decaputated biker

[gel9001]

I'm probably going to buy one of these: http://www.leatt-brace.com/
this summer. I suspect there going to get more and more popular as the number of people on bikes continues to increase. I'm sure they'll come in quite handy in a rear end collision

[marecycling]

Death smiles at us all, brother, you've just got to learn to smile back!

[toner87]

Can someone please fix the spelling of "decaputated"? It's really bugging me.

[Beemeridian]

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[new2BMW]

Getting old kills people too, but I'm still going to do it.

Remember too that a decapitation, although gruesome for the witnesses is not all that different to the victim than a heart attack, stroke or being eaten by an aligator.

[pjpockets]

I was hit in a driveway while going five miles an hour. Some dingbat women comes screaming into the driveway and goes right through me. I thought about quiting for weeks, then after the bike was fixed I pulled my stomach out of my throat, and climed back on. Im glad I did, but sometimes I still let my mind drift to that fear. That is what all this is about is our overcoming our fears. If this man quits riding or not, his fear will always be with him, as it is with all of us. It is the way with all that live. God bless us all, ride safe, and be well!!!!!!!

[Harry]

FM696969 has every right to lose his nerve to ride. He obviously witnessed a horrible thing.

But I used to work in a hospital and every EMT that I spoke to told me that whenever they saw a dead or injured motorcyclist, it was *always* the result of the *rider* doing something stupid. I'll bet that the dead riders he saw were speeding through the intersection when they got hit. Slowing down at intersections is the most basic rule of motorcycle safety.

We can ride everyday AND do it safely if we choose to. We will all have the occasional close call, but it will usually be the result of our own actions.

[Red1]

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I've pondered the possiblilty of dying on my bike... probably think about it each time I go out
- which is often, very often. However, there is nothing else in this world (outside of my nuclear family)
that gives me as much pleasure as riding.

It is like good sex, only lasts much, much longer. (well, not true in my 20's... )

Life is so very unpredictable. This weekend I'll attend memorial services for a wonderful woman
who collapsed while working out, stayed in a coma for almost 2 weeks, and was finally taken off
life support yesterday. Just received word that she finally is at rest, she died.

She was too young to die. Her husband, children and many others needed her. But she died.

It happens. We'll all get there in time.
Personally, I'll keep riding because
THERE IS NO OTHER TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN IF FEEL AS ALIVE AS WHEN I'M RIDING.
Interesting dichotomy, no???
.

[chris]

I just buried a friend a few months older than I am (43), with two daughters the same age as mine. I found out he had terminal cancer the day I got my RR. It took the shine off the new bike a little but at the same time I was glad I took the plunge and bought it because, as has been said here before in many different ways, you never know when your number is up. However you choose to do it, live every day like you mean it.

[Just-Beeming]

This is a really interesting and quality thread. I so agree with YellowJacket that this is something we all ponder and coping with it includes discussion and getting ones thoughts out regarding such a topic.

So...I am an Oncology Nurse...16 years. I have seen cancer like you have never seen. Young parents, College kids just starting out, Beloved partners...young , old, poor, successful...Cancer does not choose...cancer is equal opportunity.

I want to tell you about a man named Dave Ryan.
Mid 40's, Acute Leukimia, married to sweet Maggie and two boys 12 and 14 at the time. He was an FBI agent assigned to postal and shipping. Smart Guy. Nice Guy....Good husband, good Dad...Soccer coach.

Very few adults survive Acute onset Leukemia...and the chemo/transpant is really agonizing. Dave knew this.

I was about the same age as Dave, in a place in my personal life when all things were unraveling. I was contemplating divorce, really, really miserable and very confused.

I was in Daves room adjusting his chemo...

I overheard Dave tell his best friend
"Never before have I seen my life with such clarity"

See your life with Clarity.

I continue to ponder that. Dave has been dead more than 10 years....

See your life with Clarity.

Know what is important to you. Really live, Really love, Really make a difference.

As for me...I divorced the Bum and years later remaried a great guy who encourages me, Loves and laughs with me, and ...RIDES!


Thank you Dave!

[dragonmojo]

Ended up marrying Clarity?

[Beemeridian]

6

[KHaynes]

It amazes me how one knows the risks of riding and then when they are confirmed by our observations, one talks about giving it up.

Either before or after witnessing such an event, the risk has not changed, so what logic forces this decision?

[beemerphile]

... so what logic forces this decision?

Yes Mr. Spock. quite illogical, but humans have an emotional side as well.

[dragonmojo]

It's like, easier to eat a burger if you don't have to watch ol' Bessie being dismembered and ground up in the process!

[FM696969]

i'm back on my bike 3 days after the decaputation accident, i rode pass the accident scene today with no problems...life goes on.

[bimrluvr]

Quick recovery. Good for you.

[Beemeridian]

56

[birdslayer]

everyone dies but not everyone really lives,know the savior,and live life to the fullest,when its your turn to stand before god he will send the angel of death for you ,does it matter if its a motto wreck or cancer or drowning etc.just be ready everyday.

[scottybooj]

when it's your time, it's your time.

if you have ever studies Taoism, it speaks of how everyone creates their destiny, good or bad. It's actually a cold realism, to think that somebody 'created' their own demise. But think about it, have you ever concentrated hard on a particular idea and it comes to be? Some would say that you put that idea out into the universe and the universe answered you.

I'm not saying that people ask to die, especially by decapitation. But through their actions, thoughts, and intentions (possibly all of them UNintentional) they created their destiny.

God be with them and all of you. Focus and concentrate on the things you want in life. Don't focus on the moron who 'might' come out of a side road. You still have to be vigilant, but don't put the idea that somebody can kill you out into the universe. Cause you know what, the universe will deliver when you least expect it.

Be one with the Tao young grasshoppers.