[The_Reader_David]

Very sad.

But I wonder. When the press is in multicultural mode, they defend the practice among some tribal peoples in the far north of senilicide by hypothermia, saying that hypothermia is a peaceful and painless death.

Now, when it happens in the lower 48 thanks to government malfeasance (can you imagine the firestorm if it had been a private utility?), hypothermia is described as a slow, painful death.

Anyone reading the thread ever have an near brush with death by hypothermia and care to comment from experience?

[ought-six]

“Anyone reading the thread ever have an near brush with death by hypothermia and care to comment from experience?”

Well, I don’t know how close I ever got to hypothermia, but one time when I was hunting (in Northern Illinois) a few years back in early December my toes got to hurting like hell (and I was dressed in good cold-weather gear, such as Sorrel winter boots, thermal and wool socks, etc.) so I headed back to my Jeep to get out of the elements, and by the time I got there my toes were completely numb: I couldn’t feel them at all. However, after about 30 minutes sitting in my Jeep with the heater on I felt my toes again; and HOW, I felt my toes! A pain that was beyond pain as my toes regained circulation. That was frostbite. If hypothermia is anything like that, I never want to experience it.

[mamelukesabre]

I don’t know how close I was to hypothermia...but...

ONe time I got caught on a motorcycle 20 miles from home in shorts and T shirt when the temp dropped real fast to about 40 degrees F. By the time I got home, I couldn’t feel my arms or legs or my face or my scalp. I was dizzy, had trouble talking(like when your tongue goes numb from licking an icecream cone) and couldn’t walk in a straight line. I almost fell down when I put the bike on it’s kickstand. I could BARELY move my fingers. It took two hands to turn the ignition key off and pull the key out.

I don’t recall any pain. Except a mild headache.

I crawled into a blanket on the floor and laid there for about 4 hours, shivering uncontrollably for the first hour. And I mean shaking like I had epilepsy or something. I was too tired to do anything except lay there. I think all that shaking just completely wore me out from head to toe.

I was very shocked how long it took to warm up.

[an amused spectator]

Anyone reading the thread ever have an near brush with death by hypothermia and care to comment from experience?

You're pretty much out of it. Kanu Virani is full of it. Of course, he's from the Flats, and they'll say anything down there...