Self-amputation

lamp · February 5, 2011, 7:11am

Re: Self-amputation

Kind of a gross topic, sorry. But my old friend wikipedia sometimes tells intriguing stories.

In some cases when a person has become trapped in a deserted place, with no means of communication or hope of rescue, the victim has amputated their own limb:

In 2007, a 66 year old man amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a fallen tree he was cutting in California.

In 2003, a 27 year old man amputated his forearm using his pocketknife and breaking and tearing the two bones, after the arm got stuck under a boulder when hiking in Utah.

Also in 2003, a coal miner amputated his own arm with a Stanley knife after it became trapped when the front-end loader he was driving overturned three kilometers underground.

… and so many more similar cases.

Question: Isn’t survival after amputation even more difficult?

desperate times call for desperate measures…translates into will to survive