Had you touched a dead man!?

Yes I have touched the dead bodies of my father and mother. I did not feel any thing bad about that, other than the sorrowful feeling of loosing them. However I have not touched any other dead boies so far. Actually dead bodies are very cold. The temperature of the body is because of the life, the activities of life, the running of the blood, pumping by the heart, respiration and consequent operations, digestion, purification of blood all these involves energy and that is the reason for the temperature of the body. In a dead body no such activities and not that warmth. Cold, very cold.

I haven't touched one yet. ( I hope not so soon too just like you.) Well, I happen to know someone who have touched a dead person and that is my mum. When my cousin died last march, mum actually hugged and kissed him for one last time. My cousin and mum are really close that's why mum never hesitated to do that to him. My sister was even so surprised and shock when she saw my mum do that. I don't think it's a yucky feeling at all. When you really love a person, you'll do the same I guess.:)

I find nothing new, and its not a chilling experience to anyone. Especially given the gloomy situation prevailing at place of death. After all that person has lived with us till his last breath, and to touch a dead man is not something different experience.No spirits will conquer us when we touch a dead man. This is what i feel.

yes, i had when my greatgrandfather died. that was way back 1995. i was 15 years old then... fifteen minutes after he died, my father called us and wen to see his dead body.. it was sooooooooo cold and heavy.. that was my first time to touch a dead man.. i'm a little bit scared then, but i just put into my mind that he's still mmy great grandfather.. i can't forget that experience...

My loving dad passed away many years ago. He was 80 plus. I did touch him and of course he was cold. I didn't have any errie or yucky feeling at that time. I guess it was because he was a family member. It could be different if we are to touch a stranger altogether. May those who passed on rest in peace!

Are you talking dead like they just passed away? Or dead like you're seeing them at the viewing? In general I'm ridiculously freaked out by being around dead bodies and I don't even like to go to viewings. When I go to viewings I typically try to stay as far away as I can.

However, my best friend died a few years ago and going to his viewing was one of the hardest things I ever had to deal with. When I forced myself to look at him, dead and in the casket, I did touch him. He had died of a heroin overdose which effects the body differently than had he died other ways. I remember the feeling of touching him and it was almost like touching rubber. It wasn't warm or cold. It was just rubber and very unreal and I remember thinking and wondering how he ever let himself get like that, how I could let him get like that...

It was a very emotional thing and touching him was a part of it. I never understood needing to see and/or touch the dead body of someone you loved/cared about until he passed away and I was facing his dead body for the first time.

i tell you it's not yucky anymore when this dead man was your relatives or worse your love ones..

i had and i say it was a heart tearing moment i dont wanna let go of the body..i wish they wont take them away and enbalm and if i could do a miracle i wanna keep them alive with me..

the first dead body that i had touched..hugged kiss and cried over was my daughter..i thought i could kicked the enbalmer when he took away my daughter from me..

second was my borther whom i loved so much..it took me an hour before i let go of the him..i cried, hug and kiss him and wont let go till they stop me from doin it..

its painful ever that what you could imagine..

yea i think i have done that once and that was when my grandna died and i had to toich her legs and had a picture with her,i really miss her and i felt i should touch her for the very last time before she would be burried

I held my father's hand after he died. I was not there when he was dying. I don't remember whether whether it is hot or cold. I only remember telling him to go peacefully. I will take care of the family.

I have acually touch my dead mother and grandmother. It wasnt weird at all. It was closure for me. Yes they were cold. I remember it after all these years and i was an adult when they died. It wasnt a horrible experence for me because i embrassed the moment that i will never see them again and said a silent preyer for them. I would like to say if it was someone I didnt know I think my feeling would be different.