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Actually, I have no idea what I'd do in an emergency situation...I have never been tested like that. I like to think if I was in a lifeboat or something that I'd be generous and selfless. But I think that we all find courage (or fail to) in ways that end up being surprising even to us ourselves.
TGIF? Oh yeah! Here it's Saturday morning already. Only 7 1/2 weeks to go and I'm outta here!! Heehee
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Whenever we hear of an incident like this, it's only natural that it causes us to ponder what we would do if ever confronted by such a no-win situation (shades of "Kobiyashi-Maru again!). It's probably safe to say that right now a lot of us (me included!) feel totally incapable of doing such a thing (but still wonder what we would actually end up doing should the situation ever arise. I wonder if Mr. Ralston ever thought himself capable of such a thing, and then found out that he was.
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Hmm I dunno what to think about that. A large part of me wants to smack him upside the head for climbing alone. The other part of me wonders how incredibly tedious and painful it had to be to cut his own arm off. Then again how out of his mind was he while he did it? did he realize what he was doing? Hopefully I will never be in a situation like thta!
peace and trees
~anDY
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Maybe a stupid question, but what about blood loss? I would imagine, that if you cut your arm of, it would bleed quite a lot?
Anyway, as to the real point of the post, what us humans are capable of in danger, it is truly amazing. But I think it is atleast somewhat a bad thing that we don't get any experience on such things. Not in whether we'd cut our arms off, but like fire drills. Here, in 13 years of school I've been in two firedrills, the first one in senior high, were it was announced first time about a week before that there'd be a firedrill on that day at this time. And then when the drill actually was, people just packed their stuff and lazily walked out etc. And afterwards there was talk that some teacher(s) had kept their classes in "because it was just a drill". I don't know if that was actually true, but I hope it wasn't. But the point is, I'd like to be in a firedrill of which I wouldn't know before hand, just to know how I'd react. Since a drill like the one in my high school isn't very usefull.
The second drill was at uni and a bit better, but not much. Again everyone knew it was coming, and for some reason they didn't use the fire alarms (they have to have them, right? I mean in a real situation, they can't count on people going room to room saying there's a fire, right?), but there was fake smoke and all, so it was kinda cool  (which is proapbly the wrong attitude on my part...)
OK, I think that's enough of me rambling on this subject... Everyone have a nice day
Setras
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
-Master Li in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
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I reread the article and he said that he used his shirt to make a tourniquet and his bike shorts to absorb the blood. It's just an awesome story. Lesson to be learned: Never hike alone!
I was playing with my friends out in our fort in the swamp years back and Kerry got bitten by a rattler. At first we panicked and ran amuck. Someone said "Suck the poison out" We all know, since AIDS, that we don't do that. He was gonna run back to my house. Again, wrong move. Would just pump it faster to the heart. I ran, he stayed still. Paramedics came, he was fine. Had to have the anti venom shots in his stomach..gross!!
I guess, in an emergency, think and then do what you have to.
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