- Being raised around Mennonites, the first thing we would do when I was a girl when somebody died was to wash the body and dress it, then lay it out. It didn’t bother me too much, as it was sort of a last loving thing to do for your loved one, or even just a neighbor. My aunt died last month, and I sat with her as her body cooled, and wished I could wash her body and straighten her out, comb her hair. They don’t let you do that up here. So, it probably wouldn’t bother me.
- Depends on how much residual energy there was. If I got bad vibes, no way. But if it was peaceful, sure.
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Don’t bodies tend to vacate their bowels upon death? That would certainly make it rather unpleasant to sleep in close proximity.
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I confess that I would feel irrationally uncomfortable. My mind would keep wandering to the event which would make me uneasy, even though I know it’s silly.
- Normally I wouldn’t mind, although if it was a famous triple homicide I might stay away because who knows what kind of weirdos might come by.
How attractive is the dead body and how long has it been dead? Just asking.
I wouldn’t care about sleeping in the same room as a dead person. I can’t think of a scenario where it would be necessary, but it wouldn’t bother me.
In the case of the triple murder, it would depend on the circumstances of the murders. If it happened because it was a high crime neighborhood, I might worry about that, but apart from that, no, I wouldn’t care.
The previous owner of our first house died in what became our bedroom. It bothered my wife, but not after the first couple of nights.
Regards,
Shodan
I know it would be irrational, but I don’t think I could do either without struggling against the creeped out factor for a really long time.
< shudder >
I would be more disturbed that the landlord felt the need to share the information with me.
i think they’re legally obligated.
1 - as long as they are not smelly, I really don’t care. One caveat, when I am migraining, my sense of smell is incredibly acute, so I also have to be not migraining.
I also have to have my own bed … or at least a comfy sofa.
2 - Why would a triple murder be any worse than a single murder? As long as the blood and gore isnt still there, and I dont have to clean it up I wouldnt care if it was Jonestown in the living room. I know that the house I used to live in that was built by my greatgrandfather had several people die there of various causes [mainly old age] over the years. Is it any different from having a beloved pet die in your arms? I have held a number of pets as they either died or were put down.
My last real estate agent said that she was. We asked about the previous owners tenant and she said it was a little old lady, but that she moved away and didn’t die in the house and that she’s required to mention that.
A couple I’m friends with bought an old house a couple of years back. A descendant of the original owners stopped by when she noticed the house had been sold and gave them a bit of history about the place. She also told them quite seriously not to dig in one corner of the yard as one of the family children had died as an infant and been buried there in the 19th century.
It wasn’t a situation that involved a death, but the first flat I moved into when I left my parents’ house had a bit of history. The previous tenant was a single mother who’d gotten into a siege situation, hanging her children of the (7th floor) balcony and threatening to drop them and so on. Some cops kicked in the door and another group rappelled down from the flat above. No-one really wanted to live there after that, but I didn’t see the big deal, once the door had been repaired.
If it smelled or otherwise was intrusive than I would not sleep in the same room as a dead body, otherwise, I can sleep damn near anywhere.
on question 1, my first thought was, there is a reason they call it a “wake”. there would be no sleeping… i would stay awake and watch over the deceased.
- it would take a huge, huge, amount of holy water.
houses in my 'hood are snapped up rather quickly. if the house has parking it is gone in a flash. this one house was up for sale for over a year, it was 3 stories, with parking and a rooftop deck.
the sticking point? it shared a wall with a funeral home.
I consider myself to be a mostly rational, non-superstitious, quite skeptical person, but I would be totally squicked by both of the situations presented.
I’d have no problem living in a house that any type of death occurred in. In fact, I nearly rented a duplex in which the previous renter had died and was not found for several days. I ended up not renting it but the death had nothing to do with it.
But my cat died late at night almost a year ago, and since he was 30 pounds he was too big to store in the freezer or fridge. We have coyotes in the area so I didn’t want to place his body outside in the cold lest he be ravaged by morning. So I put him in the coldest room of the house, which was my bedroom, until the vet’s office opened in the morning and they could take delivery of his body.
He wasn’t a stranger, and he wasn’t even human, but I slept on the couch that night. In fact, until daylight came, I was uneasy even going into my bedroom, much less sleeping in there. But I don’t know how much of that was due to the creepiness, or due to the grief.
Almost 20 years ago, I was in the hospital. The woman who shared the room with me died. It was several hours before the funeral home retrieved the body. My reaction was probably colored by the fact that I had just escaped death myself, but I was intensely creeped out knowing a dead person lay just five feet from me for several hours. And it was daytime.
So I seriously doubt I could sleep in the same room as a recently deceased person. Or cat.
No I won’t sleep in a murder room.
I wouldn’t buy the neighbor’s house that was shotgun suicide either. I don’t plan on mentioning it to the people that bought it either.
I dont believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them 
I agree that I shouldnt be afraid, and I know exactly why I am and why I shouldnt. That said, I cannot control how my body will react, so I prefer to stay far far away from such a house
Its sorta like with allergies. You know that its simply some chemical reactions in your body making you feel itchy or sneezy, but knowing that doesnt make it stop
I can’t imagine being in a sleeping mood after discovering the body of a stranger unexpectedly. But if said stranger has a good reason for being there (i.e., we’re in a morgue or it’s a mummified mountaineer on Everest, &c.) then I might be able to sleep. If I’m really tired.
I’ll gladly buy a murder house on the condition that nobody tells me which room the murder occurred in. I just don’t want to imagine the deed in situ, because it’ll be that much more vivid.
Really, I’d probably google the crime anyway, because I’m a morbid soul who doesn’t know what’s good for her.
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I’m not bothered by the thought of a dead body, but there are limits.
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The problem with the triple murder house isn’t superstition or anything like that for me. The problem would be if I knew a great deal about it and was able to imagine the scenes. If it was “There was a triple murder in this house at some point. Here are the keys!” I’d be fine. If it was “There was a triple murder and here are all the details and here are all the motives and here’s what the person hiding in the crawlspace wrote as he was dying…” then I wouldn’t be fine. I wouldn’t be frightened. I’d be upset.
Not necessarily true. Depends on what they died of. Anthrax or bird flu can still ruin your day even if the guy who gives it to you is dead. The other reason dead guys bug me is they remind me of where I’ll be all too soon. I much prefer live folks.
I refuse to walk up the stairs on a mayan pyramid. It’s not superstition; more like respect for the hapless victims who were dragged to the top and skinned alive. Knowing that streams of human blood rolled down those steps makes me more inclined to tear it down than to glorify it as a monument. I don’t want to see the roman colosseum either. There are other examples of fine stonework to appreciate.