I'm talking about outside of a viewing ceremony at a funeral...
I've seen three and unfortunately all of them were extremely tragic.
1. When I was in 5th grade we found a dead guy at my elementary school. He was a high school aged guy and he was lying on the slide on the playground with a bullet hole through his head. I think they eventually ruled it a suicide, but I was a young 5th grader who was traumatized by it since I saw him close up, before officials were notified. I ended up having to see a therapist that they brought to the school for us kids who had seen the body and those others who hadn't and were still shaken up about it. They ended up taking the slide out of the playground and they still to this day have not replaced it.
2. When I was about 13 or 14 my sister, dad and I were at a gas station. There was a restaurant right by the gas station. A family walked out of the restaurant and headed towards their car in the parking lot. Their 5 year old son broke free of his mom's grasp and took off running. He ran right into the middle of the road with his parents chasing after him trying to catch him. We witnessed a car slam into him killing him instantly. The driver of the vehicle freaked out and took off and later turned herself in. We had to stay so that my dad could talk to police and give a report.
3. The last one was just last winter when I was still living in Virginia. It was the day we got the first big winter snowstorm (Dec 19 I believe) that resulted in about 4 feet of snow. I was working as a dog walker in Sterling, VA and had just finished walking my last dog and was on my way home. The roads were slippery and icey. I took a turn onto a back street to try and get home faster before it started snowing because I'm terrified to drive in snow. I noticed a car accident and there was no police on the scene so naturally I stopped. There were two vehicles slammed into each other, but everyone seemed to be ok. The third vehicle was an suv that was upside down in a ditch and a man (the driver of that vehicle) was in the middle of the road bleeding. I ran over to check on him. He had hit his head and had a gash with a lot of blood. His body looked twisted up and bad, but I felt around trying to find a pulse. There was none. By that time someone else had also stopped at the scene and they were on the phone with a dispatcher. I stayed until the police arrived and had to give a report and then drove home shaking like crazy.
I've seen three and unfortunately all of them were extremely tragic.
1. When I was in 5th grade we found a dead guy at my elementary school. He was a high school aged guy and he was lying on the slide on the playground with a bullet hole through his head. I think they eventually ruled it a suicide, but I was a young 5th grader who was traumatized by it since I saw him close up, before officials were notified. I ended up having to see a therapist that they brought to the school for us kids who had seen the body and those others who hadn't and were still shaken up about it. They ended up taking the slide out of the playground and they still to this day have not replaced it.
2. When I was about 13 or 14 my sister, dad and I were at a gas station. There was a restaurant right by the gas station. A family walked out of the restaurant and headed towards their car in the parking lot. Their 5 year old son broke free of his mom's grasp and took off running. He ran right into the middle of the road with his parents chasing after him trying to catch him. We witnessed a car slam into him killing him instantly. The driver of the vehicle freaked out and took off and later turned herself in. We had to stay so that my dad could talk to police and give a report.
3. The last one was just last winter when I was still living in Virginia. It was the day we got the first big winter snowstorm (Dec 19 I believe) that resulted in about 4 feet of snow. I was working as a dog walker in Sterling, VA and had just finished walking my last dog and was on my way home. The roads were slippery and icey. I took a turn onto a back street to try and get home faster before it started snowing because I'm terrified to drive in snow. I noticed a car accident and there was no police on the scene so naturally I stopped. There were two vehicles slammed into each other, but everyone seemed to be ok. The third vehicle was an suv that was upside down in a ditch and a man (the driver of that vehicle) was in the middle of the road bleeding. I ran over to check on him. He had hit his head and had a gash with a lot of blood. His body looked twisted up and bad, but I felt around trying to find a pulse. There was none. By that time someone else had also stopped at the scene and they were on the phone with a dispatcher. I stayed until the police arrived and had to give a report and then drove home shaking like crazy.