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27. Death of John Edward Jones (21 points)
Nominated by: jcgamer107 (1/5 remaining)
https://youtu.be/WaIoXN-7FjM

Importance: 10
Fear: 10
Snake: 1

This is such a tragic and depressing loss of life. John Edward Jones was an amateur spelunker, recently married, had a 1-year old daughter, and attending med school. Things were looking up. It was a few days before Thanksgiving, and Jones was with his family and friends, nine others, at Nutty Putty Cave in Utah. When I say Jones was an amateur spelunker, I mean he hadn't done it since he was a child. So, when he tried a challenging area of the cave network, known as the Birth Canal, he found he wasn't as small as he used to be and found himself with no choice but to keep moving forwards as going backwards was not an option. Eventually, the passage got so narrow that Jones was completely stuck. John's brother found him, and went up to the surface to get help. It took an hour alone to even get equipment down to where John was. Even with rescue services, they couldn't get him out. If they pulled him out, his legs would've been broken; now you may say, well, broken legs are better than dying, but the shock of the injury combined with fluids pooling in his head and lungs would've been enough to kill him. A true catch-22, lose-lose situation. Despite the best efforts of the rescue time, John was unable to get out and died, still in Nutty Putty Cave to this day, which is now sealed and erected as a natural moment to Jones. This story is enough to turn anyone into a claustrophobe, and it's truly horrifying how rescue was so close in reach, and the physical and psychological toll of being stuck that long only to see the rescue efforts fail. My heart goes out to his family and I hope any thrill-seekers looking to pull something off like this in the future take better precaution and look at the worst-case scenario before getting into something you'll very quickly regret.

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Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
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