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I was sitting on a train platform in the morning when a man went to the furthest platform and jumped under the fast train. Hie death was pretty much instant and neat, he was clean portions, ricocheted in a few directions; arm; head... It was cold and tragic and silencing and there was a hush of respect and dismay in the station. The ugliest thing I have ever seen, however, was the squawking, chattering, camera-waving crowd that grew on the railway bridge above us. It felt like we left on the platform had gone to a funeral and they had gone to a public ball game and I just couldn't wrap my head around their fascination with the gore and indifference for the moment. Thanks for making me think back. I think I was 12 or 13.
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Probably an accident victim on the side of the road, dead. He was a bicycler who was hit by a car. Other stuff similar to that is right up there... a head-on collision victim, fortunately still inside the car so I couldn't see too much. Was another fatality. :
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I saw someone with a large hole in their chest take 5 minutes to die. We stood and watched helpless.
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Intentional physical or emotional harm to another being. :(
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A "head-on", high speed car crash on the highway. Bodies laying everywhere in the smoke. I know for sure that 5 died right there, and another child during the night. It was back in the "c-b" radio days, and the lady who caused the accident (and had 3 kids in her car, who were all killed as a result), had passed us doing over 100 m.p.h., just minutes before. We had just contacted the Highway Patrol when we rounded the bend, into the smoky, beer can-laden, resulting tragedy. Two newlyweds were also killed when there truck (that took the "head-on" hit), burst into flames and killed them. In the aftermath, it was learned that she was despondent over the break-up of a relationship, had gotten plastered, and just took off with the kids. It's a scene that you can never forget, and it's why I always wonder why people slow-down to "gawk" at the scene of major (or even minor) accidents. It something I hope to NEVER see again!
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When i was driving a military lorry and in front of me my friend was in an accident. When I got to him his body was half sticking out of the roof.
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When I lived in Puerto Rico, I saw a guy in a motorcycle accident. He wasn't wearing a helmet and only wore pants and t-shirt. I can't even explain the horror...
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I'm amazed at the other 7 answers. Yes, each and every one of those was tragic to be seen. I'm sorry those folks had to be a first person witness. However, a little over 7 years ago, on September 11, 2001 to be exact, at the almost-southern tip of Manhattan, two jet planes were deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center towers. Those crashes caused the tragic deaths of almost 3,000 innocent people. How quickly those other 7 folks, who previously answered, forgot. I wasn't witness to the complete tragedy in person, but I saw the aftermath and events which followed on TV. VTY, Ron Berue Yes, that is my real last name! Sources: Some personal observations and opinions.
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The documentary film: "The Silent Scream" and the attitudes that accompany it.
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As a police officer I have seen many horrific images, amazed at what the body can do and look like at a scene of an accident. But the very worst for me that will haunt me forever and actually made me pass out afterwards was watching the video of the beheading of Jack Hensley. Jack Hensley was an American engineer from Marietta, GA. While working in Iraq he was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists. His colleague, Eugene Armstrong, was beheaded the previous day. Their killers, Tawhid and Jihad, the terrorist group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, were demanding the release of Iraqi women in U.S. custody. I had accidently clicked on a link that diverted me directly to that video, and not knowing at the time Americans were going through that.
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I once saw an actual video of a man who fell into a lake and was killed and eaten by an alligator. I believe he was a conservation officer and was trying to help catch the alligator, but he fell into the water and was killed before my eyes. I couldn't believe what I saw, and it was horrible. The tragedy of it all. Very sad.
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The ugliest thing I ever saw was a picture of Dr.Laura on the cover of a book. (that was in a 2nd hand bookstore it really should have been in the trash).
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