Corpses are traumatizing for anyone to have to deal with. Age really has very little to do with it. Experience... does help. Depending.
[ Kim sighs, leaning back in his chair. He has never divulged what he does to Aragaki -- not that it's a secret in the least. It just hasn't come up. And frankly, it distresses him to be confronted with someone underneath the impression that having an emotional reaction to a corpse, a corpse of a person he had known, is a sign of weakness. Kim folds his hands in his lap, neat and proper. ] I've worked with my fair share of dead bodies. In the morgue. Even working with them day in and day out, you'll still see some that... linger. It is not a sign of weakness or immaturity to have difficulties with it. It is a sign of humanity. I worried more about my colleagues who were wholly unaffected than those that were.
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Date: 2023-08-25 12:57 am (UTC)[ Kim sighs, leaning back in his chair. He has never divulged what he does to Aragaki -- not that it's a secret in the least. It just hasn't come up. And frankly, it distresses him to be confronted with someone underneath the impression that having an emotional reaction to a corpse, a corpse of a person he had known, is a sign of weakness. Kim folds his hands in his lap, neat and proper. ] I've worked with my fair share of dead bodies. In the morgue. Even working with them day in and day out, you'll still see some that... linger. It is not a sign of weakness or immaturity to have difficulties with it. It is a sign of humanity. I worried more about my colleagues who were wholly unaffected than those that were.
...your previous experiences. What were they?