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Originally Posted by thesheriff443
The biggest lesson that should be learned from this is,
Don’t pressure your kids into doing something they don’t want to do.
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I agree. Overall I'd say for those who chose to do it ... no it's not something I'd have chosen to do, but many adults have dangerous hobbies (and have died doing them) - caving, base jumping, various other extreme sports - and it's up to the individual if they want to take the risk ...
I don't really see this being all that different to the numerous people who have died trying to climb Everest. Just down instead of up.
But if the above is true about the young lad not wanting to do it and being pressured (excuse the pun) into doing it by his dad then that is truly tragic. You can imagine the rhetoric really. Telling him to man up, stop being a coward, etc. when he was like "We might die". And then they died
. I hope there's an afterlife so that he gets to say "I ****ing told you so dad!"