By: Mat Lee
In today’s edition of MDtW, we’re going to discuss an activity that used to kill way more people than it does now. Have you ever jumped out of an airplane? I personally have not, but oddly enough, I have friends that love doing it, and also had a friend who lost his life doing it. Skydiving is more deadly than weed.
I think I would probably get up in the plane, but I would most likely have to be pushed. I don’t think my mind could convince my body to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Now if the airplane was on fire or crashing or something like that, then sure. Would you be able to do it? Have you ever done it? Have you lost someone to skydiving? Drop a note in the comments and satisfy my curiosity.
I don’t mean to get too dark here, but I feel like if I was ever to end my own life, like if I was diagnosed with something nasty and terminal, like kidney stones or something, that jumping out of a plane would be a great suicide. Much more exciting than the normal way people do that.
Lost Prairie has had a few fatalities in all the years they’ve been jumping from that beautiful site. The plane crash that killed my friend also killed everyone else on board, which included four other people. In 2010, a Colorado man died when his chute got tangled up in another guy’s chute. The other guy was able to cut and pull his reserve, but the one guy wasn’t so lucky.
I’m statistically impressed with how much safer jumping out of an airplane is than driving a car. Or I am just utterly disappointed at how unsafe people are while driving. Would you look at your laptop or desktop computer while driving? Because that’s basically what you are doing when you text and drive. Either way, they are both more deadly than weed, and that makes me a sad panda. Let’s pour out a little liquor for my homie Joel Atkinson, and blaze one for the nation.
For Stuff Stoners Like, I’m Mat Lee.
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