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Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

exquisite tea posted:

If you're a healthy human being you're probably fine, but if your body is already compromised from malnourishment (as McCandless' almost certainly was) then they can be lethal.

Yea, and he was still just REALLY roughing it; he would have just been malnourished and weaker but very much alive if he hadn't eaten what nobody knew to be poison. Like, if he'd killed and properly preserved something along the of a deer he probably would have been able to get out of there.

I have sympathy for that. Dude was kind of dumb for going out there like that but it's not like he tried to climb Everest with that equipment. He was still on a trail mild enough to get a bus out there on.

He could have brought emergency rations and still starved to death if he'd been weak and eaten those seeds.

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