I rather not be confronted with them unanounced, thank you.

No

Matter of fact I had a very vivid dream that included one last night

not anymore. when my dad died i realized that a corpse is just a shell of someone who has moved on from this earthly plane.

Only if they're coming after you!

mcmeekle said:

actually it wasnt bad when the fuckers could hardly walk fast but since they started bloody sprinting in Dawn Of The Dead the zombie genre now officialy scares the crap out of me.

Not scared but they just make me feel ill.

Not if they look like Steph.

Cloudbuster said:

DanceWme said:

Oh hell, YES!!!

Cloudbuster said:

i think most people are uncomfortable around corpses because it forces people to confront their own mortality. at least, that's how i feel.

I don't like them.

I'm not sure I'd call it fear, I just don't want to be in the same room with them. At all of my grandparent's funerals, I just didn't even want to see their bodies. I frankly find it extremely distasteful, the open casket thing.

I'm not afraid of them, but I find them unsettling. And, like Carrie, I don't view corpses at funerals and memorial services.

CarrieMpls said:

I don't get the whole wanting to touch and kiss them either

veronikka said:

It's different when it's your own family. When my sister passed away at 22 I did kiss her forhead. My mother and father kissed her hands and face. It was especially hard on my mother who could not let her go.

They used to really bother me. I've been to 20000 funerals and as a kid I would sit there and stare at the body. I swore that it moved a little every time.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I think this is fascinating, in part because I think we all have similar sensitivities. But indulge me: If the corpse moved -- and not just because of gas buildup or some chemical thing -- but actually moved as a sign of life or near-life or something, exactly what about that would be so terrifying?

(By the way, I'm not suggesting I wouldn't be terrified also!! )
[Edited 8/20/08 11:23am]

Lammastide said:

Probably because, as a child, I would think it was a zombie.

OMG, that reminds me. I went to a funeral where the woman (a close friend/neighbor) was buried in her wedding dress. I had nightmares for weeks. It still creeps me out.
[Edited 8/20/08 11:33am]

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Me too!

But that makes me wonder if the uneasiness we feel around corpses is learned... and largely by folk culture. (Though not fear of death, because I suspect a fear of one's own death is probably more biologically imprinted.)
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Lammastide said:

Yeah, I think it's learned. There must be an ick factor imprinted in our subconscious though.

dannyd5050 said:

That's understandable

I haven't had anyone that close pass away, therefore never felt the need to touch or kiss the ones I have seen. But I can see why one would do it with someone you are very close to. That must have been very difficult for all of you

I knew I shouldn't have started the other thread...

I have sat with both my Grandad's as they've died, the second one a couple of months ago. My Grandad's corpe didn't scare me in any way, once he had passed it was just his shell laying there but the look of struggling had also left.

However I don't like seeing corpses in the Funeral parlour, they just don't look right and once left me with a bad image in my head of a loved one which really upset me for a long time

umm...

My first encounter viewing a deceased person was when I was a young child. My mother and I were out in the winter and the car broke down near a funeral home. We walked in there to ask to use a telephone to have the car towed. Well I was a curious child and I had wondered what a person looked liked once they passed on. I wondered off into the next room and saw a person in a casket. My curiosity was taken care of! I don't think I told my mom right away what I saw. I just remembered it for a long time.

I've also seen an autopsy in medical school and that is still pretty vivid as well as attended a few funerals with open caskets. I don't enjoy seeing deceased people and would much rather remember them when they were alive. But I'm not afraid of them either.

G0d said:

yes!!!!!

veronikka said:

Me neither.

yes, the living ones are somewhat scary