Would you do it to stay alive?

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So, I sat down and watched Man vs. Wild with my husband this weekend, which I've done once or twice before. But I can't stop thinking about this episode. For those of you who do not know the show, this guy gets dropped off in the middle of nowhere and has to surive, make it to a place that we will find people to help him. I saw him surive in the snow. Extreme stuff. I will tell you right now, if you have a weak stomach, don't like the killing of animals, don't like bugs, don't read any further. Once again, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER if you are easily disgusted. I missed the beginning of the show, but saw him as he started out somewhere in Mexico. His goal was to reach the ocean. I'll just highlight the bullet points and put in my perspective. 1. Scale a mountain to see where you are and need to go. Scaling the side of a mountain and almost jumping onto a rattle snake on the way down. To avoid the rattle snake, jump into a near by tree. ---Yes, I would do this. 2. Get down to the bottom and find decaying tree. Dig out 7 inch larvae, squish out the bad guts and eat it. Also grab a nearby beatle, bite of it's head and attempt to eat the rest (but it was too bitter). ---Not the beatle, too cruchy. I would have to be really bad off for the the worm thing. Or so I thought until... 3. Use shoelaces to get water from the side of a boulder into my waterbottle ---Yes, that's an easy one. 4. Find skunk tracks, make a snare from wires found in old truck, snare the skunk, go into an incredibily fowl smelling area, using your jacket to grab skunk hanging from the air, then cut off it's head. Then put it on a stick, burn off all the hair, roast it and eat it. Said it tasted like steak that had be rubbed in dog feces. ---No, no and no. I probably would have died there. 5. Next day find beehive. Cover up my body except for eyes and forehead. Get stung and have eyes swell up so you can barely see and you continue to walk trough a more desert area. ---I would have hoped I would have remembered to cover my entire body. The honey was good stuff. 6. Run into another rattlesnake, that wants to attack you. But you can't see it that well because your eyes are swollen. You you take a big stick and try to pin it to the ground behind the head so it can't get you. But the way, the sucker is around 4 feet long. Pin it, and in one motion, stab it through the head so it can't open it's mouth, then cut off the head. By the way, it's still moving around. Then skin it, which was interesting done in one motion. Roast and eat it. ---Possibily if I had a knife. He said it tasted like a combo of chicken and fish. 7. Get stuck in the sand dune with no water. Take out snake skin that you saved. Pee in it and it and then drink it. ---No. No way. My husband says you have to be really desprate to do that. Of course, he did make it to the ocean. So would you do any of these things? Of course, it's harder for me, the city girl to deal with some of these things, even though I do go camping. (Sorry this one's so long.)