Get rid of the hand and all!

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Namaste all.

 

Here is a news story from CNN dated 2nd May 2003.

 

The guy amputated his hand himself in order to survive! This is food

for thought for us advaitins. If need be, isn't it within all of us

to even get rid of our bodies too? Isn't that what all would long to

do when they are pinned hopelessly down on their deathbeds? Who

survives then? There definitely is a survivor.

 

PranAms.

 

Madathil Nair

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NEW STORY:

 

A Colorado climber amputated his own arm Thursday, five days after

becoming pinned by a boulder, and he was hiking to safety when he was

spotted by searchers, authorities said.

 

Aron Ralston, 27, of Aspen, was in serious condition late Thursday at

a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado.

 

Ralston was climbing Saturday in Blue John Canyon, adjacent to

Canyonlands National Park in far southeastern Utah, when a 200-pound

boulder fell on him, pinning his right arm, authorities said.

 

He ran out of water on Tuesday and on Thursday morning, he decided

that his survival required drastic action.

 

Using his pocketknife, he amputated his arm below the elbow and

applied a tourniquet and administered first aid.

 

He then rigged anchors, fixed a rope and rappelled to the canyon

floor.

 

He hiked downstream and was spotted about 3 p.m. by a Utah Public

Safety Helicopter. The search for Ralston had begun the same morning,

after authorities were notified he was four days overdue reporting

for work.

 

Ralston was described by authorities as an avid outdoorsman in

exceptional physical condition. They said he was known to have

climbed 49 of Colorado's major peaks.

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