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Alex Honnold: What risk means after dean Potter 7-Jun-2015 At 9:11:10 PM Pat
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Well I get what you mean, but usually Cancer and Dementia deaths are not unpleasant in the last few moments, in the Potter kind of way in Australia for the sufferers. For those of us observing - yes they would be.

What I meant was that for me, enjoying the surrounds and the experience would not sufficiently balance out the negatives of three seconds of horror. So for instance, I have specifically asked my family that if I ever die climbing under no circumstance say I 'died doing something I loved', because I have no love of traumatically bleeding to death or severing my spinal column. Please say the truth - something horrible went wrong.

From what Honold wrote, Dean pursued his activities in a fairly careful way. We'll never know, but perhaps his last three seconds carried some form of second thoughts or regret. Looking at your original post again Marty I can see the point you were making I think. And see that I might have initially misunderstood you. Yes I can imagine just before it went wrong he was having the same experience. I just think that sometimes we gloss over the realities of what the very last moments might have been like and how different they might be to the joy(? or whatever) was being experienced immediately before. Stay safe - live long.

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