1000 Ways to Die (2008–2012): Season 1, Episode 10 - Cure for the Common Death - full transcript
1000 Ways to Die looks at the following cases: "#77 Red, White and Blew" a man accidentally shoots himself in the face with a homemade firecracker on the fourth of July, "#756 Bank Ruptured" a man with pica disorder dies when he eats too many metal objects, "#66 Guitar Zeros" two heavy metal fans in China fall out of a window while head banging, "#196 Radium Girls" a woman dies of cancer after painting herself with glow-in-the-dark radium paint, "#638 Oz Holed" two Ozzy Osborn fans die after trying to snort fire ants, and "#710 Tanked Girl" a deep sea diver dies when someone accidentally opens a decompression chamber. It also looks at the case of a skydiver who survived a mid-air collision with another skydiver.
If you only had a half an
hour left to live, how should
you spend it?
Aah!
By Watching this episode of
1,000 ways to die?
Duh,
We've got a good ol' boy who
doesn't use his head...
he loses it,
Aah!
a couple of chinese
headbangers,
Two ozzy fans with a nose for
stupidity,
Dude!
And a deep-Sea diver who came
up for air...
Way too fast,
Death... It's a disease,
And we have the cure...
1,000 ways to die,
Death is everywhere,
Most of us try to avoid it,
others can't get out of its way,
Every day we fight a new war
against germs, toxins, injury,
illness, and catastrophe,
There's a lot of ways to wind up
dead,
The fact that we survive at all
is a Miracle,
Because every day we live, we
face 1,000 ways to die,
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Happy birthday, America,
All: Yeah,
It's the fourth of july,
Now, hurry up and cook me a
hot dog,
all across the country,
citizens are celebrating their
nation's birthday the best way
they know how,
Yeah?
Watch this, old Bernie got a
trick for ya,
...by getting hammered,
Shut up,
Shut up,
The beer hammer dropped on
Bernie and his buddies long
before the sun went down,
Whoa!
With these knuckleheads,
stupid is a vocation,
Bernie is about to show why,
I got a fourth of july for
ya,
Bernie has been planning the
mother of all firecrackers for
weeks,
Oh, boy,
a homemade fireworks
launcher, and a crudely made
bomb,
Look what ol' Bernie's got
for y'all,
Whoo...
whoo-Hoo-Hoo...
Oh...
homemade firecrackers!
Whoo!
Bernie Had combined ENOUGH
Cherry bombs to equal the
explosive power of a stick of
dynamite,
He clearly was not aware of the
reason why there's a federal law
banning homemade Bombs since
1966,
Aah!
That firework probably acted
as a very strong, very forceful
projectile, almost like a small
cannonball taken in at a close
range,
So if you can imagine a small
cannonball hitting you in the
face at greater than 300 miles
per hour, that can cause some
pretty significant damage,
Bernie!
Hey, Bernie!
Besides Being severely
burned, Bernie's face shattered
from the impact, and his brain
Rattled inside his cranium,
causing fatal hemorrhaging,
Hey, Bernie,
Hey, Bernie!
Every fourth of july,
fireworks accidents fill
emergency rooms around the
country,
Bernie managed to skip that
part, and went straight to the
morgue,
Of all the stories that have
passed through the 1,000 ways to
dieresearch department, this
one wins the medal of weirdness,
Pierre, a 32-year-Old frenchman,
has something called pica
syndrome, a very bizarre eating
disorder,
Pica syndrome is a disorder
in Which someone craves or eats
non-Food items, such as soil,
dirt, clay, lead, paint, glass,
you name it,
For reasons unknown, Pierre's
favorite snack was money,
Metal coins,
His brother tried to stop him,
but Pierre was resourceful,
He would scour the house for any
loose change, and scarf it down,
They do not know how to
distinguish between food and
non-Food items, and what's
readily available are metal
items,
Coins, or bracelets, or
necklaces, or something of the
sort,
even the dog wasn't safe,
Oh, ahh...
over several weeks, the pain
builds in Pierre's stomach to
the point where he's forced to
go to the hospital,
there's catastrophic damage
to Pierre's digestive system,
The metal could not be passed
through the intestines,
The weight built up until the
stomach was forced against the
base of his pelvis,
Doctors at the hospital
performed emergency surgery,
But it was too late,
They discovered the metal
objects in Pierre's stomach had
begun RIPPING open large veins
and arteries,
Eventually, his entire blood
supply drained out into his
abdomen,
Basically, the stomach had to
be surgically removed from this
man's body, and before they were
able to either create a New
stomach or heal him, he passed
away in the hospital,
Pica syndrome affects around
200,000 people in the United
States,
Once it starts, it's difficult
to cure,
So far, the only way to stop it
permanently is death,
Next up...
Two chinese metalheads go off
the deep end,
Aah!
And...
is it kind of sexy?
Historical babes light up the
night,
♪ ♪
in today's world, many
speak the universal language of
rock music,
Beijing youths Lee and feng were
no exception,
I think the young people in
China were attracted to heavy
metal music, uh, for many of the
same reasons as anywhere,
It's the... the power of the
music, the energy of it, you
know, and, uh, the culture,
By day they lived lives of
quiet desperation, working in a
factory, making cheap plastic
toys for export to the west,
But at night, heavy metal was
their Muse, and their small,
seven-By-Seven concrete
apartment became a 60,000-Seat
stadium,
And every night, they brought
the house down,
Aah!
Each Axl Rose scream, every
Pete townshend classic windmill
move, brought them closer and
closer to rock and roll nirvana,
Waah!
In that moment, for that
person, there is no logical
mind,
It's just all emotion and
energy,
And I think these two... they
probably were not thinking very
logically,
One night, after banging
every groupie on their magic
bus, after smashing Their air
guitars into pieces, there was
only one thing left...
the encore,
Aah!
whether a sacrifice to the
gods of rock, or just catching
his knockoff nike on the edge of
the bed, Lee took his last stage
dive out the sixth-Story window,
feng can't bear the thought of
breaking up the band,
He gives one last chinese
warlord scream...
and follows his rock and roll
brother out the window,
Aah!
I think whatever band that
they were listening to should
dedicate the next album to them,
Confucius once said, "music
produces a pleasure which human
nature can't do without,"
Unfortunately, China will have
to do without Lee and feng,
In the 1920s, women were often
hired to perform tasks DEEMED
TOO delicate or menial for men,
That's how Wendy got hired onto
an all-Female work crew at
radium corporation, a new jersey
company that made military
watches and clocks,
Wendy and her coworkers were
given the job of painting the
numerals on watch faces,
They used a new kind of paint
called "Undark,"
The glow-in-the-Dark fluid
that they were using to paint
the faces of the watch... The
reason that it glows is because
it's radioactive, and it's a
compound called radium,
What causes problems... And for
this woman, was that she
probably ingested it,
This kind of detail work was
exacting,
To keep the tip of their
paintbrushes pointed, the ladies
were taught to wipe excess paint
off on their lips,
The radium girls discovered
undark had a hidden benefit,
Lips, ladies, lips,
They could apply it to each
other and literally make
themselves radiate,
Once it's in the body, it
mimics calcium, and so your body
incorporates it into bone, and
so a lot of these women ended up
getting bone cancer,
But it would also cause damage
anywhere that it came in
contact,
If they were ingesting it,
it would cause damage in the
stomach and the intestines, the
throat, the tongue, mouth...
Wendy thought it would be fun
to use her new look to light up
her sex life,
Uh-Huh,
Isn't it kind of sexy?
Why don't you get over here,
you little glow worm,
numerous times, Wendy and her
husband played Peek-a-boo with
the magic paint,
But before long, they realized
that something about this
cutting-Edge technology was
making Wendy bleed in the most
bizarre places,
Radiation causes dna damage,
It'll cause mutations, and
that's why when the radium is
incorporated into bone, it has a
long time to sit there and
damage the soft tissue layer
inside the bone, and that can
lead to cancer... To bone cancer,
It turns out the company knew
all along about the harmful
effects of radium, yet they
allowed the girls to ingest it
daily,
Wendy was one of the first to
die,
But six of her colleagues banded
together in the first successful
worker's rights lawsuit,
Overcoming years of denial and
foul play, the radium girls led
to higher safety standards
across America,
Coming up...
a sexy scuba diver can't take
the pressure,
and, snorting fire ants...
that's gotta hurt,
Aah!
Aah!
This next story is a warning
to all who worship false gods,
It can be extremely hazardous to
your health,
Taylor and Conrad's deity?
Ozzy osbourne,
Oz, man,
Ozzy,
To say they are ozzy fans
does a huge disservice to their
complete obsession with the
aging rocker,
Oz!
They live...
ozzy,
They breathe, they eat,
Oz burgers!
Oz burgers!
'cause they're, like, baked
like oz,
Their commitment to ozzy
knows no bounds,
I love oz So much,
I'd do ozzy,
But not, like, in a gay way,
You know, just, like...
I would do him in a gay way,
Yeah, that's cool,
Both: One, two, oz!
Today's the big day,
Ozzfest is in town,
And Taylor has a special treat
for his friend,
Guess what it is,
Guess what it is,
I know, I know, right,
Oz-Cream,
Rock and roll legend has it
that ozzy and Nikki sixx once
snorted a line of ants to show
just how hardcore they were,
It's ants, man!
Fire ants, man,
The decision to snort
ants... From all the things you
could enact from ozzy osbourne...
This probably was not the best
thing to go for, to begin with,
It would be almost a punishment
if there wasn't any social
darwinism involved, and there
wasn't some kind of a
consequence involved,
Oh, dude,
Dude?
Nikki Sixx?
Yeah, Nikki sixx, ozzy, ozzy,
yeah!
Dude,
Taylor and Conrad wanna be
hardcore too,
A couple of lines of fire ants
should do the trick,
Oh!
No, I'm gonna take one, I'm
gonna take it... Here we go,
Oh!
Dude,
As soon as you snort up the
fire ants into your nose, the
first thing they'll do is bite,
Ow!
And immediately upon biting,
they sting,
They'll inject as much venom as
they can,
They are very, very pissed off,
And rightly so,
God, what is that?
Aah!
That will cause intense pain,
hence the headbanging,
Lots of drooling, lots of
screaming, wrenching of the
eyes, trying to clear the nose
out,
You gotta have very long things
to get the ants out of your
nose, and that's just not gonna
happen,
Then the swelling starts,
That'll start closing up the
nose,
You can't breathe,
The trachea starts to close up,
Suffocation follows,
Aah!
Aah!
Stupid bastards,
A couple hundred fire ants won't
necessarily kill you, but if you
inhale them into your nasal
cavity and down your throat, you
can't breathe, you die,
A couple of big jerks,
Ozz-Holes,
stay, stay,
This shapely redhead looks
like she's ready for her next
tanning session,
But looks can be deceiving,
Sandy is a deep sea diver,
A few hours ago, she narrowly
escaped death after her air
tanks failed at a depth of 350
feet,
She had to make an emergency
swim to the surface,
As any diver knows, this could
bring on a fatal attack of the
bends,
When we go down underwater,
we're absorbing more nitrogen
into our bodies,
The air that we're breathing
here, just in the atmosphere, is
about 20% oxygen, about 80%
nitrogen,
So it would be like shaking up a
soda bottle and trying to open
it up very quickly if you come
up to the surface really fast,
Now she's in a decompression
chamber, waiting it out while
the deadly nitrogen Bubbles
slowly dissolve back into her
bloodstream,
If you're down at, say, 100
feet, and you come up nice and
slow, the gas is gonna be slowly
expelled from the... the blood
through the lungs, and you can
exhale it out,
It's going to be hours before
she can exit the chamber,
But she's lucky to be alive, and
she knows it,
She'll take boredom over death
any day,
Unfortunately, the Grim reaper
had other plans for this sexy
scuba goddess,
A maintenance worker at the
scuba center accidentally opens
the Hatch to the decompression
chamber,
No!
In a nanosecond, Sandy goes
from sexy...
to splattered,
All over the chamber,
If, uh, you were to go from
seven atmospheres to one
atmosphere in the blink of an
eye, it's pretty much a done
deal,
It's... It's over,
Up next, an unlucky skydiver
takes a really bad fall,
Can you hear me?
Did you ever have the urge to
try skydiving?
If so, you better not watch this
story,
Chris Colwell was a veteran
skydive teacher making a routine
jump, videotaping one of his
students,
It was different than a
regular routine day,
Uh, it was more a little bit fun
for me because it was... I hadn't
been jumping in a while,
I was also trying to give him
some skills... Some extra skills,
uh, to help him,
2,000 feet into the jump,
Chris sees his student using the
wrong posture, slicing through
the air, down and away from
Chris,
Chris goes into a power dive to
catch up, quickly reaching 165
miles per hour,
But the student put his arms out
to slow down at the worst
moment,
Chris's neck snapped upon
impact,
Actual collision happened
very fast,
I- I realized I was still falling
to the earth, and I started to
have some thoughts of my life
ending and I was visualizing my
wife at the time, and friends
and good times that I had, and
at one point I just sort of let
go,
And I could see the green of the
earth coming up to my side,
I pretty much accepted I was
dying and I let go at that
point, and abruptly my parachute
opened up, and it was very
unexpected, but it opened up
properly,
Chris, can you hear me?
Chris,
Chris's body will never be
the same,
Help me,
Help m...
Okay,
Be still, we've got help on
the way,
Please help me,
But he's alive,
The accident took away his body,
but it revealed that Chris had
the mental strength to embrace a
new lease on life,
I tend to spend most of my
life now focusing on Helping
others live their lives versus
not living my life,
And that's basically
where... where I'm at and what
I've learned from my life now,
is that, uh, life doesn't end
because you lose a part of your
body,
hour left to live, how should
you spend it?
Aah!
By Watching this episode of
1,000 ways to die?
Duh,
We've got a good ol' boy who
doesn't use his head...
he loses it,
Aah!
a couple of chinese
headbangers,
Two ozzy fans with a nose for
stupidity,
Dude!
And a deep-Sea diver who came
up for air...
Way too fast,
Death... It's a disease,
And we have the cure...
1,000 ways to die,
Death is everywhere,
Most of us try to avoid it,
others can't get out of its way,
Every day we fight a new war
against germs, toxins, injury,
illness, and catastrophe,
There's a lot of ways to wind up
dead,
The fact that we survive at all
is a Miracle,
Because every day we live, we
face 1,000 ways to die,
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Happy birthday, America,
All: Yeah,
It's the fourth of july,
Now, hurry up and cook me a
hot dog,
all across the country,
citizens are celebrating their
nation's birthday the best way
they know how,
Yeah?
Watch this, old Bernie got a
trick for ya,
...by getting hammered,
Shut up,
Shut up,
The beer hammer dropped on
Bernie and his buddies long
before the sun went down,
Whoa!
With these knuckleheads,
stupid is a vocation,
Bernie is about to show why,
I got a fourth of july for
ya,
Bernie has been planning the
mother of all firecrackers for
weeks,
Oh, boy,
a homemade fireworks
launcher, and a crudely made
bomb,
Look what ol' Bernie's got
for y'all,
Whoo...
whoo-Hoo-Hoo...
Oh...
homemade firecrackers!
Whoo!
Bernie Had combined ENOUGH
Cherry bombs to equal the
explosive power of a stick of
dynamite,
He clearly was not aware of the
reason why there's a federal law
banning homemade Bombs since
1966,
Aah!
That firework probably acted
as a very strong, very forceful
projectile, almost like a small
cannonball taken in at a close
range,
So if you can imagine a small
cannonball hitting you in the
face at greater than 300 miles
per hour, that can cause some
pretty significant damage,
Bernie!
Hey, Bernie!
Besides Being severely
burned, Bernie's face shattered
from the impact, and his brain
Rattled inside his cranium,
causing fatal hemorrhaging,
Hey, Bernie,
Hey, Bernie!
Every fourth of july,
fireworks accidents fill
emergency rooms around the
country,
Bernie managed to skip that
part, and went straight to the
morgue,
Of all the stories that have
passed through the 1,000 ways to
dieresearch department, this
one wins the medal of weirdness,
Pierre, a 32-year-Old frenchman,
has something called pica
syndrome, a very bizarre eating
disorder,
Pica syndrome is a disorder
in Which someone craves or eats
non-Food items, such as soil,
dirt, clay, lead, paint, glass,
you name it,
For reasons unknown, Pierre's
favorite snack was money,
Metal coins,
His brother tried to stop him,
but Pierre was resourceful,
He would scour the house for any
loose change, and scarf it down,
They do not know how to
distinguish between food and
non-Food items, and what's
readily available are metal
items,
Coins, or bracelets, or
necklaces, or something of the
sort,
even the dog wasn't safe,
Oh, ahh...
over several weeks, the pain
builds in Pierre's stomach to
the point where he's forced to
go to the hospital,
there's catastrophic damage
to Pierre's digestive system,
The metal could not be passed
through the intestines,
The weight built up until the
stomach was forced against the
base of his pelvis,
Doctors at the hospital
performed emergency surgery,
But it was too late,
They discovered the metal
objects in Pierre's stomach had
begun RIPPING open large veins
and arteries,
Eventually, his entire blood
supply drained out into his
abdomen,
Basically, the stomach had to
be surgically removed from this
man's body, and before they were
able to either create a New
stomach or heal him, he passed
away in the hospital,
Pica syndrome affects around
200,000 people in the United
States,
Once it starts, it's difficult
to cure,
So far, the only way to stop it
permanently is death,
Next up...
Two chinese metalheads go off
the deep end,
Aah!
And...
is it kind of sexy?
Historical babes light up the
night,
♪ ♪
in today's world, many
speak the universal language of
rock music,
Beijing youths Lee and feng were
no exception,
I think the young people in
China were attracted to heavy
metal music, uh, for many of the
same reasons as anywhere,
It's the... the power of the
music, the energy of it, you
know, and, uh, the culture,
By day they lived lives of
quiet desperation, working in a
factory, making cheap plastic
toys for export to the west,
But at night, heavy metal was
their Muse, and their small,
seven-By-Seven concrete
apartment became a 60,000-Seat
stadium,
And every night, they brought
the house down,
Aah!
Each Axl Rose scream, every
Pete townshend classic windmill
move, brought them closer and
closer to rock and roll nirvana,
Waah!
In that moment, for that
person, there is no logical
mind,
It's just all emotion and
energy,
And I think these two... they
probably were not thinking very
logically,
One night, after banging
every groupie on their magic
bus, after smashing Their air
guitars into pieces, there was
only one thing left...
the encore,
Aah!
whether a sacrifice to the
gods of rock, or just catching
his knockoff nike on the edge of
the bed, Lee took his last stage
dive out the sixth-Story window,
feng can't bear the thought of
breaking up the band,
He gives one last chinese
warlord scream...
and follows his rock and roll
brother out the window,
Aah!
I think whatever band that
they were listening to should
dedicate the next album to them,
Confucius once said, "music
produces a pleasure which human
nature can't do without,"
Unfortunately, China will have
to do without Lee and feng,
In the 1920s, women were often
hired to perform tasks DEEMED
TOO delicate or menial for men,
That's how Wendy got hired onto
an all-Female work crew at
radium corporation, a new jersey
company that made military
watches and clocks,
Wendy and her coworkers were
given the job of painting the
numerals on watch faces,
They used a new kind of paint
called "Undark,"
The glow-in-the-Dark fluid
that they were using to paint
the faces of the watch... The
reason that it glows is because
it's radioactive, and it's a
compound called radium,
What causes problems... And for
this woman, was that she
probably ingested it,
This kind of detail work was
exacting,
To keep the tip of their
paintbrushes pointed, the ladies
were taught to wipe excess paint
off on their lips,
The radium girls discovered
undark had a hidden benefit,
Lips, ladies, lips,
They could apply it to each
other and literally make
themselves radiate,
Once it's in the body, it
mimics calcium, and so your body
incorporates it into bone, and
so a lot of these women ended up
getting bone cancer,
But it would also cause damage
anywhere that it came in
contact,
If they were ingesting it,
it would cause damage in the
stomach and the intestines, the
throat, the tongue, mouth...
Wendy thought it would be fun
to use her new look to light up
her sex life,
Uh-Huh,
Isn't it kind of sexy?
Why don't you get over here,
you little glow worm,
numerous times, Wendy and her
husband played Peek-a-boo with
the magic paint,
But before long, they realized
that something about this
cutting-Edge technology was
making Wendy bleed in the most
bizarre places,
Radiation causes dna damage,
It'll cause mutations, and
that's why when the radium is
incorporated into bone, it has a
long time to sit there and
damage the soft tissue layer
inside the bone, and that can
lead to cancer... To bone cancer,
It turns out the company knew
all along about the harmful
effects of radium, yet they
allowed the girls to ingest it
daily,
Wendy was one of the first to
die,
But six of her colleagues banded
together in the first successful
worker's rights lawsuit,
Overcoming years of denial and
foul play, the radium girls led
to higher safety standards
across America,
Coming up...
a sexy scuba diver can't take
the pressure,
and, snorting fire ants...
that's gotta hurt,
Aah!
Aah!
This next story is a warning
to all who worship false gods,
It can be extremely hazardous to
your health,
Taylor and Conrad's deity?
Ozzy osbourne,
Oz, man,
Ozzy,
To say they are ozzy fans
does a huge disservice to their
complete obsession with the
aging rocker,
Oz!
They live...
ozzy,
They breathe, they eat,
Oz burgers!
Oz burgers!
'cause they're, like, baked
like oz,
Their commitment to ozzy
knows no bounds,
I love oz So much,
I'd do ozzy,
But not, like, in a gay way,
You know, just, like...
I would do him in a gay way,
Yeah, that's cool,
Both: One, two, oz!
Today's the big day,
Ozzfest is in town,
And Taylor has a special treat
for his friend,
Guess what it is,
Guess what it is,
I know, I know, right,
Oz-Cream,
Rock and roll legend has it
that ozzy and Nikki sixx once
snorted a line of ants to show
just how hardcore they were,
It's ants, man!
Fire ants, man,
The decision to snort
ants... From all the things you
could enact from ozzy osbourne...
This probably was not the best
thing to go for, to begin with,
It would be almost a punishment
if there wasn't any social
darwinism involved, and there
wasn't some kind of a
consequence involved,
Oh, dude,
Dude?
Nikki Sixx?
Yeah, Nikki sixx, ozzy, ozzy,
yeah!
Dude,
Taylor and Conrad wanna be
hardcore too,
A couple of lines of fire ants
should do the trick,
Oh!
No, I'm gonna take one, I'm
gonna take it... Here we go,
Oh!
Dude,
As soon as you snort up the
fire ants into your nose, the
first thing they'll do is bite,
Ow!
And immediately upon biting,
they sting,
They'll inject as much venom as
they can,
They are very, very pissed off,
And rightly so,
God, what is that?
Aah!
That will cause intense pain,
hence the headbanging,
Lots of drooling, lots of
screaming, wrenching of the
eyes, trying to clear the nose
out,
You gotta have very long things
to get the ants out of your
nose, and that's just not gonna
happen,
Then the swelling starts,
That'll start closing up the
nose,
You can't breathe,
The trachea starts to close up,
Suffocation follows,
Aah!
Aah!
Stupid bastards,
A couple hundred fire ants won't
necessarily kill you, but if you
inhale them into your nasal
cavity and down your throat, you
can't breathe, you die,
A couple of big jerks,
Ozz-Holes,
stay, stay,
This shapely redhead looks
like she's ready for her next
tanning session,
But looks can be deceiving,
Sandy is a deep sea diver,
A few hours ago, she narrowly
escaped death after her air
tanks failed at a depth of 350
feet,
She had to make an emergency
swim to the surface,
As any diver knows, this could
bring on a fatal attack of the
bends,
When we go down underwater,
we're absorbing more nitrogen
into our bodies,
The air that we're breathing
here, just in the atmosphere, is
about 20% oxygen, about 80%
nitrogen,
So it would be like shaking up a
soda bottle and trying to open
it up very quickly if you come
up to the surface really fast,
Now she's in a decompression
chamber, waiting it out while
the deadly nitrogen Bubbles
slowly dissolve back into her
bloodstream,
If you're down at, say, 100
feet, and you come up nice and
slow, the gas is gonna be slowly
expelled from the... the blood
through the lungs, and you can
exhale it out,
It's going to be hours before
she can exit the chamber,
But she's lucky to be alive, and
she knows it,
She'll take boredom over death
any day,
Unfortunately, the Grim reaper
had other plans for this sexy
scuba goddess,
A maintenance worker at the
scuba center accidentally opens
the Hatch to the decompression
chamber,
No!
In a nanosecond, Sandy goes
from sexy...
to splattered,
All over the chamber,
If, uh, you were to go from
seven atmospheres to one
atmosphere in the blink of an
eye, it's pretty much a done
deal,
It's... It's over,
Up next, an unlucky skydiver
takes a really bad fall,
Can you hear me?
Did you ever have the urge to
try skydiving?
If so, you better not watch this
story,
Chris Colwell was a veteran
skydive teacher making a routine
jump, videotaping one of his
students,
It was different than a
regular routine day,
Uh, it was more a little bit fun
for me because it was... I hadn't
been jumping in a while,
I was also trying to give him
some skills... Some extra skills,
uh, to help him,
2,000 feet into the jump,
Chris sees his student using the
wrong posture, slicing through
the air, down and away from
Chris,
Chris goes into a power dive to
catch up, quickly reaching 165
miles per hour,
But the student put his arms out
to slow down at the worst
moment,
Chris's neck snapped upon
impact,
Actual collision happened
very fast,
I- I realized I was still falling
to the earth, and I started to
have some thoughts of my life
ending and I was visualizing my
wife at the time, and friends
and good times that I had, and
at one point I just sort of let
go,
And I could see the green of the
earth coming up to my side,
I pretty much accepted I was
dying and I let go at that
point, and abruptly my parachute
opened up, and it was very
unexpected, but it opened up
properly,
Chris, can you hear me?
Chris,
Chris's body will never be
the same,
Help me,
Help m...
Okay,
Be still, we've got help on
the way,
Please help me,
But he's alive,
The accident took away his body,
but it revealed that Chris had
the mental strength to embrace a
new lease on life,
I tend to spend most of my
life now focusing on Helping
others live their lives versus
not living my life,
And that's basically
where... where I'm at and what
I've learned from my life now,
is that, uh, life doesn't end
because you lose a part of your
body,