10 Seconds to Death

Hypothermia, Frost Bite and death are the common cases when it comes to being out in the cold for to long. But really death is always caused by people either being stupid or really it's just the individual out of luck but honestly who would want to die in the cold anyway? Think of it, would you want a quick death and end your life faster or would want a slow painful death where everything even odds are stacked against you. But whatever way you choose your always going to end up with the same results and that is death. Death to many is something they take personally but its always that inner flame of people their will is what they use to stand up to the cold and defeat it times where moments are dark and gloomy. For one man up in the Yukon Territory he had no will and soon learned the hard way that mother nature can be really cruel.

A man was up in the Yukon probably on vacation to escape stress and personal troubles. It was winter and everybody and everything was either very silent and still or slowly taking their time wandering through the cold. The Temperature was 50- -75 below zero what kind of a mad man would want to be hiking in such bitter cold. Of course these temperatures are cold enough to freeze mercury and who knows what it can do to an individual. At first when the man came into contact with the cold he thought that it was just going to be a regular cold northern day but he shall soon find out is to never underestimate the forces of nature. It was the middle of the night and considering its winter he soon realized it was getting even colder. There was one problem the man had no imagination and the longer he was exposed to the cold the more vulnerable to the cold he has gotten. There was another problem this man had no imagination which was his biggest downfall. Without his imagination what he didn't realize was how close death was to him. At first to the man was flirting with death and as time moves on death then grips him in a choke hold which he knows he cannot escape from. To this man he didn't care about much most of the time he'll pass it by chewing tobacco but mother nature shows how brutal she can be by freezing the sherbet colored saliva right on his chin causing a smelly beard of tobacco to form but still the man didn't care much. In this journey the man had a companion and that was a sled dog. In climates like this animals such as these sled dogs have learned in an instant how to survive such severe conditions. It was morning and the temperature was slowly rising and the man started to walk down the trail to the river where he would regroup with some boys and then they'll camp and celebrate but soon the temperature wasn't moving at all and soon the man came to the realization that he is cold. And so he was already suffering from hypothermia. But hypothermia wasn't alone in this. Hypothermia's best friend frostbite kicked in and with the combination of the two death was marching towards him. And so as the Afternoon started waning his condition began to worsen. He had matches with him to start a fire to keep him war but as he was enjoying his little piece of paradise nature got payback by dropping snow on top of his fire from a tree. The man was really cold and with no feeling left in his extremities he couldn't start another fire. And so he turned to the dog and thought he could kill the dog and then live inside of the dog but the man was dumb and the dog was smart and the dog backed away and finally agonizing hours later the man fell and never got back up again. He knew death was here and instead of running away from it he decided to embrace it and so the man died in the bitter cold.

Winter is a season of cruelty. Many that are not prepared suffer the price but those who have imagination and think shall always be the ones to save themselves instead of suffering a mercyful fate such as a slow painful death