Would ya ... could ya...?

[Cyalaytr]

Hikers Fall / Death Explained

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) A man whose body was found in a 24-foot-deep mine shaft near Mount Pisgah last week apparently was injured in a fall and committed suicide rather than wait for rescue or death, Teller County authorities said.

A hiker found the body of Lance Rezac, 46, on July 6. An autopsy confirmed that cause of death was a gunshot wound, and that Rezac died some time last fall.

Rezac's mother, Donna Rezac of Monument, said authorities might never know how long her son waited for help to come.

She said the sheriff's office found a broken rope and believes her son was trying to rappel into the shaft when the rope broke. He fell to the bottom and broke several ribs.

"It would be awful to think of someone just suffering down there," Donna Rezac said Tuesday.

Teller County Undersheriff Marcus Woodward said the coroner was unable to determine how long Rezac was in the shaft before he shot himself with a .32-caliber pistol.

But he said it was unlikely that Rezac could have survived long. No water bottles were found with him.

It also was unlikely that other hikers would have passed by the shaft, about three-quarters of a mile from a county road.

"It was well off the beaten path," Woodward said.

Donna Rezac said her son had always loved to hike alone in the woods.

Lance Rezac, who was single, worked as a night auditor in a Colorado Springs hotel before resigning late last September. His mother said she wasn't very concerned about not hearing from him for several weeks, but as time passed, the family grew increasingly scared.

Then they heard that a body was discovered and called the sheriff's office.

"We heard the description of the clothes," she said. "Something just clicked."

[zelazny]

No, i'd try to go on untill the end.
I'm a hopeles optimist, and i'll hope something will end up okay.

[SHATOUSHKA]

well this circles back to that dumbass that cut
his arm off due to that boulder incident....

i bet it was purty grizzly seeing a body that
has been in a friggen shaft for almost a year...

good thing he didn't wait for help [img]redface.gif[/img]

[zelazny]

well.. hindsight is 20/20.
But i don't think if i'd want to end my own life, it would be such a waste, sure i can choose to end my life in a less painfull and faster way, but i'd miss out on that which we all want so sorely : to live, be it just a day longer.

[Tard]

Zela sounds like a pie-in-the-sky feet never touching the ground mindless Hippy in these type of threads....

[zelazny]

yeah.
I just wouldn't do it..
i mean, let fate take me, being in control of my own death won't change anything, as far as that goes, and my chances of survival are still higher while i don't kill myself.

[Cyalaytr]

My luck would be just as soon as I pull the trigger I would hear a car door slam. [img]confused.gif[/img]

[zelazny]

yup. that reason.
Plus the horrible realization that this is it. I don't want to do that, i'm a wuss, i'd rather end up falling in a coma from dehydration and starvation, than doing it in such a way.