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This guy deserves a Darwin award to be named after him. He woke up with a bat gnawing on his neck and refused to get a rabies shot. He died of rabies.
by HarHarVeryFunny 5y ago
This guy deserves a Darwin award to be named after him. He woke up with a bat gnawing on his neck and refused to get a rabies shot. He died of rabies.
- poo-yie 5y agoIt's even worse than that. The news articles said that he had a bat colony living in his house.
- mach1ne 5y agoAnd the bat that bit him was tested positive for rabies.
- choeger 5y agoOk, that's not a Darwin award. That's straightforward suicide-by-bat.
- pvaldes 5y agoI wonder if this was a case of "I don't want it" or "I can't afford it (but maybe could have some luck and don't get it)".
- elliekelly 5y agoI am curious whether/to what extent cost played a role in his decision.
- hulitu 5y agoSo just like our ancestors, he lived in a cage.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoThe patient was in their 80s. I can give a pass for "dont give a fuck" at that point
- tomjen3 5y agoSure, but dying from rabies is not fun.
- refurb 5y agoPresumably you won’t be aware of any of it. Any decent hospital will sedate a rabies patient with enough drugs won’t even know where you are. See Milwaukee protocol. It did failed to improve outcomes after subsequent testing but they basically put you in a coma which I assume they still do out of compassionate reasons.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoAfaik it only worked once by pure luck.
- Ensorceled 5y agoThere are lots of ways to die in your 80s. Pretty sure "rabies" is not high on my list.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoAre you 80? Clearly you don't have a very strong "dont give a fuck" sense
- Ensorceled 5y agoMy grandfather starved himself to death in his 90s when gangrene started to take his feet. Pretty sure I know what "don't give a fuck" looks like, and rabies is NOT it.
- droopyEyelids 5y agoAdditionally: Rabies treatment doesn't guarantee survival, it's really a crap shoot Rabies treatment can cost $22k out-of-pocket [1] [1] https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20180220/the-high-cost-of-surviving-rabies https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20180220/the-high-c... In a very USA way, this guy might have been forced to choose between death-by-rabies and leaving something for his descendants.
- supperburg 5y agoWell at that age he would have passed on his genetic material already. The point of the Darwin “award” is to praise genetically unfit people who die before reproducing, thus improving the fitness of the species and pushing evolution forward. So no, he doesn’t get a Darwin Award.
- mumblemumble 5y agoFrom the Darwin Awards' official rules: > The existence of offspring, though potentially deleterious to the gene pool, does not disqualify a nominee. . . [E]ach nominee is judged based on whether or not she has removed her own genes, without consideration to the number of offspring or, in the case of an elderly winner, the likelihood of producing more offspring. https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html
- supperburg 5y agoThat’s hilarious. I think Darwin would disagree though.
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- DaniloDias 5y agoHigh quality comment, demonstrating the level of intelligent and empathetic discussion I expect from software engineers and startup enthusiasts. I hope the moderators of this site are filled with purpose.
- maximus-decimus 5y agoHe obviously was hoping to become our vampire overlord.