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I'll recognize when my time is coming and be able to just wander off into the woods or something and die that way, with my body left where it drops. Please don
by protomyth 8y ago
I'll recognize when my time is coming and be able to just wander off into the woods or something and die that way, with my body left where it drops.
Please don't do that. It sucks seriously for the people who have to go find you when the missing person report is filed, and it really, really sucks for the "doesn't know what is going on" person who finds your body. Predators are not exactly 100% effective.
- philwelch 8y agoHikers disappear all the time and it's rare for bodies to be found when no one is specifically looking for them. In the wilderness, unless it's somewhere like on Mount Everest where bodies are naturally preserved by freezing, corpses tend to disappear pretty quickly. Predators are not 100% effective, but scavengers are pretty close, especially because there's so damned many of them ranging from insects to worms to birds and mammals.
- protomyth 8y agoRare is not the same as won’t. Save some folks some potential trauma.
- philwelch 8y agoFair point. Conversely, if you want to fake your own death, disappearing in the wilderness ("hiking accident") is one of the most reliable and plausible cover stories. People who disappear at sea wash up on shore a hell of a lot more often than people who disappear in the wilderness are ever seen.