That's true, except for this guy:
Posted on 05/26/2011 8:31:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
John Delaney, founder and CEO of Intrade, the prediction market, has died while trying to climb Mt. Everest.
He was less than 50 meters from the top, according to the Daily Mail.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/intrade-founder-john-delaney-dies-on-mt-everest-2011-5#ixzz1NWGn2RKK
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>> Selfish SOB
Hopefully, his 3 year old daughter will remember him as a hero. Of course, we see things differently.
Wonder what his death on Everest was bidding for on Intrade?
It is a label. The guy would have returned....had an over-sized photo in his office showing his climb...bragging to each and every individual that he had done Everest. It would have been just as impressive to have said you walked the entire Lewis & Clark route or walked the entire border of Tennessee...and been 100 times safer. If you ask me...a wasted life experience at the end.
A guy with that much money could have taken a post-graduate class to find out how pregnancies occur.
In his case, I doubt he felt a thing...
Excellent point.
That's true, except for this guy:
That is a surprise. I thought she was named after Hilary Swank.
-PJ
Anything outdoor can be dangerous, he could as easily died fishing with his children, just because mount Everest is more dangerous you call him an idiot. I’m sure that his family is sitting around calling him an idiot.
Not a risk worth taking when you have young children. They don't get a second childhood.
As easily? Fishing does not kill or maim 10% of everyone who tries it. Climbing mount Everest does. The man was a damn fool. I feel sorry that his children had a selfish egotistical idiot for a father. Now they don't have even that.
And if you think fathers can just as easily die taking their children fishing as climbing mount Everest, then you are TSFW.
Someone else will just raise his kids. I imagine his wife is pretty well-off.
I appreciate your empathy for the man. Too many Freeper keyboard jockeys just want to condemn him. Freepers can be so haughty and self-righteous.
“How is it selfish? He probably paid for this trip and the guides/gear etc months in advance.”
Yes. It could have been a year in the planning or much more. Do you think that is about right, or am I exaggerating?
Definitely these things are not planned overnight.
Why am I reminded of the Prophet Joseph Smith going to the Carthage jail?
“That’s worth dying for.”
Nothing is worth leaving a child without a dad.
“Because he was too busy being a dead rich s.o.b to worry about his family.”
Have you given any thought that his wife encouraged him to go although a baby was coming since so much planning for maybe at least a year and the excitement that had gone into it, and that she was as excited about the climb as he was?
I would have encouraged my husband to continue with his plans and assured him I loved him.
A thread like this deserves the Teddy Roosevelt quote:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
Ref post #43.
You said it all!!!!
He was no pansy, and his wife was no coward.
No doubt she was as gung-ho about his climb as he was.
I can’t imagine either one of them marrying some wimp.
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