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[Nick303]

This is how I read the thread "Best resorts to dine at?" and thought it was a valid question so here you go.

Where?
and
How?
maybe
Why?

This post has been edited by Nick303: 02 January 2008 - 07:53 PM

[liftmech]

What?

[Nick303]

I thought the same thing but thought it could be interesting....

Your going to die at a ski resort ________

[Lift Kid]

Nick303, on Jan 2 2008, 10:00 PM, said:

I thought the same thing but thought it could be interesting....

Your going to die at a ski resort ________

Hmm......I would want to dye by being hit by an avalanche charge..... but I would rather not die.

[Phoenix]

My former spouse's uncle was an avid skier and lived in Mammoth, California for decades. About 10 years ago, he disembarked from the Upper Gondola at Mammoth Mountain and went outside to put on his skis. When he reached down to buckle his boots, he collapsed from a massive heart attack. Though ski patrol tried to revive him, they were unsuccessful and he died on his way to the hospital.

He died doing what he loved to do...he was an avid outdoorsman. For your last statement in life to be doing something that you love to do is a great legacy. If I had the opportunity to choose how I was to die, I would not mind to have my last moments in life be doing something that I enjoy.

To me, the "where" is irrelevant if I would be doing something I enjoy.

This post has been edited by Phoenix: 02 January 2008 - 08:35 PM

[skierdude9450]

Hmm... Interesting topic. If I could chose where I would die, it would probably be in an avalanche of Highland Bowl that clears the valley of trees for fifteen years. Being hit by an avalanche charge doesn't sound like fun. That sounds like getting by a Howitzer in WWII.

[Emax]

I tried dying at Brian Head, but it didn't take.
Tool in hand, bug in blood.
I have no idea why. Guess it's not a good place for it to happen.

This is a genuinely weird thread, Nick. Did you stop taking your medication again?

[Peter]

Dying in an avalanche sounds awful! Slowly running out of air with total darkness and being unable to move. I would say hitting a tree hard would be quick and painless.

But Nick, this thread is a little out there!

[Carl]

An "older" guy, my age?, was skiing at JH with his wife and friends. They skied Rendezvous Bowl and stopped at the bottom.

The guy commented to his wife "Honey, that was the best run of my life!" He decided to take the traverse toward Thunder and she
was headed to Rendezvous Trail.

He dropped dead on the spot.

That's the way to "check out"!

Carl

[Bill]

Let me die on the lift. That way the lifties have to deal with me. :)

[KMS]

Bill, on Jan 3 2008, 10:19 AM, said:

Let me die on the lift. That way the lifties have to deal with me. :)

That happened a few years ago. An elderly woman passed away, apparently peacefully, while riding up the lift. She was sitting upright with her hands resting in her lap. When the chair approached the top and the passenger was not ready to unload, the lifty slowed the lift and called out to her to please raise the bar. When she didn't, he stopped the chair and suggested more forcefully that she needed to pay attention and prepare to unload the lift. She still didn't respond, so he bumped the chair in and stopped it on the ramp. That's when he realized she wasn't being rude, she was dead. I guess she had a heart attack. Her family said she was probably very pleased to go on a lift. She had been an avid skier since she was a child.

[skier691]

I am sure everyone has a perferred way to go... Please, just don't do it at my area. I am a ski guy, not a cadaver removal specialist. Stupid topic

[Peter]

At the end of last season, a man had a heart attack while skiing the Sunnyside run at Crystal. He collapsed, tumbled down much of the run, hit a tree and died. Apparently some skiers saw the whole thing from Rex.

[Nick303]

Yea yea I know its a stupid topic I just read a different topic wrong and thought I would throw it out there.

[vons]

A few years ago we had a man pass away on American flyer seems the lift has had two victims of satisfied run syndrome in its 22 years

[Lift Kid]

vons, on Jan 3 2008, 10:26 PM, said:

A few years ago we had a man pass away on American flyer seems the lift has had two victims of satisfied run syndrome in its 22 years

I wonder how the lift'y take that stuff!

[Emax]

Lift Kid, on Jan 4 2008, 05:31 AM, said:

I wonder how the lift'y take that stuff!

a·pos·tro·phe (?-pos?tr?-fe) noun
The superscript sign (') used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, and the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.

This post has been edited by Emax: 04 January 2008 - 05:53 AM

[floridaskier]

A few days ago there was some sort of medical emergency at the Empire Lodge at DV, they brought in a stretcher and an ambulance, but I couldn't tell what was happening. The next day at PCMR I saw this guy getting oxygen on the floor of the Snow Hut. Wonder if he came out all right.

The Canyons has already had two fatalities this season. I guess it's better to die doing something you love than something you don't like, but I don't want to check out too early for any reason

[Lift Kid]

Emax, on Jan 4 2008, 07:53 AM, said:

a·pos·tro·phe (?-pos?tr?-fe) noun
The superscript sign (') used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, and the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.

It was a typo!

[aug]

Emax, on Jan 4 2008, 06:53 AM, said:

a·pos·tro·phe (?-pos?tr?-fe) noun
The superscript sign (') used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, and the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.

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