peregrinerose 0 #76 February 7, 2008 QuoteI would suggest you come to terms with the accident you were involved with, rather than try to prevent them from happening. Are you serious with this? Isn't it human nature to want to make the world a better place, to be fully aware that 'death happens' and it is normal, but try to prevent completely senseless and unnecessary situations like the accident described from happening? After seeing a double fatality (skydiving), the first thing I wanted to do after helping my friends get through it was to try to keep that kind of preventable event from happening again. It's part of why I became an AFF instructor... to make this sport a safer place, and try to keep jumpers from killing each other. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LongWayToFall 0 #77 February 9, 2008 *quote And sometimes people get uncomfortable reminders of the likely impact of their demise, and don't like that. Most of us won't be around after we're dead, so it's OK with us what happens. But it's probably not a bad idea to think of the consequences to people we care about, and those who care about us. Not that it controls what we do, but it's just as real as anything. Wendy W. *quote Hahaha, very true. Only when we admit to ourselves that we are being careless, should we feel ashamed for the sake of the ones who love us. To die while doing something you love, or something that is noble, is a great death. From the perspective of the loving bystander, nothing should be better at easing pain. *Edited to insert quote Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LongWayToFall 0 #78 February 9, 2008 QuoteQuoteI would suggest you come to terms with the accident you were involved with, rather than try to prevent them from happening. Are you serious with this? Isn't it human nature to want to make the world a better place, to be fully aware that 'death happens' and it is normal, but try to prevent completely senseless and unnecessary situations like the accident described from happening? After seeing a double fatality (skydiving), the first thing I wanted to do after helping my friends get through it was to try to keep that kind of preventable event from happening again. It's part of why I became an AFF instructor... to make this sport a safer place, and try to keep jumpers from killing each other. It all depends on what you see as an acceptable risk, for the poster describing the accident, not wearing a helmet is an unacceptable risk. I disagree, and so did the person who died on the hood of his car. Every single skydiving death is preventable, all you have to do is convince everyone who participates to no longer do it. The double fatality you saw, it must have been because of a lack of awareness, or lack of ep currency, or something. The people who died deemed the jump they made to be within the realm of acceptable risk, which you and most people disagree with, for good reason. I would agree with you that it is unnecessary, but do not agree that it was senseless. To the people involved, the jump and risks made sense. So, the problem is with the jumper's interpretation of the riskiness of the jump, and the strength of the skills and education that the jumper needed to deal with the risk. I'm glad that you became an AFFI, I'm sure you will be resolute in your mission to teach students the information they will need. But when you do so, make sure that they are the ones who ultimately prevent their own death, rather then you preventing it for them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
