Marathon Death Generates $1 Million in Donations: Are Marathons Dangerous?
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2012/04/26 20:00:00
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Claire Squires, a 30-year-old British woman, built a JustGiving donation page when she decided to run the London Marathon. On the page she wrote, "I'm running the london marathon for Samaritans [a suicide prevention helpline] because they continuously support others." But less than a mile from the finish line on Sunday, Squires passed away. Since her untimely death, the page has generated more than $1 million in donations.
Her death has also generated some concern over the safety of running a marathon. Since the London Marathon began in 1981, eleven people have died. However, more than 750,000 people have run in the marathon, meaning the death rate is only a small fraction of a percent -- according to the American College of Cardiology, it's 0.8 per 100,000 people. But still, the fact that anyone is dying from this is bad news. Would you consider marathons "dangerous"?
Her death has also generated some concern over the safety of running a marathon. Since the London Marathon began in 1981, eleven people have died. However, more than 750,000 people have run in the marathon, meaning the death rate is only a small fraction of a percent -- according to the American College of Cardiology, it's 0.8 per 100,000 people. But still, the fact that anyone is dying from this is bad news. Would you consider marathons "dangerous"?
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golem48 2012/04/26 22:50:41
But then again, Claire could have also woken up one morning and fallen and broken her neck getting out of bed or slipped in the shower, or fell down stairs, or hit a power line with a ladder, or.......
First and foremost - understand vitamins to your body are what sparkplugs are to your car. Maybe she concentrated on the cheap easy gain of losing weight and her body rebelled, who can say except that is tragic no matter what the reason.
If they fail, they can't really be that disappointed, and if they win or even just finish, well they can pat themselves on the back for having the gumption to do so.
Yet, personally, if I couldn't run to win, then I wouldn't run just to finish.
It's better to try to dominate over others in competition, and prove a momentary and situaltional superiority to them, than to placate one's own unique patheticness by achieving some personal goal that is nowhere near any real life achievement, and, will in turn, inevitably lead to delusional thinking about one's capabilities.
But that's an elitist mentality, and in fact, for many, just finishing a marathon is more than anything they might find themselves being put to task to do in their entire lives.
His snapshot of my condition was just that, a snapshot that told him nothing of what came before or after. When I said I'd like to get another opinion, he sent an assistant to my room to tell me to find another neurologist. My EKG, MRI, CT scans, blood tests and cartoid sonogram all indicated a patient 20 yrs younger than me and in good health. He only spotted a cholesterol level as something he could possibly point to but could not give a definitive answer to it's affect on my body. I had tingling in my left hand and suggested that he look at sten...
His snapshot of my condition was just that, a snapshot that told him nothing of what came before or after. When I said I'd like to get another opinion, he sent an assistant to my room to tell me to find another neurologist. My EKG, MRI, CT scans, blood tests and cartoid sonogram all indicated a patient 20 yrs younger than me and in good health. He only spotted a cholesterol level as something he could possibly point to but could not give a definitive answer to it's affect on my body. I had tingling in my left hand and suggested that he look at stenosis of the upper vertabrae to see if that was impacting my nervous system (which I also knew because of a neck xray earlier in the year). That is exactly the test he DID NOT run.... Yet, he ruled my condition as 'suspicious' and likely 'stroke prone' - that has an impact on my ability to get life insurance, because of this one doctor.
Yes, competitive sports are dangerous. Who knew?
Anyway, If you do not know what you are doing, jogging a couple of miles can be, dangerous.