The Survivors Club The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
"True of False?
1. The safest seats in an airplane are in the back.
2. If you suffer cardiac arrest, you're more likely to survive in a Las Vegas Casino than many hospitals.
3. If you fall into a frozen lake, you've only got three minutes to escape the water.
4. People who go to church once a week live six years longer than people who don't.
5. Luck is random--you can't control it.
6. In prisoner-of-war camps in Vietnam, optimists lived longer than anyone else.
7. Right-handed people lived an average of two to five years longer than lefties.
8. The oldest living thing is a cactus in the Sahara Desert.
9. The survival rate in airplane accidents is less than 13 percent.
1. The safest seats in an airplane are in the back.
2. If you suffer cardiac arrest, you're more likely to survive in a Las Vegas Casino than many hospitals.
3. If you fall into a frozen lake, you've only got three minutes to escape the water.
4. People who go to church once a week live six years longer than people who don't.
5. Luck is random--you can't control it.
6. In prisoner-of-war camps in Vietnam, optimists lived longer than anyone else.
7. Right-handed people lived an average of two to five years longer than lefties.
8. The oldest living thing is a cactus in the Sahara Desert.
9. The survival rate in airplane accidents is less than 13 percent.
Summary:
In all types of accidents there are people that perish and those who survive impossible odds. The individuals that die and those that do not often went through the same circumstances yet why did only one of them live? Scientists believe these are known as the "human factors of survival" (1). It turns out there are certain things in life that increase a person's chance of surviving a tramatic event, an accident, and everyday stresses like paying bills. Genetics can come into play in these scenarios, but other major factors control the outcome as well. All of these traits come together to help decide who survives and who does not.
The Survivors Club is an exclusive group comprised of people that have gone through atrocities in their lives and survived. There are people like Ellin Klor, who fell in her house and punctured her chest and heart with a knitting needle. Jerry Schemmel, who survived a plane crash that killed 111 passengers. Ricky Bunch, who drove off a cliff in his Ford F150 and recovered to become a paramedic. Also, there are the few survivors of the Golden Gate Bridge, where suicide rates are extremely high. On the bridge in California, nearly 1250 people have committed to the jump and only 28 have survived. Then, there are the prisoners of war in Vietnam and the Holocaust survivors that went through some of the worst times in history.
In all types of accidents there are people that perish and those who survive impossible odds. The individuals that die and those that do not often went through the same circumstances yet why did only one of them live? Scientists believe these are known as the "human factors of survival" (1). It turns out there are certain things in life that increase a person's chance of surviving a tramatic event, an accident, and everyday stresses like paying bills. Genetics can come into play in these scenarios, but other major factors control the outcome as well. All of these traits come together to help decide who survives and who does not.
The Survivors Club is an exclusive group comprised of people that have gone through atrocities in their lives and survived. There are people like Ellin Klor, who fell in her house and punctured her chest and heart with a knitting needle. Jerry Schemmel, who survived a plane crash that killed 111 passengers. Ricky Bunch, who drove off a cliff in his Ford F150 and recovered to become a paramedic. Also, there are the few survivors of the Golden Gate Bridge, where suicide rates are extremely high. On the bridge in California, nearly 1250 people have committed to the jump and only 28 have survived. Then, there are the prisoners of war in Vietnam and the Holocaust survivors that went through some of the worst times in history.