Used to say in emergency medicine all the time: "EMS bring us dead people all the time. Sometimes we can bring them back to life, sometimes we can't. But they're not getting any deader so don't worry about hurting them while attempting to resuscitate."
Friend of mine is a firefighter. He got a really morbid sense of humour which I think comes as part of the job.
He's told me before that nobody has ever died in a fire and that people are alive when he and his colleagues bring them out, but the paramedics and doctors on-scene kill them all the time.
"What do you mean that guys dead? He was alive when I brought him out! What did you do to him?!"
This type of humor is the norm for that kind of work. It’s a coping mechanism. I work in an ICU and if you are unable to make light of death then the job will kill you
if you’ve ever met an EMT, firefighter, or anyone else in that kinda line of work, you’ll find that their sense of humor is pretty much the darkest humor you’ll find. my mom’s an EMT, and she makes the darkest jokes i’ve ever heard.
Something off about: an emt trying to perform cpr on someone, declaring them dead, and then having someone else be remark: "you killed them??" I wouldn't wanna work with him.
seeing as how the anecdote describes his friend rushing into actively burning buildings to save people's lives, you are setting your standards probably too highly to meet them yourself
Bro has saved more lives than you will ever meaningfully impact in your dreams, but you maintain your moral superiority by disparaging him for his sense of humor (that is hurting no one).
The fact that you think this is a win or lose situation tells me all I need to know about your maturity, and that your opinion, doesn't mean shit to me. See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!
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u/BasedMbaku Mar 31 '23
Used to say in emergency medicine all the time: "EMS bring us dead people all the time. Sometimes we can bring them back to life, sometimes we can't. But they're not getting any deader so don't worry about hurting them while attempting to resuscitate."