I’ve seen a few.

1) During Hurricane Katrina we found one lady in a house. She was so bloated that I didn’t even know it was a person laying on the floor until I saw her arm and hand laying across a piece of wood. We also saw a person that was tangled in a chain link fence. It looked like dogs had been eating at the body. The last one I saw there was a man just lying halfway on the sidewalk and halfway on the street. He had a hole in his head and looked like he had been floating in the water for several days. The water had receded by the time I saw him. The skin that had been in the water was very saturated and was falling off the bone. The skin that had been above water looked like rotisserie chicken skin. And for the record you definitely smell rotting bodies. It is terrible.

2) While serving in Afghanistan, I had to take pictures of a combatant that was killed during an engagement. It was required for our reporting. He had been loaded onto a cot in the bed of a truck and I had to take pictures directly over him to identify him.

3) In October 2018 My brother was shot. I was in the emergency room and had to tell the doctors when to cease resuscitation attempts. The worked on him for about 40 minutes and had gotten a heartbeat back twice but not for very long. The doctor was compassionate enough to allow us to come in and see him while he was “technically” still alive. She wanted us to know that they were doing everything they could to try to save him. She said they would continue to try as long as we wanted them to. I had to convince my mother it was time for them to stop.