Have you ever seen a dead body?
How did you feel?
Upset? Traumatised? Relieved? Like poking it with a stick?
( , Thu 28 Feb 2008, 9:34)
How did you feel?
Upset? Traumatised? Relieved? Like poking it with a stick?
( , Thu 28 Feb 2008, 9:34)
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Nasty Shock
Last night, after having a particularly unproductive day at work, I stumbled back up the hill (knckered my ankle last weekend) and went home.
I went straight upstairs, dropped off my bag, took some laundry downstairs, past the living room door and put it on. Went back upstairs to continue doing some work on my laptop. See my flatmate's light on in his room, shout "hello" but no response. Must be asleep.
Door buzzer goes, its a couple of friends of Mark's (my flatmate) so I let them in and go in to the lounge with them. Turn the light on.
Ah. There is Mark on the living room floor, asleep. Nothing unusual there, he doesn't work, so sleeps whenever. Try and wake him up. Nothing.
Then we look over to the table, where there are all his prescription drugs, with a few of them taken out and a half-drunk glass of vodka and orange. Try and wake him up again. Nothing.
Fuck, his face is purple and his lips are blue, so i call an ambulance whilst Jo (one of the two mates of Mark's) starts chest compressions and giving him the kiss of life.
4 paramedics turn up in next to no time, but seemed like hours. They treied all they could, but said he had probably been there hours. Pronounced him dead within a couple of minutes.
Police and coroner comes out to take statements, with all of us shaking like fuck. I call my other flatmate who comes back from work within a few minutes. All of us just sat in a room, chain smoking wandering what the fuck has just happened.
Today, I'm still wandering what the fuck happened.
Posted 21/02/08
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The results are in.
My flatmate's post mortem and toxicology report say:
over 10 times the normal dose of Zopiclone. Basically fatal.
Not much of the other drugs that were out on the table when we found him were found in his system.
verdict: suicide
Posted 02/03/08
( , Sun 2 Mar 2008, 14:48, 3 replies)
Last night, after having a particularly unproductive day at work, I stumbled back up the hill (knckered my ankle last weekend) and went home.
I went straight upstairs, dropped off my bag, took some laundry downstairs, past the living room door and put it on. Went back upstairs to continue doing some work on my laptop. See my flatmate's light on in his room, shout "hello" but no response. Must be asleep.
Door buzzer goes, its a couple of friends of Mark's (my flatmate) so I let them in and go in to the lounge with them. Turn the light on.
Ah. There is Mark on the living room floor, asleep. Nothing unusual there, he doesn't work, so sleeps whenever. Try and wake him up. Nothing.
Then we look over to the table, where there are all his prescription drugs, with a few of them taken out and a half-drunk glass of vodka and orange. Try and wake him up again. Nothing.
Fuck, his face is purple and his lips are blue, so i call an ambulance whilst Jo (one of the two mates of Mark's) starts chest compressions and giving him the kiss of life.
4 paramedics turn up in next to no time, but seemed like hours. They treied all they could, but said he had probably been there hours. Pronounced him dead within a couple of minutes.
Police and coroner comes out to take statements, with all of us shaking like fuck. I call my other flatmate who comes back from work within a few minutes. All of us just sat in a room, chain smoking wandering what the fuck has just happened.
Today, I'm still wandering what the fuck happened.
Posted 21/02/08
---
The results are in.
My flatmate's post mortem and toxicology report say:
over 10 times the normal dose of Zopiclone. Basically fatal.
Not much of the other drugs that were out on the table when we found him were found in his system.
verdict: suicide
Posted 02/03/08
( , Sun 2 Mar 2008, 14:48, 3 replies)
FUCK
That's Lunesta--I didn't know you could overdose on that. I have to take that or Ambien every night.
I'm sorry you had to deal with all that. You couldn't have stopped him; please don't feel guilty.
( , Thu 6 Mar 2008, 5:55, closed)
That's Lunesta--I didn't know you could overdose on that. I have to take that or Ambien every night.
I'm sorry you had to deal with all that. You couldn't have stopped him; please don't feel guilty.
( , Thu 6 Mar 2008, 5:55, closed)
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