Re: Maybe not grotesque, but....
....I guess just the saddest thing.
I was a small town EMT for several years during HS and college. We once responded to a call of a suicide. The guy had run his car in his garage to kill himself. We found him against the garage door, and all I could imagine was him smoking his last cigarette watching the world go by out the window untill he dropped.
Another time a young girl called who had taken a bottle of sleeping pills, and then changed her mind about wanting to die. What a ride to the hospital! Better step it up, I kept yelling to the driver. She made it.
Another one was responding to the high school dance one night. "Girl in distress" the call said. She certainly was! She was unconsious in the girls room. She had drank a quart of whiskey, a pint of tequilla, the list went on! 15 or 16 years old. NOT a pretty picture, that ride. She made it too.
One time, we're going up to Hampton for the week. We're just about to go, I'm actually walking over to turn my FD pager off..... and a call comes in. Car full of kids trapped in a car that went into a lake. The lakes near my house, so I tell Mom I'll catch up with them later. All the kids got out safely.
OK, now it's later. I've made it to Hampton, and I'm walking down the strip with my cousins about midnight. I just got there! Anyhow, this girl stumbles out of an alley and falls to the ground. Group of people gather around and look at her. I check her, no breathing, no pulse. Start CPR. Somebody finally joins in to help me. Good! Two person CPR is much easier. Cops and ambulance show up real fast, always lots of cops up there. Never found out the rest of that story.
I think I've blocked out the most grotesque. A motorcycle accident does come to mind. Those are never good. Drownings are grotesque too, that's an awful way to go.
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.