"They died doing what they loved"

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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Snakeduck wrote:
    I spend a lot of time amongst grizzly bears because I love it. One day I might get eaten... you do the math.
    Didn't they make a movie about you? :think:
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Snakeduck wrote:
    I spend a lot of time amongst grizzly bears because I love it. One day I might get eaten... you do the math.
    Hey, just ask Timothy Treadwell!

    (oh wait...we can't)

    The "no longer suffering" line, well...it is, as Who Princess said so well, a lopsided bargain.

    One of the most difficult things I've ever experienced was losing my father. But he was in pain - both of body and mind - and his life was no longer his, what he wanted for himself. That thought, though perhaps selfishly, assauged my grief just a bit, that he was now free from that kind of hurting.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,372
    Who Princess wrote:
    Snakeduck wrote:
    I spend a lot of time amongst grizzly bears because I love it. One day I might get eaten... you do the math.
    Didn't they make a movie about you? :think:
    I think the bears took so long to eat him because they must have sensed something was wrong with him and maybe thought he was poisonous or something.
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  • Snakeduck
    Snakeduck Posts: 1,056
    Who Princess wrote:
    Snakeduck wrote:
    I spend a lot of time amongst grizzly bears because I love it. One day I might get eaten... you do the math.
    Didn't they make a movie about you? :think:


    Legends of the Fall? People mistake me for Tristin all the time, probably because I have had a few knife fights with bears. Well that and the flowing locks of blond hair...
  • Snakeduck
    Snakeduck Posts: 1,056
    Jason P wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    Snakeduck wrote:
    I spend a lot of time amongst grizzly bears because I love it. One day I might get eaten... you do the math.
    Didn't they make a movie about you? :think:
    I think the bears took so long to eat him because they must have sensed something was wrong with him and maybe thought he was poisonous or something.

    Or, because a predatory act on humans by any bear is extremely rare. More likely, the bear had something wrong with it. Not that I defend Treadwell. His heart may have been in the right place but his brain wasn't...

    Except Polar Bears... I should add. Those suckers will track and eat you without hesitation.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,086
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    Snakeduck wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    I think the bears took so long to eat him because they must have sensed something was wrong with him and maybe thought he was poisonous or something.

    Or, because a predatory act on humans by any bear is extremely rare. More likely, the bear had something wrong with it. Not that I defend Treadwell. His heart may have been in the right place but his brain wasn't...

    Except Polar Bears... I should add. Those suckers will track and eat you without hesitation.
    Moot point Snake. Your death comes at the hooves of Mountain Goats!!
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  • Snakeduck
    Snakeduck Posts: 1,056
    mickeyrat wrote:
    Moot point Snake. Your death comes at the hooves of Mountain Goats!!

    They are more blood-thirsty than bears that is for sure...
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Snakeduck wrote:
    mickeyrat wrote:
    Moot point Snake. Your death comes at the hooves of Mountain Goats!!

    They are more blood-thirsty than bears that is for sure...


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    Moment of Truth
  • Snakeduck
    Snakeduck Posts: 1,056
    BinauralJam wrote:
    Snakeduck wrote:
    mickeyrat wrote:
    Moot point Snake. Your death comes at the hooves of Mountain Goats!!

    They are more blood-thirsty than bears that is for sure...


    108.jpg

    Moment of Truth

    Love it! The goat is like, "What's all that shit you're carrying?"
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,127
    Snakeduck wrote:
    108.jpg Love it! The goat is like, "What's all that shit you're carrying?"


    :lol:
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    brianlux wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    A parachute not opening... that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine... having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go.
    But what about those "OH SHIT" moments between realizing the chute didn't open and hitting the ground?!

    (btw, I love the irony of nuts meeting a "laplander")

    Oh man, falling. Definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, NOT the way I want to go! :lol:


    freezing to death would suck massive too. ive really gotta stop reading about mountain climbing.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    catefrances wrote:
    freezing to death would suck massive too. ive really gotta stop reading about mountain climbing.
    ...or being the caretaker of creepy hotels.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,747
    In the spirit of Neil Young's great (and one of his greatest) song, "My My, Hey Hey (Into the Black/Out of the Blue)" I do think it would be better to burn out than to fade away. But the misunderstanding of that concept (at least this is what I believe) is believing you have to die young to avoid fading away. Watch Neil in the film "Journeys". Sure, Neil has slowed down a bit but does this look like a man who had faded away? I don't think so. I say, keep going, push yourself- you'll not only live longer, you'll live better and you won't fade away.

    Another take on this is this amazing poem (written in one of the most difficult forms, the villanelle) "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas:

    Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
    Because their words had forked no lightning they
    Do not go gentle into that good night.

    Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
    Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
    And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
    Do not go gentle into that good night.

    Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
    Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    And you, my father, there on the sad height,
    Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,862
    I agree, I don't want to die doing what I love at all. Talk about ruining a good time.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,862
    catefrances wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    But what about those "OH SHIT" moments between realizing the chute didn't open and hitting the ground?!

    (btw, I love the irony of nuts meeting a "laplander")

    Oh man, falling. Definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, NOT the way I want to go! :lol:


    freezing to death would suck massive too. ive really gotta stop reading about mountain climbing.
    Burning to death is my number one horror. Freezing to death? As long as I have a bottle of Crown, that seems like one of the better ways to go in my book, and since it's the exact opposite of my worst nightmare, I don't mind it. :P
    Going down in a plane is another shitty way to go IMO. I don't want to be panicking when I die!
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i've often thought about a massive heroin injection as a way of ending things here
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    chadwick wrote:
    i've often thought about a massive heroin injection as a way of ending things here


    Nice!
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    I agree, I don't want to die doing what I love at all. Talk about ruining a good time.
    ...
    Yeah, i'm with you on this. Like, if I was at a Justin Beiber concert, i would be all, 'Just kill me now... literally'.
    ...
    Which is why I avoid Justin Beiber concerts.
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