Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 AMEN Brother, I mean Subdeacon.
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 Making death notifications was not a fun part of the job.
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 21, 2020 Author Posted February 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: AMEN Brother, I mean Subdeacon. Or just the common usage here, SDJ. Kind of odd, except at the Chalice I rarely use that title at church. What with the priests and deacons, and occasionally a bishop or two around it seems kind of pretentious there.
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 54 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said: Making death notifications was not a fun part of the job. Did to many-several still haunt me to this day. The worst was telling a parent that their child was dead, through no fault of the child. OLG
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 6 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Did to many-several still haunt me to this day. The worst was telling a parent that their child was dead, through no fault of the child. OLG Agreed. Saw every emotion you can name doing that. Been attacked, had doors slammed in my face, saw quiet acceptance and had to have medical treatment for parents after delivering the horrible news.
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 2 hours ago, LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L said: Agreed. Saw every emotion you can name doing that. Been attacked, had doors slammed in my face, saw quiet acceptance and had to have medical treatment for parents after delivering the horrible news. I had one parent commit suicide, just hours after I told them their child had been killed in a TC that I had responded to. The kid's car was hit head on by a DUI driver. OLG
Three Foot Johnson Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 My oldest daughter, my only child at the time, was killed by a drunk driver in her mother's front yard on May 4th, 1981. She was 21 months old. I don't remember the dog's reaction.
Sixgun Sheridan Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 16 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Actually the caption should read "Someone else's dog will wonder why their owner never came home". It seems over and over I hear of drunk drivers killing the poor person they hit, yet walking away from the accident complaining of nothing but their hangover afterwards.
Smoken D Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 14 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Did to many-several still haunt me to this day. The worst was telling a parent that their child was dead, through no fault of the child. OLG When I left the PD the unit figured that I handled around 300 dead children alone. Notifications, autopsy, wound charts, photographs.
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Smoken D said: When I left the PD the unit figured that I handled around 300 dead children alone. Notifications, autopsy, wound charts, photographs. Taking the photographs was the second hardest part for me. Still, it didn't compare to telling the family...... OLG
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