On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:57:24 -0500, GM wrote:

wrote:
Hypothermia while fishing isn't "an accident," it is the result
of willingly-made poor choice(s), much like the poor ******* who killed
himself and damned near killed his family recently (in Oregon).


That's not fair unless you equate human error to poor choice. After
missing his turn James Kim accidentally drove up a road that is usually
closed in winter. I say accidentally because it has since emerged that
vandals cut the chains to the gates. And after 9 days of sitting in the
wilderness with your gas gone, tires burned, an infant and child
suckling from their mother, I'd offer that most of us would have made
that attempt to walk out for help. Had he survived long enough to go
one more mile there was food and shelter to last them the whole winter.
Very sad.

It is very sad. But anyone who makes the choice to take a route they
are uncertain about, in those conditions, when other much safer routes
are readily available has made a poor choice, and when they choose to do
it with an infant and a small child, it's another poor choice. It
doesn't make he or he and his wife wrong or "guilty" of anything, but it
was still a poor choice.

TC,
R