So... had a bird die in my hands yesterday

[Stark]

Pretty weird experience, now you all gonna say its just a bird, but neverless I never had anything actually die in my hands.

I drove home in the morning after I went quickly to the shop, see this bird flapping on the side of the road, park the car and walk back since I'm just unable to see an animal hurt.
Pick the bird up its a blackbird, hes hurt bad I can tell either both his legs are broken or more likely his back, right than I knew there isn't much I can do since I am a qualified zookeeer I know the difference between there is hope and that's it - he wasn't even grabbing my fingers.
So I had two choices, 1) I can leave it at the side of the road 2) I can take it home or kill it quick.
So I took it home, I have no problem killing animals but I have seen birds hit a window/car full force and they come around again, so I took it home.
Coming home I can see he's getting worse, eyes closed and he is breathing real heavy, so I put it in a box with a towel inside and another on top to give him a bit of darkness.

After five minutes I checked the box and he was still alive and in pain, so I made the decision to just hold it in my hands, after a few seconds when I picked him up - he was just breathing now no movement he spasm real hard and than he slowly died.

It was weird and very sad even if it was just a bird, I never thought I feel like that, its a completely different experience to - finding something dead.
I cannot even imagine what it must feel like to have a friend or other person die in your arms.

[Army of One]

I didnt see the no homo?

[Dr Dutch]

Pretty weird experience, now you all gonna say its just a bird, but neverless I never had anything actually die in my hands.

I drove home in the morning after I went quickly to the shop, see this bird flapping on the side of the road, park the car and walk back since I'm just unable to see an animal hurt.
Pick the bird up its a blackbird, hes hurt bad I can tell either both his legs are broken or more likely his back, right than I knew there isn't much I can do since I am a qualified zookeeer I know the difference between there is hope and that's it - he wasn't even grabbing my fingers.
So I had two choices, 1) I can leave it at the side of the road 2) I can take it home or kill it quick.
So I took it home, I have no problem killing animals but I have seen birds hit a window/car full force and they come around again, so I took it home.
Coming home I can see he's getting worse, eyes closed and he is breathing real heavy, so I put it in a box with a towel inside and another on top to give him a bit of darkness.

After five minutes I checked the box and he was still alive and in pain, so I made the decision to just hold it in my hands, after a few seconds when I picked him up - he was just breathing now no movement he spasm real hard and than he slowly died.

It was weird and very sad even if it was just a bird, I never thought I feel like that, its a completely different experience to - finding something dead.
I cannot even imagine what it must feel like to have a friend or other person die in your arms.

My dog died in my arms, probably poisoned we think. It's not nice.

[Stark]

I didnt see the no homo?

lol, I was serious, its very fucking weird and somewhat real sad - was liberating since I was pretty sure I was desensitized.

[Stark]

My dog died in my arms, probably poisoned we think. It's not nice.

Was he just gone? Like that?
Or did he drift away, that's what happened to the bird i could litteraly see and feel the life go away, heart slowed down and no more breathing than the head goes slowly limp.

[FlexGuns]

Pretty weird experience, now you all gonna say its just a bird, but neverless I never had anything actually die in my hands.

I drove home in the morning after I went quickly to the shop, see this bird flapping on the side of the road, park the car and walk back since I'm just unable to see an animal hurt.
Pick the bird up its a blackbird, hes hurt bad I can tell either both his legs are broken or more likely his back, right than I knew there isn't much I can do since I am a qualified zookeeer I know the difference between there is hope and that's it - he wasn't even grabbing my fingers.
So I had two choices, 1) I can leave it at the side of the road 2) I can take it home or kill it quick.
So I took it home, I have no problem killing animals but I have seen birds hit a window/car full force and they come around again, so I took it home.
Coming home I can see he's getting worse, eyes closed and he is breathing real heavy, so I put it in a box with a towel inside and another on top to give him a bit of darkness.

After five minutes I checked the box and he was still alive and in pain, so I made the decision to just hold it in my hands, after a few seconds when I picked him up - he was just breathing now no movement he spasm real hard and than he slowly died.

It was weird and very sad even if it was just a bird, I never thought I feel like that, its a completely different experience to - finding something dead.
I cannot even imagine what it must feel like to have a friend or other person die in your arms.

[flinstones1]

My dog died in my arms, probably poisoned we think. It's not nice.

same. Best dog I ever had too.

[Reeves]

Pretty weird experience, now you all gonna say its just a bird, but neverless I never had anything actually die in my hands.

I drove home in the morning after I went quickly to the shop, see this bird flapping on the side of the road, park the car and walk back since I'm just unable to see an animal hurt.
Pick the bird up its a blackbird, hes hurt bad I can tell either both his legs are broken or more likely his back, right than I knew there isn't much I can do since I am a qualified zookeeer I know the difference between there is hope and that's it - he wasn't even grabbing my fingers.
So I had two choices, 1) I can leave it at the side of the road 2) I can take it home or kill it quick.
So I took it home, I have no problem killing animals but I have seen birds hit a window/car full force and they come around again, so I took it home.
Coming home I can see he's getting worse, eyes closed and he is breathing real heavy, so I put it in a box with a towel inside and another on top to give him a bit of darkness.

After five minutes I checked the box and he was still alive and in pain, so I made the decision to just hold it in my hands, after a few seconds when I picked him up - he was just breathing now no movement he spasm real hard and than he slowly died.

It was weird and very sad even if it was just a bird, I never thought I feel like that, its a completely different experience to - finding something dead.
I cannot even imagine what it must feel like to have a friend or other person die in your arms.

When I was but a child, I witnessed a dog being struck by a car.  It was hurled to the side of the road and I did my best to comfort it in its last minutes.  Being with a relative when they pass is even more emotionally draining.  Was with my father and my grandmother.   To see the strength literally drained from the individual whom I will always regard as the most powerful man in my life is humbling to say the least.

[Dr Dutch]

Was he just gone? Like that?
Or did he drift away, that's what happened to the bird i could litteraly see and feel the life go away, heart slowed down and no more breathing than the head goes slowly limp.

Found him in the backyard, having some kind of seizure, then breating strangly. I picked it up and put it in the back of my car, to the vet. When I arrived there I lifted him out of the car and he literally gasped his last breath. Vet suggested to do an autopsy, but I would have to drive 150kms to have it and it was 30degrees C, so I just burried him. Was very weird because it went so quickly...

[Army of One]

Im the same with animals, I could see someone knocked over by a car in the street and not think much of it, if it was a cat or a dog Id feel it alot more.

[Stark]

When I was but a child, I witnessed a dog being struck by a car.  It was hurled to the side of the road and I did my best to comfort it in its last minutes.  Being with a relative when they pass is even more emotionally draining.  Was with my father and my grandmother.   To see the strength literally drained from the individual whom I will always regard as the most powerful man in my life is humbling to say the least.

Its weird how you just feel it that its close, I mean my wife was standing beside me and I said... nearly done, and a second later he died, you can somewhat see it.

[Dipadidu]

next time steamroller it!

it's better for the bird and for you!

[Palpatine Q]

Chris Cornell wrote this song after a bird smashed into his kitchen window and he finished it off with a brick because he didn't want it to suffer

[Dr Dutch]

I once had to turn a birds neck (or is it: ring the neck??) for it was broken allready and the bird was partially paralized , but I couldn't do it, just wimped out.
I'm such a soft guy after all...

[pluck]

 

I grew up on a farm. Life and death is a part of life.

Saw numerous still born calfs (dead at birth)
Pigs being slaughtered and butchered
Hawks snatching up chickens
Our dog fucking up chickens

Cat getting killed by a coyote...

Death is sad but it's inevitable

[Stark]

I grew up on a farm. Life and death is a part of life.

Saw numerous still born calfs (dead at birth)
Pigs being slaughtered and butchered
Hawks snatching up chickens
Our dog fucking up chickens

Cat getting killed by a coyote...

Death is sad but it's inevitable

I have seen most of these myself,
Slaughtered a wilderbeast in the zoo I worked
Saw loads and killed a lot of rats etc.

But actually having something slowly die is somewhat different, its not the - you are here now you're gone kind thing
its peacfull and a very sobering experience mixed with strangely being very very sad.

[Dr Dutch]

As a kid I was much more shocked by animals being killed than people. Must be because animals are always innocent, as are little children.

[Stark]

As a kid I was much more shocked by animals being killed than people. Must be because animals are always innocent, as are little children.

I haven't seen a lot of dead people, never seen a person actually die as in being right there, not that I want to see it, but I think over the years we have made death something obscene, something we should not talk or think about - so we have to look forever young and be young so we can pretend it ain't going to happen to us.
Were I just do it the other way around, I think a lot about death I am interested in death and so far I am not depressed or suicidal but I have my moments were I am not that scared anymore.

[Palpatine Q]

I have seen most of these myself,
Slaughtered a wilderbeast in the zoo I worked
Saw loads and killed a lot of rats etc.

But actually having something slowly die is somewhat different, its not the - you are here now you're gone kind thing
its peacfull and a very sobering experience mixed with strangely being very very sad.

exactly.....my daughter's gerbil Homey died in my hand, same exact, shook violently and tensed every muscle in it's little body and then gone.....sobering is a good word.

[Reeves]

When a loved one passes, for several moments thereafter it is as though the air itself is taken from the room.  Trust me... It gives one pause to one wonder at the sheer wonder of life itself as well as to reflect on what might be after.   

I, being atheist think there is nothing.  But I will not belittle those (i.e., true Christians) that genuinely hold fast to the hope of a resurrection with loved ones.

To do so would not be atheistic, but rather assholistic, if you will.   At once both inhuman and inhumane. 

[Tito24]

youre a good person stark. not so many people care for animals.

the thought alone of losing a loved one can bring tears in my eyes.

[Dr Dutch]

I haven't seen a lot of dead people, never seen a person actually die as in being right there, not that I want to see it, but I think over the years we have made death something obscene, something we should not talk or think about - so we have to look forever young and be young so we can pretend it ain't going to happen to us.
Were I just do it the other way around, I think a lot about death I am interested in death and so far I am not depressed or suicidal but I have my moments were I am not that scared anymore.

As a doctor (I really am one) I've seen people actually die. Usually you see it coming, there is a last spark of life and then they stop breathing. It's not like in the movies that they suddenly turn their head or close their eyes. They just become motionless. Most of the time it's not ugly or terrible at all, except when it's a child or a young healthy person...

[che]

tensed every muscle in it's little body

PIP

[Deicide]

Pretty weird experience, now you all gonna say its just a bird, but neverless I never had anything actually die in my hands.

I drove home in the morning after I went quickly to the shop, see this bird flapping on the side of the road, park the car and walk back since I'm just unable to see an animal hurt.
Pick the bird up its a blackbird, hes hurt bad I can tell either both his legs are broken or more likely his back, right than I knew there isn't much I can do since I am a qualified zookeeer I know the difference between there is hope and that's it - he wasn't even grabbing my fingers.
So I had two choices, 1) I can leave it at the side of the road 2) I can take it home or kill it quick.
So I took it home, I have no problem killing animals but I have seen birds hit a window/car full force and they come around again, so I took it home.
Coming home I can see he's getting worse, eyes closed and he is breathing real heavy, so I put it in a box with a towel inside and another on top to give him a bit of darkness.

After five minutes I checked the box and he was still alive and in pain, so I made the decision to just hold it in my hands, after a few seconds when I picked him up - he was just breathing now no movement he spasm real hard and than he slowly died.

It was weird and very sad even if it was just a bird, I never thought I feel like that, its a completely different experience to - finding something dead.
I cannot even imagine what it must feel like to have a friend or other person die in your arms.

So what? You have a hot Lithuanian slave wife, why does this other stuff matter?

[che]

youre a good person stark. not so many people care for animals.

the thought alone of losing a loved one can bring tears in my eyes.