Could you hold a dying child without crying?

[renard_ruse]

Seriously, I don't think I could. Maybe you toughen up because you have to comfort the child. I don't know though.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-...to-a-dying-child/ar-AAlt4Oz?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

[Noor]

Seriously, I don't think I could. Maybe you toughen up because you have to comfort the child. I don't know though.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-...to-a-dying-child/ar-AAlt4Oz?OCID=ansmsnnews11

I probably could. I ran on an ambulance, I have held dying people's hands.
Later you lose it, but not while you are there. You just talk to them like normal.
It never gave me nightmares. What does occasionally give me nightmares was the summer I saw three people die, I see it happen again and I can't stop it.
Each one was a different form of totally needless.
One of them was so horrific, it haunted me for a couple years until I ran into one of the seriously injured survivors of the last death who was also haunted and wanted to know what I saw. I was able to reassure them about what happened and that they hadn't let anyone down and then the haunting stopped.

 

[RoryN]

Seriously, I don't think I could.

That's why the Santa in this story told the weaker people to get out of the room, so he could do his thing. And, by doing so, that kid probably found some semblance of peace as he passed.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Probably. I mean I didn't bat an eye over my grandparents of any of my uncles. I don't see why some stranger would choke me up.

 

[silver gurl]

Probably. I mean I didn't bat an eye over my grandparents of any of my uncles. I don't see why some stranger would choke me up.

Not even a child?

 

[Ms_Ann]

Could you have an abortion without crying?

 

[RoryN]

Not even a child?

Human response to intense emotion varies greatly.

The "depth" of the tragedy doesn't matter. Nor is it a litmus test for compassion.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Not even a child?

It's not my child. I think I'd be fine, but I'll probably never know for sure. Depending on the circumstances I'd probably be fairly pissed off.

 

[Christobal]

This feels like an internet hoax.

 

[Noor]

Could you have an abortion without crying?

Probably. Not sure how I would feel later in life. It might depend on why I needed to have an abortion.

 

[RNJAG]

As a retired fire fighter I can tell you that I've attended and worked numerous fatalities involving children. Some were gone before we got there, some despite our best efforts were not to survive. Of course some are still around today. The toughest ones, for me, are the ones that you work your ass off trying to keep them above ground and inspite of our best efforts they do not survive. The ones you are most invested in are the ones that affect you the most. Yet the one, to this day, that has bothered me the most (and still does) is the one where a mother and daughter were both killed instantly. The difficulty for me was this family was eerily similar to mine. I kept it together until I got home from the call.... I still get choked up, even now writing this.

Sorry for the derailment, but to answer the op's question -- no - not at the time of death. Afterwards? Absolutely. I can 110% relate to the Santa in the news story. Been there done that.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

As a retired fire fighter I can tell you that I've attended and worked numerous fatalities involving children. Some were gone before we got there, some despite our best efforts were not to survive. Of course some are still around today. The toughest ones, for me, are the ones that you work your ass off trying to keep them above ground and inspite of our best efforts they do not survive. The ones you are most invested in are the ones that affect you the most. Yet the one, to this day, that has bothered me the most (and still does) is the one where a mother and daughter were both killed instantly. The difficulty for me was this family was eerily similar to mine. I kept it together until I got home from the call.... I still get choked up, even now writing this.

Sorry for the derailment, but to answer the op's question -- no - not at the time of death. Afterwards? Absolutely. I can 110% relate to the Santa in the news story. Been there done that.

I was a fireman 45 years ago, and what you say is true. You get them to the ER and the docs lose them.

But my thoughts go back 50 years to Vietnam where we hadda deal with kiddies moving claymore mines around. The country boys knew what to do. They loaded shotgun shells with salt. Birdshot wont kill either, but salt dissolves with a bath,

 

[hashtag4]

I don't get this thread.
Does the OP have a taste for the macabre or what?

 

[JoanneA]

Too long, didn't read. I know of at least 1 person who rocks crack babies. You would have to be a special person, and obviously they do background checks for volunteers.

 

[Tigersman]

I've done CPR as a nurse before the code team arrived. Between my actions and the code team the patient was revived only to die after she was transferred to CCU ten minutes later. My shift supervisor told me to take some time to pull myself back together. I only started to break up after I found out the patient coded again and did not survive.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Kids in 3rd world war torn shit holes are like stray dogs.

Wind up getting killed like them regularly too.

It wouldn't be a big deal watching another one die, I probably wouldn't hold it though. In the US it wouldn't be worth my time.

In a place where I could help I'd offer a mercy kill and if no then I'd just go get a beer or sandwich or both.

Either way I'd sleep fine.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Whatever trauma endured by the gentleman playing Santa, I hope he eventually comes to realize that in the very moment that dying child was in desperate need of hope, he provided it.

There is surely no greater gift he could have given.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Could you hold a dying child without crying?

I never cry with a full mouth.

 

[juttjaw]

I have and i can.

I couldn't view his body tho. I broke the fuck down.