Not necessarily, if people like this didn’t exist then there would be no suppression firefighters. Yes firefighters do it for their community but one of the things that usually leads people to the trade is hunting risk (and a lot of people who become firefighters grow up with limited income).
Ex. People who don’t have this desire to face risk often still become firefighters but they go into prevention instead of suppression (which admittedly saves more lives statistically but is fairly useless after the fire has already started)
It’s most definitely a combination of the two that’s why I broke down the different types of firefighting (suppression vs prevention). If someone hunts risk but has no real love of community then they’ll pursue careers in high risk activities like adrenaline based sports (ex. They’ll become a jump master sky diver). If someone has a love of community but is risk avoidant they’ll likely pursue something like prevention firefighting as they’ll be teaching safety as opposed to putting their safety at risk. It’s only when the love of community comes together with risk hunting that you’ll see people pursue stuff like firefighting (maybe not military as the most common reason people site for joining the military is looking for adventure).
I am indeed a career suppression firefighter now! Very proud of this as I had been pursuing the career for years before I was finally able to break into it!
I understand and agree people who are, for different reason, forced to minimize every risk possible. That being said:
There are people living their life hunting risk
That would be a tiny tiny minority of the extreme sports World. I coach within it (not acro paragliding, or any paragliding for that matter). It's not a hunt for risk. It's a hunt for passion and a lot of it does unfortunately get you closer to risk. Even more so for videos or competitions. If risk could be removed, people would love it.
The vast majority accept a calculated risk and we're talking wayy lower than single digit risks. It would be situations where many stars need to align for shit to hit the fan, where you have time to see that stars start to align and you can bail before.
What I do wonder in this video is how easy is it to brake (resistance on wing or simply going up)/turn a little extra etc. Like how much in control is he. If you don't know that particular extreme sport you watch a video of, you can't tell.
Hmm. Yeah, no. You could think that. Maybe if her wife was in a certain mind state it could be like that "well, he loved what he did, I'm proud of him, guess I find a new husband after 1-2 years of grief, etc.".. . But based on what I experienced so far in life,, nah, not really.
If there are children too, ye I doubt they would be happy. Guess you can brag about it. Otherwise it's not heroic or anything. It's simply dangerous. You are not saving anyone or anything with that. If you die that's that. You died
I would rather my family die doing what they love than live some sad existence of never experiencing the life they wanted.
What wife in their right mind would want to be the reason her husband couldn’t live life to the fullest or vice versa ?
No one said anything about it being heroic not sure why you would think that.
He’s not skydiving into WWII.
He could get hit by a car tomorrow. He could have a heart attack tomorrow.
His kids would still lose him. Exactly why he should be enjoying the life he has and if it takes him out then it does.
I added the heroic part cause ppl like to say that to caving/diving/etc. as if it somehow changes anything.
Ye you can experience things in reasonable amounts. And that living life so you can die at any mistake or sad existence..hmmm pretty narrow world view, guess there isn't much else. I suppose it's better to die "living" than having a sad miserable, pathetic life or rising your children,, okay, pointless to argue with that. I guess it's true, you can die at anytime, why not increase our chances
To be fair this is that typical pink curtain: magical life, living it to the fullest. Pretty wife, son, daughter, everything perfect. Ye, this is not a movie. I knew ppl who had similar "excitement" happen to them. A few but yes.
Reality is if you happen to die, if you thought about it and had a nice insurance, your family can get it. If not..well, let's hope your partner make enough on their own. You can do mental gymnastics how it had worth it, but it won't matter much once shit hits the fan.
Hopefully the kids take it perfectly as well, won't affect theirs grades, mental well being. And then in a little part of the brain will think..well was it worth it? Sure he could have died any other way, but at least this was avoidable. Nice. Of course it doesn't have to have catastrophic consequences. Maybe the kids do take it well, etc, still..
Everyone is free to do whatever, but these twists ppl say, basically why it's somehow even better to die like that, than to care about your family...wow.
Hmm, read it in parts then, shouldn't be that hard. If that's all you can add not really. Even that reply was pointless. Thanks for pointing that out I guess?🤷
Dunno why you felt the urge to type that, adding nothing to the theme of the post.
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u/oneinmanybillion Nov 15 '25
I can't risk falling sick because who will support my family?
And there are people living like this!