900 hikers killed in Yosemite

Bill Sornson wrote:
MattB wrote:
Corvus Corvax wrote:
On May 14, 8:34 am, "Duncan" wrote:

A good friend of mine had just spent 4 or 5 days climbing El Cap
when at the top he met those five demonstrators. They told him
when and where to watch. He said the body hitting the ground was
the worst sound he'd ever heard in his life.

Not a very effective protest.

On a somewhat morbid note, I have always been fascinated by the
euphemism of referring to a falling person as a "body" before he or
she hits the ground, as if the inevitability of the situation made
them already dead. I don't imagine the individual involved had any
such luck.

CC

In my mind a body can be alive or dead.
"She's got a hot body." is not a declaration of necrophilia.
You're using it more like corpse.

I remember, when I was a kid, wondering if someone who jumped off a building
or whatever was dead before they hit the ground. Heart attack...or shock at
the very least? I'd like to think the /body/ has some kind of autonomic
(right word?) mechanism to short-circuit the panic and pain.

Bill "Santa and Tooth Fairy Believer, Baby" S.

You should've signed it:

Sill "Schrödinger" S.


Shawn

"John Muir" wrote in message
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See: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/20...0yosemite.html

Wouldn't bicycles be safer?

No, because you would be killed by the bears for your bike and that would
allow the bears to go far outside their normal habitat. Pikinic Baskets
would be in jeopardy.