Would you want to view the body of a close loved one of yours that was horribly mangled and/or burned to death in a car crash?
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No, I think I would prefer to remember them as they were when they were alive.
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As difficult as it would be, I would want to see the remains of a loved one if all other means of identification have been try'd.
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I think I would rather remember them the way they were.
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No I wouldn't want to see it but I would need to see it.
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If that was the only way for the police/coroner to get positive ID, then I'd say I could at LEAST give my loved one that much. There was an insurance scam by a woman & her husband where they burned the body of an illegal immigrant in HIS car - since the charred body had the husbands ID they declared him dead and gave the woman his Life Insurance money. People are sick in this world today.
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I wouldn't want to see the body of any close loved one no matter how they died. I wouldn't want that to be my last memory of them.
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No. It would be hard enough to know they were dead, much less what they looked like afterwards.
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I would not want to see it, but, I would do whatever I had to . I would do it for two reasons. #1 To make sure they got the dignified burial they deserve and to make sure what needed to be done was done. #2 For closure
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Yes. It would be the hardest thing in the world, but yes.
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I think I would want to remember what they looked like before the wreck, I'd probably never be able to get that picture out of my head!
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Never. I wouldn't ever want that vision in my memory.
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No. I'd want to kiss them good bye no matter what.
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nope.
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id be okay with it. Ive seen it all, and nothing could shock me. Ive seen mangled, burned, chopped, turned inside out bodies, you name it ive seen it Id want to still pay my respects, after all a body is just mangled, "horribly" is just a label our own mind puts on top of the experience
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If it was my husband, I would need to see his face to make it clear to me that he is truly dead. They could drape the rest of his body. If his face is mangled, I would like to see his back to identify him by his tattoos.
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No not at all...
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I'd have to, for closure if nothing else.
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Not unless their case was dependent upon my identifying their remains and I was the only one who could? I have watched people die... I have seen people after the fact and it is not something I appreciated or let go of easily.
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i had a very close friend pass away in a car accident and his mother would not have an open casket because she wanted his friends and family to remember him the way he was not the way he looked after the accident. I personally am thankful she did so because i don't think i could have handled seeing him that way, or anyone else for that matter!
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One of my ex's burned to death in a fire, and yes, I wish I could of seen him to say good-bye.
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I wouldn't want to view the body of a perfect stranger that was horribly mangled .
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no, I would want to remember them the way they were.
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No. Imagination is vivid enough without details to confirm. I am already tragically sad over the loss, I do not wish the last memory I have to be of horror, pain and suffering. We cannot bring our loved ones back by torturing ourselves, and viewing what has happened to them that caused the end of their life is most definately toruture.
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No, I wouldn't want that memory etched in my brain. I just pray that I will never have to identify a close loved one this way. My cousin was decapitated in a car accident and my parents had to make the identification because his couldn't. His wake and funeral were closed casket.
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Already did
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my friend died in a car accident. it was hard, but like the first answer, i would want to remember how that person was.
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NO!
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yes, if it was my wife,son ,daughter,mother are one of my siblings. I have never seen a loved one mangled or burned, but I saw my dad in his bed the morning he dident wake up. I saw my grandfather shaking moneing and unable to speak battling cancer, He other grandfather is still alive but has alzimers. It is the hardist thange that I have ever done and with my liveing loved ones the bases of my worst nightmares. I have to see them that last time to realize that thay have gone home to the lord. Its hard to belive but know one moment can ever take away the love and memories that I still and alway will have for them.
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