Floundering like a caught fish... till the end.
Mandylion said:
Since it seems there is no way to save yourself - you'll bleed to death and or get gangreen assuming you can't call a helicopter and a tournaquit at the wrist is not going to solve anything - so I would probably wait to die (of course that assumes I had time to sit and think rationally like I did for this post).
I still want to put up a fight.
Glenn said:
Wow, that's a lot of thought that you've put into this, Jean-Francois. I guess you can afford to think about things like that if you survive the shock, unlike me.
It only takes me one minute altogether to make this decision and type it up ? For me, it isn?t such a hard decision to make. I mean, the other option is DEATH, which bears the highest opportunity cost in this case. I can always kill myself later, but if I die I cannot ?UNdie? again, can I???
Well, ever since I was a kid I was told over and over again to stay clam
especially in front of any crisis. And one of the most important things I have learned from living in the United States is ? Only the Paranoid Survives. The loss of a close friend whose body couldn?t be found in the rubbles of the World Trade Center helps strengthening this belief too.
So, whenever I am bored, I will ask myself questions like ? What am I going to do if somebody pulls a knife to my throat??, ?Should I climb out the widow if there is a fire??, ?Is it possible to kill myself first to avoid humiliation if I am caught by the terrorists?? & etc.
Off-topic:
One time a friend of mine went for an interview for the position of a stockbroker in Hong Kong. When she got to the fifth floor of the building where the interview was conducted, the room was already full of young applicants. The interviewer walked in and pointed at the widow, ?If you want this job, jump off from here!? During the whole interview he only asked one question. ?Who want to jump??
Only two or four (can't remember) persons wanted the job bad enough to jump off the building (of course, there were safety measures) and one of them was my friend. Yes, it was an American brokerage firm. And yes, my friend got the job.
jovialjon said:
One thing you could do with the hand is sew it to the top of your head so you look like one of those funky chickens with a mohican...
I think a better option is to put it on ebay ? Fresh Human Hand beaten by Exotic Jungle Snake (Caution: Eat it at your own risk).
Seems like there?re many collectors willing to pay high price for weird stuffs nowadays.