The Will To Survive: A Disturbing Story

[hubag bohol]

Stella Maris College Rugby Team

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On October 13, 1972 the team was on its way from Montevideo, Uruguay to play a match in Santiago Chile. Fierce wind and snow hounded the flight as the plane trekked through the Andes mountains. Due to poor weather and pilot error the plane crashed atop of an unnamed mountain on the border of Chile and Argentina.

Search parties from three countries searched for 11 days in vain to find the downed flight of 45 people but were unsuccessful and all passengers were presumed dead. What followed next is one of the greatest examples of human survival ever recorded. Despite no food or heat 16 members of the team stayed on top of the mountain for over two months through the brutal winter while being forced to eat the remains of their fallen teammates before finally being rescued.

[hubag bohol]

Sa imong paminaw, sakto ba ang ilang desisyon nga kaonon ang patayng lawas sa ilang mga kauban?

[islander]

it will take me a lifetime to make a clear stand, if at all, on this moral dilemma.  yes, they had to survive and the dead among them were able to help the survivors in the most macabre way.  that is understood.  but what if the dead were our family?    

[bugsay]

it will take me a lifetime to make a clear stand, if at all, on this moral dilemma.  yes, they had to survive and the dead among them were able to help the survivors in the most macabre way.  that is understood.  but what if the dead were our family?    

what if, 'la sila namatay sa crash......gipatay kay aron kan-on.

[hubag bohol]

it will take me a lifetime to make a clear stand, if at all, on this moral dilemma.  yes, they had to survive and the dead among them were able to help the survivors in the most macabre way.  that is understood.  but what if the dead were our family?    

If I remember the story right, the survivors agreed not to eat members of the family. There was, I think, a brother and his sister who died in his arms sometime in the early part of the ordeal.

[islander]

If I remember the story right, the survivors agreed not to eat members of the family. There was, I think, a brother and his sister who died in his arms sometime in the early part of the ordeal.

so the survivors took care of their own.  too bad they didn't think of the families of those who had died who didn't have relatives from among them.

[naeempartner]

Though the hotel was a bit small, and the triple room very cramped, it seemed clean enough superficially (except perhaps the towels, which smelled awful), but then I was to discover that there was more to the hotel under the surface. On the night of Saturday 10th September, I went to bed in a perfect state of health and nothing to report in terms of dermatological problems.

When I woke up on the morning of Sunday 11th September, my body was absolutely covered with bites that appear to be consistent with bedbug or flea bites (as my dermatologist has also told me). This is most probably the source of the bites, because I was clothed with pajamas and the windows were closed entirely due to the cold (thereby excluding mosquitoes, which could not get into the covers of a bed and through the pajamas anyway).



Mahjong

[statesville]

They resorted to cannibalism for survival? that churned my stomach...
     basin ang nagpinal ila na lang sad gipatay para kaonon.

[Raquelproud boholana]

Naay movie bahin ani or documentary man dagway to. Tan awa ang Alive nga movie murag mao ni title very interesting kaayo. Daghan baya ug ing resort aning cannibalism. Ang Donner Party i google ni. Dili man daw jud helpul ang cannibalism for survival kay dili man daghan ug protein ang unod sa tawo.
Bahin aning cannibalism nga katong survivor sa plane crash gihinay hinay ra jud to nila ug pang it ang ilang mga kauban. Uban igsoon or asawa or inahan ilang gikaon.

[hubag bohol]

They resorted to cannibalism for survival? that churned my stomach...
     basin ang nagpinal ila na lang sad gipatay para kaonon.

Wa man tingali silay gitiwasan. Patay nang daan ang ilang gikaon...

[hubag bohol]

Naay movie bahin ani or documentary man dagway to. Tan awa ang Alive nga movie murag mao ni title very interesting kaayo. Daghan baya ug ing resort aning cannibalism. Ang Donner Party i google ni. Dili man daw jud helpul ang cannibalism for survival kay dili man daghan ug protein ang unod sa tawo.
Bahin aning cannibalism nga katong survivor sa plane crash gihinay hinay ra jud to nila ug pang it ang ilang mga kauban. Uban igsoon or asawa or inahan ilang gikaon.

Akong nahinumdoman nga detalye sa estorya sa Donner Party kadtong usa sa mga gikaon nga tambok nga baje. Matod pas nikaon nga survivor lami kuno ang empilya. Ang tuyo tingali mao ang calorie content sa fat nga makatabang batok sa katugnaw.

[Raquelproud boholana]

Wa man tingali silay gitiwasan. Patay nang daan ang ilang gikaon...

Wala bitaw kay nag anam anam man to sila ug pangamatay labi na tong angul sa crash. Nakatabang pud nga perting tugnawa tong ilang gicrasan kay wa madaot dajon ang lawas sa ilang kauban.Gihinay hinay nalang nila ug pang it ang unod unya nagrosaryo baya pud to sila. Wala gani to sila nag lose ug weight.
Ang Donner Party ang medyo nagpinatyanay na kay mao ra jud to ilang means of survival.

[hofelina]

dihay film ni-ani, it was a good discussion topic in religion during my college days. The survivors who had eated human flesh were given the absolution. One of the them is now a practicing doctor. This was repeated by the boat people who fled Vietnam, days stranded middle of the sea sorrounded with dead people who where eaten to survive. There was a documentary film on this from the vietnamese refugees.