Aren’t we supposed to be our brother’s keeper?
A good Samaritan?
The person that’s holding your hand let’s go... AND??? Then what? You notice a seagull is flying over head? You notice the sky is blue? You notice that you are getting an itch under your nostrils? Do you notice A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G else? ANYTHING!!!
The more I think about it, at the very least- the word negligence keeps popping up.
Occam’s razor. Sometimes the most obvious and simplest answer IS the answer.
What strikes me from reading Yamamoto’s [sp?] acct is that he seems certain from the moment Fuddy’s grip relaxes that she’s dead. How cd he possibly have known she hadn’t simply fainted? If she *had* fainted, that wd be all the more reason for him to hold on more tightly, not just let go & allow her to drift away.