> I've probably been closer to death more often than any of you (no, really), but I've never felt like I was going to die. Well, I've never thought much of anything at the time. Afterwards I think "How on Earth did I survive that?", but it's only ever afterwards I find I have time to worry about it...
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> Wierd, huh?

Not all that weird. People have a physiological survival reaction which seems to shut down all the worrying-about-things parts of your mind and diverts energy to the how-to-survive-this parts.

Brunnen-"not sure whether *all* people have it, because we tend not to hear from the people who don't"G