killed instantly.
The drunk driver wasnt wearing a seatbelt.
Flew out his windshield, his car kept traveling and ran over him.
Not a pretty sight.
gothamwarrior
10.
My cousins house backed up to woods and the creek was about a mile deep behind their home.
We played by there pretty much every day during the summer.
One thing we used to do was swing from one side to the other with a swing we made.
One day we were swinging and one of our buddies (Josh) slipped.
It wasnt super uncommon to slip.
You usually just fell in the creek, got wet, and went home and changed later.
This time was different.
The impact was so bad and he was bleeding profusely.
My brother jumped in to see to it he didnt drown.
I ended up running back to my aunts house with one of my cousins and a friend.
My brother, other cousin, and another friend stayed back.
We got help but it was too late by that point.
It was just a freak accident.
We fell so many times off that stupid swing and nothing ever happened.
He just fell wrong that day and it ended his life.
I could hear his parents screams from my aunts backyard when they got back there.
That experience changed me as a person.
This occurred in 1995.
For the young ones out there, that was before cell phones were mainstream.
Shostakovich22
11.
It was the scariest two minutes of my life.
Ive been waiting to say this for some time.
My father drowning.It was a couple summers ago in a local river.
We were wading, catching a ton of catfish.
Like I said, we were catching them left and right.
He is in front of me, and then he isnt.
He comes back up repeatedly saying that he dropped his pole.
Im like okay no big deal, its a $60 rod, its replaceable, right?
He was wearing jeans with lace-up boots (wtf?)
And Im like fuck my dads drowning.I just went into survival mode.
And its just not working.
Fuck it, Im just gonna grab him by the collar and pull him along.
This worked extremely well.
Maybe 15 seconds later, we could touch the bottom.
He is fucking exhausted, I kinda am as well.
I make a run at feel for the line connected to the pole, connected to his leg.
It was the stringer (with catfish) around his legs.
And the hook was a barb from one of the fish poking his leg.
We made it to shore (finally) and just broke down crying.
We laid there for probably an hour.
He threw up a considerable amount of water afterwards.
It was the scariest two minutes of my life.
RustyCock
12.
He just kept making panic noises and flailing.
I worked as a patient advocate at a hospital for about 9 months.
One of my jobs was to sweep through the ER and check on everyone.
I saw a lot of people die but one of my first nights I will never forget.
He was flailing around on the stretcher and making loud groaning sounds.
His eyes were wide open and very panicked looking.
They were darting around the room and he looked right at me.
I saw his fear.
The team was using the paddles on him at that point.
At that point his daughter rushed through the curtains and I realized it was my job to console her.
I somehow got her to follow me to the quiet room but obviously she was inconsolable.
I couldnt shake that eerie feeling for days.
I feel dizzy writing about it 5 years later.
YourWinter87
13.
I remember the screams and sound when she hit the floor.
My grandpa got us front row tickets.
There was a lady who climbs up this scarf that runs from the ceiling to the floor.
As she reached the top she fell all the way down.
I barely remember most of this, but I remember the screams and sound when she hit the floor.
My mom has filled me in on the rest of the details.
whorcruz
14.
I remember seeing his dads brains.
Was playing with a friend at apartments where we lived.
Apartment parking entrance was at the other end of the apartments.
Friends dad gets on his motorcycle to go somewhere.
From the entrance to where we were playing is maybe 300 yards away.
His das turns out into the road and accelerates quickly and gives a beep-beep as he is passing by.
He went maybe another 50 feet and was hit head on by an oncoming car.
The car came to a stop right in front of us.
I remember seeing his dads brains.
He was wearing a helmet and it was worn down as the car dragged him down the road.
There did end up being a lot of blood but it didnt gush out at all.
I remember later that day going back to that spot.
There was a blood puddle right off the road and files all over it.
I was 9 years old.
I dont remember the kids name or his dads name.
We had the exact same car and color.
I remember the blood puddle and all the flies.
The flies werent house flies they had a green metallic color.
I was more disturbed by the flies.
I think I was in shock or something because I dont remember reacting to the accident that much.
Other than the fear of the screeching tires.
dawhoo
15.
WHAT THE FUCK HE REALLY ISNT BREATHING HES NOT BREATHING.
My boyfriend of 7 years sat up in bed and said I think Im having a seizure?
then started convulsing violently.
Then I realized he was unconscious.
Then i realized he wasnt breathing.
This was the first time my hands were free so i called 911.
Up until this moment he was having a seizure and, what the fuck?
it doesnt seem like hes breathing?
Ill wrap this up.
he was completely braindead.
I guess his tissue was already dying.
The way i felt in the months after his death was as terrifying as watching him die.
Im hesitant to say i was suicidal but there was a period of time where i wouldve welcomed death.
Dirt-McGirt
16.
He died instantly and his lifeless body was hanging there for about an hour and a half.
I watched a guy in Portland climb an electrical pole and touch the wire.
He died instantly and his lifeless body was hanging there for about an hour and a half.
Worst day of my life.
babycactus69
17.
He turned his head to look at me before I heard a gurgle.
Then he was gone, just like that.
I cant remember the exact age when I saw this, but I remember everything else.
When I was a kid, I wanna say 10.
I lived in a semi niceish neighborhood.
where everyone knew everyone and no one really locked the doors because why would you need too?
Indoor rock garage, he had it.
A personal salon hair cutting place for his wife.
This guy had everything, huge TV surround sound.
Well one day for a change of pace they were having a party at my uncles.
Now Im not gonna lie.
Usually its pitch black by this time and all I had was a light post with limited vision.
Normally I wouldnt be looking anywhere but back down my street when I head home.
I noticed a car with its blinkers on run into the empty dirt lot by the stores.
One of the doors was open and there was an arm hanging out.
I never been the most intelligent person in these cases.
I always ran towards the danger not away from it.
In a way b-rated horror movies would have been proud of.
His face was a mess, the lower half looked blown off.
I was fairly certain he was dead, he should have been dead.
He turned his head to look at me before I heard a gurgle.
The worst thing you’re able to imagine as someone was drowning from their own blood.
Then he was gone, just like that.
I didnt know what to do, so I did what I thought was logical.
I ran home and hid.
Gangs and drugs started seeping in and that was just the start of a really bad situation.
Ive seen worse since, but that was the one that got to me.
It was the one that stuck with me, and gave me nightmares.
lainloki
18.
My whole world had shattered.
I was 14 when my mam suffered an aneurysm and was rushed to the hospital.
She couldnt speak or move easily and she had this terrified look of confusion on her face.
I just sat there, beside her bed.
Everything fell away and every inch of my body went hollow.
I just sat there staring at her, hoping to see a twitch or some other sign of life.
The doctor nodded solemnly.
My whole world had shattered.
I was lost and completely numb.
What did this mean for the rest of my life?
How was I going to cope without her?
What am I supposed to do now?
