I was called in to observe an autopsy and it was a murder case of a jeeta, who was shot multiple times by her jeet husband. I've seen dead bodies many times before (and other unsavory hospital things such as blood and accidents), but this is the first time that it really traumatized me. I went into shock for about a day, I came home and was trembling in the shower.
He had shot her multiple times, in the abdomen, chest, and head. We had to try and count the amount of bullets and whether they exited the body, and to check her injuries and organs, to figure out what specifically killed her. Her clothes and wound bandages were pasted to multiple spots on the body by blood and every time we had to try to remove a bandage/cloth, it'd shake the corpse a bit. Well, because he had shot her in the face, her brains kept leaking out of her nose and ear. Every slight movement would cause a slurry of her brains/blood/CSF to rush down. Bullets to the head tend to shatter the skull, causing this sort of stuff to happen. There were a couple of other things about her body that are hard to describe but they all came together to create the most horrifying end result. I've never seen someone look so broken. The wounds, the fractures, the leaking, the decomposition, the smell, it was all a lot.
Admittedly, the worst part was that I saw this right after watching Codex Pajeet 3. As I looked at her, and smelled the awful stench of rot, I kept thinking about how the Indians fish bodies like this out of the Ganges WEEKS after the time of death, or how they rape corpses like these. This lady was so rotten and decomposed despite being put in cold storage, but the bodies in the Ganges aren't even given that level of preservation. They are completely waterlogged and floating around in an extremely hot, humid, climate. So every time we moved her and the stench wafted up and her brains flooded out, I'd have these stupid intrusive flashbacks of Pajeet 3 and think about Indians eating her body or raping her. If a fresh body is so unbearably horrifying, I can't even imagine what the Ganges spits up. And they eat them RAW.
Anyway, if you're going to murder someone or kill yourself, don't shoot in the head, thanks. The people who have to deal with the body afterwards are human too, don't give us lifelong scars like this. I didn't get the chance to see the police or hospital report, so I don't know too many details but from what I heard while standing there, apparently the husband shot her and then ran off back to India. So the autopsy is part of a criminal investigation effort to try and stick some charges against him I guess. I don't know why I didn't read the report right then and there. I had the chance to, but I was too out of it to really focus. Rats.