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James Nicoll  
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 More options Feb 22 2003, 5:18 pm
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From: jdnic...@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Date: 22 Feb 2003 17:18:37 -0500
Local: Sat, Feb 22 2003 5:18 pm
Subject: Re: Haunted by passage describing space shuttle crash from Niven's "Inferno"
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In article <b38s93$1jej6...@ID-7529.news.dfncis.de>,
Karl M Syring  <syr...@email.com> wrote:
>Robert Carnegie wrote on Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:00:28 +0000:
>> In article <Xns932A215DE245AjaNOSPAMschrumpfy...@24.48.
>> 107.54>, Jamie Schrumpf <jaNOSPAMschru...@yahoo.com>
>> writes

>>>Thanks for posting.  I only hope that it might have been as painless and
>>>sudden as that.  NASA is indicating that they might have had as much as
>>>20 seconds to realize what was happening, which is more than I hope to
>>>ever have in such a situation.

>> Don't dwell on it.  You could get trapped in a crashed burning
>> automobile.  There are so many horrid ways to die, and each of us
>> is going to die some way.  What matters is living well.  A good life
>> is your responsibility.  Your death isn't.  Usually it doesn't even
>> take too long, so why rehearse it mentally?  Your friends won't
>> congratulate you afterwards on how well you did it.  There's no
>> need to practise.

>The human brain takes care of the problem automatically. You
>do not feel anything special while you think "Now it time for
>the coffin".  (Yes, it feels like it is minutes, when it only
>takes seconds in real time).  The  shock comes afterwards,
>if you are happy enough to survive.

        I find this varies considerably from near-death experience
to near-death experience. For example, having a wandering loonie
break down the door of my game store to look for women was so funny
the entire concussion and pools of blood thing was a minor footnote.
Being sucked out into the Atlantic by an undertow was deeply irritating.
Having a snowback collapse on me was alarming because of the claustro-
phobia issue. The car wreck was over almost before I had time to realise
what was happening.
--
        "Repress the urge to sprout wings or self-ignite!...This man's an
Episcopalian!...They have definite views."

                                                Pibgorn Oct 31/02


 
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