Peter Treby wrote: > How do you comprehend your own mortality or anyone else's. What's a fair > risk? If you take a risk and get away with it, you're a hero. If you > fail and die, you were a reckless fool. No one else decides that for you. The hero/reckless fool categorization is a media creation, and is not based on much knowledge or competent information. I would not think of Andrew as a fool or a hero, dead or alive. He was just a guy doing something he was driven to do. And, he died trying. Sometimes "stuff" happens. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 06:08:31 PDT
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