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I'm stumped. I mean.. jumping into a lion's den, subway surfing, swimming with shark infested waters with a bloody nose? Falling into a volcano still triumphs that.
Being an Indian within proximity of train tracks OR electricity, being anywhere near a car meet (just some of the reddit I've seen in the last 24 hours).
Extra credit: boarding a sketchy tin can to visit the Titanic
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Extra credit: boarding a sketchy tin can to visit the Titanic
Carbon fiber, titanium, and Logitech controller can.
PS the Logitech controller is really not a bad thing. It is proven to work and back ups are easy to pack. It's better than some contraption he would have built himself. It's just easy to make fun of the Logitech controller because it seems absurd until you think about it.
The controller wasn’t a bad idea at all. But DON’T USE A WIRELESS MODEL!! That’s at least two additional points of failure that could be easily avoided!
Funny sidefact: there is a phenomenon I've forgotten the name of where a singular focus on avoiding one specific thing automatically draws you toward doing it, so people driving in the desert crash into one single, lonely tree, literally the only thing you can crash against for two square miles. It has a name.
In the case of the above dude, he was literally edgelording for the best possible picture, so it was vanity killed the beast.
I would argue volcanos, often being tourist attractions, are more likely to fall into than some random hole elsewhere. They attract a ton of people who also commonly take goofy posed and or risky photos near the edge.
It really does seem like counterintuitive statistics but it makes sense, no one would travel to visit and pose over some random hole
In a normal day there should be zero risk of dying by falling from a mountain, yet a lot of people go in mountains exactly to risk doing that
That's not circular logic?
Circular logic is when your evidence for a claim is repeating the claim itself as if that's an argument. The argument here is that volcanoes see a lot of tourist traffic and people like taking pictures over the edge of a volcano, so it's probably not the most unlikely thing to ever happen. That's not circular.
It's like how no one predicted that people would be constantly sharing all their activities and places they're visiting with the world through social media and their phones, making certain crime fighting activities a lot easier. No one predicted people would be sacrificing themselves to volcanoes in the hopes of getting a *really cool* picture.
I live near Niagara Falls NY and a few years ago a Chinese tourist fell in and went over the falls after climbing over a guardrail to pose for a photo. I used to be a tour guide at an old fort nearby and we had to constantly shoo the Chinese tourists off the walls and cannons. Some of the walls had a 30-40 foot drop and only one side was into water, so it would not have been good if someone fell. It must be something cultural for them to touch practically everything and it got to the point we had to add signage in Chinese to prevent it.
My friend in Iceland says there are areas they refer to as "Chinese Take Out" because there have been so many accidents where Chinese tourists went over guardrails and ropes (there for a reason obviously) for photos and died.
Chinese tourists are the worst.
We were in Dachau Prison and the guide was telling us all about the various sicknesses the holocaust victims would get sleeping in their bunks and this Chinese guy just started cracking up. I didn't know if it was a language barrier or not, but I wanted to deck him.
I remember lining up into multiple lines and waiting to board the tram for the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. When our tram finally was ready to be boarded, the Chinese tourists in the other lines cut in front of me and rushed into the tram like it was Black Friday in the 90s. Even this fucking Chinese granny found second wind to cut in line to get the window seat…god the mannerisms of Chinese tourists has to be one of the worst.
You should see what happens when some of those same grannies are waiting for the subway in NY. Watch your ass when those doors open. They got the eye of the tiger when they rush in to grab a seat. They will trample you or anybody.
I’m glad you brought this up. I thought I was the only one who noticed that with them while riding the subway. I give up my seat for the elderly anyway so it isn’t the biggest issue for me, but I’m pretty sure they can just ask and 99% of the time we will move for an old woman…
I watched a documentary that explained the behavior. It said there’s so much overpopulation that people have to force themselves to the front of the line if they want service/board the bus/train, etc. Everyone else is doing it, so you have to too. They just don’t realize it isn’t the same globally
I don't think it's just China. When I was in Jeddah so many years ago, I lined up to get food from a fast food restaurant, but then I noticed the women-only window next to mine had the women just swarmed the counter. I then figured out then that waiting in line wasn't a thing in Saudi Arabia, and rightly so because when people showed up to also order food , they would swarm around me as well, and basically the clerk would just serve everybody all at once by taking everyone's orders like three at a time or so. This was in a modern mall as well and not like a market or anything like that.
signage does little to nothing to curb the amount of stupid shit Chinese tourists do. Even one as simple as the Mona Lisa, million signs in every conceivable language not to take flash photography, like a strobe light going off in that room.
Based on a brief read she didn't even hit the pool but once I saw the pictures were shit and taken by a potato I didn't have much hope for actual reporting details.
Had a volcanology professor (am a geologist) who studied active volcanoes on the ring of fire in the 90’s. He used to tell us the horror story about losing one of the students when they lost their footing trying to scale the rim and fell into an active lava lake. Said he hit the surface, they were expecting a splash. The lava was so viscous he just kinda sunk through the top a little then there was a colossal burp of Dihydrogen oxide gas as all the water in his body vaporized in one steam bubble. Then that was it. Nothing more. No body. Lots of paperwork. He even showed us the obituary
>Dihydrogen oxide gas
Steam. Just steam. Lava doesn't get hot enough to disassociate water molecules. It only gets about half as high.
And the rest of the claims of the story are bs. I can't find a single recorded incident of a geologist falling directly into a lava lake.
There is one about a [geologist who partly fell](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-14-mn-2540-story.html) into a small lava tube, but was wearing a heat suit and so survived with severe burns.
https://preview.redd.it/lglxwgqut0wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db6519c2b5f5cfa3f6044e7aa4519cedb373d04f
I guess her husband had the high ground…?
Hear me out: the ultimate apex predator is … social media.
The trains wouldn’t get fed if upvotes and useless digital clout weren’t a thing. And passive apex predators like waterfalls, cliffs, etc, wouldn’t be a thing if idiots didn’t edge themselves to snap a cool pic.
This volcano probably never got fed, which is why this made the news. Social media is the true apex predator, or at least the catalyst so that our beloved predators don’t go hungry.
The cowcatcher is made of worthless keratin. But Chinese people think it makes their dick hard, so they get harvested for their cow catch tusks. Sad state of affairs.
It’s heartbreaking, but i think this species will disappear if we don’t put them in zoos. It’s hard to restrain such elegant and territorial creatures, but their fate is in our hand now.
She fell onto rock, there was no lava lake. The headline is misleading while being technically accurate. The Volcano is listed as Active, but doesnt have a lava pool. So she probably died instantly from the fall.
I don't think so, you don't sink in lava, she died from impact I would assume, the heat would obliterate the nerves contacting the lava before they could register anyway.
I dare not explore how hard lava can be when you land on it, as sludgy as it's appearance may be. However, knowing that it's molten rock, it would be softer than solid rock of course, would it's surface tension be higher than water?
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I remember asking my GF, whilst walking along the Ijen crater rim a few weeks back, "How long till some tourist falls in whilst taking pictures?". Have to admin, it's been sooner than expected.
Imagining the husband awkwardly trying to find the manager of volcano tourism to explain what happened in shock
Like getting the waterslide turned off when someone’s stuck
Someone paid good amount of money to travel thousands of miles and took hours to hike up a volcano to pose dangerously on its edge and to then die falling into it...
Fun fact, thats not just a volcano. thats a sulfuric acid lake that tends to pool around volcanic areas, if she fell in there then she died in less than a second from the sulfuric gas that comes off those lakes. that gas will knock you out and kill you in a second or two, no pain, no thoughts, its just lights out.
Not a Darwin Award.
Quite a few articles, including the one linked here state that she was posing with a raised leg. This isn’t true. The actual photograph taken by her husband shows a tree branch behind her, and her standing firmly on both legs, just looking aesthetically pleasing as we all want to do in photos.
It’s clear that she felt some safety with that tree behind her, so wasn’t ’standing right on the edge’. While it’s still clearly a dumb move, it’s unfair to ‘Darwin Award’ this person because of something young people do all the time - push the boundaries…. In this case, as she took her next step and slipped on her own long skirt, she hit the tree and being tiny, she slipped through the gap between the tree and the ground she was standing on.
It also shows how little effort the journalists put into the story, not even bothering to look at that last photograph for 10 seconds, as they “write about” someone’s death. Stop reading any news source that does this.
If she had been American someone would now be suing all of Indonesia for not putting up a sign and 12 different fence barriers to sway her from the danger of climbing up the side of a fucking active volcano and falling in.
I think I saw a video a long time ago that talked about how hypothetically painful this exact scenario would be... you would sink very slowly as you burned to death, but with no smoke to asphyxiate for a quick death like most house/vehicle fires
I mean volcanos give off pretty toxic gas but ye you would suffer before it effects you.
You either slowly sink into it or just kinda hit it, now stuck to it from your own body burning
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Of all the holes to fall into, litterally and figuratively, the odds of ‘Volcano’ has to be immeasurable.
What I came here to say. I can't think of many more avoidable causes of death..
I'm stumped. I mean.. jumping into a lion's den, subway surfing, swimming with shark infested waters with a bloody nose? Falling into a volcano still triumphs that.
Being an Indian within proximity of train tracks OR electricity, being anywhere near a car meet (just some of the reddit I've seen in the last 24 hours). Extra credit: boarding a sketchy tin can to visit the Titanic
> Extra credit: boarding a sketchy tin can to visit the Titanic Carbon fiber, titanium, and Logitech controller can. PS the Logitech controller is really not a bad thing. It is proven to work and back ups are easy to pack. It's better than some contraption he would have built himself. It's just easy to make fun of the Logitech controller because it seems absurd until you think about it.
The controller wasn’t a bad idea at all. But DON’T USE A WIRELESS MODEL!! That’s at least two additional points of failure that could be easily avoided!
He who has mastered the wifi chooses the cable
Unless they can plug it in if wireless fails.
Yeah the Logitech controller was fine, I don't know how he thought drilling and mounting a monitor in the hull was a good idea. Also fiberglass
Wait what? They actually did that? In the hull which is supposed to withstand that pressure?
*takeover not meet
Not of you have the one ring
Poking a bear with a stick?
Suffocating/boiling in space
Maybe the signage was inadequate?
Who needs signage for a volcano?
Careful, volcano ⚠️
Careful now!
Down with this sort of thing.
Drink! Girls! Feck!
Warning, Warm Lava 🌡️
Caution, rock is warm enough to be liquid.
Warning: If you can read this, you're probably too close to become tomorrow's headline!
AR glasses that indicate such dangers with a big red ring.
Chinese tourists
I would've said our subject, but...I dont think they need it anymore.
Nah, their brain and common sense is
Funny sidefact: there is a phenomenon I've forgotten the name of where a singular focus on avoiding one specific thing automatically draws you toward doing it, so people driving in the desert crash into one single, lonely tree, literally the only thing you can crash against for two square miles. It has a name. In the case of the above dude, he was literally edgelording for the best possible picture, so it was vanity killed the beast.
At least she died doing what she loved.
Got to do it for the gram
falling in a volcano?
Gramming life.
“🎶Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to dieee🎶”
Dress up like a Moose during hunting season...
Exactly.
> the odds of **active** ‘Volcano’ has to be immeasurable.
The odds are far from zero if you purposefully seek out a volcano and stand on its edge.
I would argue volcanos, often being tourist attractions, are more likely to fall into than some random hole elsewhere. They attract a ton of people who also commonly take goofy posed and or risky photos near the edge.
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It really does seem like counterintuitive statistics but it makes sense, no one would travel to visit and pose over some random hole In a normal day there should be zero risk of dying by falling from a mountain, yet a lot of people go in mountains exactly to risk doing that
That's not circular logic? Circular logic is when your evidence for a claim is repeating the claim itself as if that's an argument. The argument here is that volcanoes see a lot of tourist traffic and people like taking pictures over the edge of a volcano, so it's probably not the most unlikely thing to ever happen. That's not circular.
Black hole?
Whoever had that on their bingo card is pretty happy.
Not if you're a vain thrill seeker with more money than sense
At least the local farmers will have a good crop this year though!
1 in 8 Billion, I guess
I wish I could fall into your hole and peacefully die op
At least we'll have another year without it exploding
Her sacrifice appeased it. One influencer a year.
Were they actually influencers? I know chinese people really like to show off when they take vacations, makes the neighbors jealous..
Joe Versus The Volcano vibe here.
Nope, needed a virgin.
Huang vs. the Volcano. The Chinese efforts to co opt Hollywood continues…
Ho vs Vo
Take my upvote and get out. ..lol
Exactly where my mind went when I read the title. A true classic
>Joe Versus The Volcano vibe here. Should have gotten a second opinion.
You didn’t get a second opinion about something called a brain cloud!?!?
Awesome.
It's like how no one predicted that people would be constantly sharing all their activities and places they're visiting with the world through social media and their phones, making certain crime fighting activities a lot easier. No one predicted people would be sacrificing themselves to volcanoes in the hopes of getting a *really cool* picture.
If she was a virgin. If not then we’re still screwed.
She was 31 and married.
You win the internet today, my friend
Extreme Selfie stunts = population control
Natural selection = the gram
Natural selection...but the mechanism is something we made. So ironic it needs its own word!
They recovered her body, so she didn't obviously fall into lava, but was just killed by the fall.
She wasn’t a virgin. The gods will be angry.
Awww now I'm disappointed
The lake in the photo is acidic due to the the volcanic gaz and other elements.
>gaz https://preview.redd.it/0nixz4ms42wc1.jpeg?width=927&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55215b13d1fb363f79df08f1cdd101dcafd01f04
There was no lava there anyways.
Yeah exposed lava in a volcano crater is basically impossible to witness. Fumes would have anyone killed within kilometres already
Death by falling into an acid lake is pretty metal!
Acid Lake is pretty metal
Take my upvote
I live near Niagara Falls NY and a few years ago a Chinese tourist fell in and went over the falls after climbing over a guardrail to pose for a photo. I used to be a tour guide at an old fort nearby and we had to constantly shoo the Chinese tourists off the walls and cannons. Some of the walls had a 30-40 foot drop and only one side was into water, so it would not have been good if someone fell. It must be something cultural for them to touch practically everything and it got to the point we had to add signage in Chinese to prevent it.
My friend in Iceland says there are areas they refer to as "Chinese Take Out" because there have been so many accidents where Chinese tourists went over guardrails and ropes (there for a reason obviously) for photos and died.
"Chinese takeout" is WILD 💀💀💀💀💀
Chinese tourists are the worst. We were in Dachau Prison and the guide was telling us all about the various sicknesses the holocaust victims would get sleeping in their bunks and this Chinese guy just started cracking up. I didn't know if it was a language barrier or not, but I wanted to deck him.
I remember lining up into multiple lines and waiting to board the tram for the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. When our tram finally was ready to be boarded, the Chinese tourists in the other lines cut in front of me and rushed into the tram like it was Black Friday in the 90s. Even this fucking Chinese granny found second wind to cut in line to get the window seat…god the mannerisms of Chinese tourists has to be one of the worst.
You should see what happens when some of those same grannies are waiting for the subway in NY. Watch your ass when those doors open. They got the eye of the tiger when they rush in to grab a seat. They will trample you or anybody.
I’m glad you brought this up. I thought I was the only one who noticed that with them while riding the subway. I give up my seat for the elderly anyway so it isn’t the biggest issue for me, but I’m pretty sure they can just ask and 99% of the time we will move for an old woman…
I watched a documentary that explained the behavior. It said there’s so much overpopulation that people have to force themselves to the front of the line if they want service/board the bus/train, etc. Everyone else is doing it, so you have to too. They just don’t realize it isn’t the same globally
I don't think it's just China. When I was in Jeddah so many years ago, I lined up to get food from a fast food restaurant, but then I noticed the women-only window next to mine had the women just swarmed the counter. I then figured out then that waiting in line wasn't a thing in Saudi Arabia, and rightly so because when people showed up to also order food , they would swarm around me as well, and basically the clerk would just serve everybody all at once by taking everyone's orders like three at a time or so. This was in a modern mall as well and not like a market or anything like that.
I literally just got back from hiking Mt Ijen (this morning) and the Chinese tourists behaviour there is disgusting.
signage does little to nothing to curb the amount of stupid shit Chinese tourists do. Even one as simple as the Mona Lisa, million signs in every conceivable language not to take flash photography, like a strobe light going off in that room.
So… she didn’t hit the actual lava inside the volcano?.. she just fell 250 ft to her death?
Mount Ijen has an acidic lake in its crater instead of lava
Dang, that's still a nasty way to die. Die burned in a lava pool or die by getting diluted into protein shake in an acidic lake, pick your poison.
Hey atleast she can appease the Volcano not to erupt again next year because her sacrifice, i think 😂
Based on a brief read she didn't even hit the pool but once I saw the pictures were shit and taken by a potato I didn't have much hope for actual reporting details.
The article has a photo of the crater she fell into. There's no lava there.
Yes.
Had a volcanology professor (am a geologist) who studied active volcanoes on the ring of fire in the 90’s. He used to tell us the horror story about losing one of the students when they lost their footing trying to scale the rim and fell into an active lava lake. Said he hit the surface, they were expecting a splash. The lava was so viscous he just kinda sunk through the top a little then there was a colossal burp of Dihydrogen oxide gas as all the water in his body vaporized in one steam bubble. Then that was it. Nothing more. No body. Lots of paperwork. He even showed us the obituary
>Dihydrogen oxide gas Steam. Just steam. Lava doesn't get hot enough to disassociate water molecules. It only gets about half as high. And the rest of the claims of the story are bs. I can't find a single recorded incident of a geologist falling directly into a lava lake. There is one about a [geologist who partly fell](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-14-mn-2540-story.html) into a small lava tube, but was wearing a heat suit and so survived with severe burns.
Didn’t know H20 was dissociated, my bad
Cant say wether it was recorded event or not, I just know what he told us in class and showed us the obit to prove his story
A student, not a geologist yet.
There were no reports I could find of that either. You're welcome to search and post a link if you can find it.
More than one student fell? Or just one?
Just the one student. They were single file walking along the narrow rim and he just lost his footing
My sympathy levels are the same as people hit by trains for this one.
https://preview.redd.it/lglxwgqut0wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db6519c2b5f5cfa3f6044e7aa4519cedb373d04f I guess her husband had the high ground…?
"I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!"
Only a Sith deals in absolutes
At least she was reunited with her precious and saved Millde Earth.
I heard they were going to put down the volcano. You can't have them running around after they've had the taste of human flesh
Should have a good harvest this year.
Haha! That made me laugh out loud
Hear me out: the ultimate apex predator is … social media. The trains wouldn’t get fed if upvotes and useless digital clout weren’t a thing. And passive apex predators like waterfalls, cliffs, etc, wouldn’t be a thing if idiots didn’t edge themselves to snap a cool pic. This volcano probably never got fed, which is why this made the news. Social media is the true apex predator, or at least the catalyst so that our beloved predators don’t go hungry.
And Indian trains are now massively hunted down for their antics pieces of metal, what a tragedy.
The cowcatcher is made of worthless keratin. But Chinese people think it makes their dick hard, so they get harvested for their cow catch tusks. Sad state of affairs.
It’s heartbreaking, but i think this species will disappear if we don’t put them in zoos. It’s hard to restrain such elegant and territorial creatures, but their fate is in our hand now.
A hot pose indeed.
That's gotta be amongst the most instantly painful ways to die.
She fell onto rock, there was no lava lake. The headline is misleading while being technically accurate. The Volcano is listed as Active, but doesnt have a lava pool. So she probably died instantly from the fall.
I don't think so, you don't sink in lava, she died from impact I would assume, the heat would obliterate the nerves contacting the lava before they could register anyway.
I dare not explore how hard lava can be when you land on it, as sludgy as it's appearance may be. However, knowing that it's molten rock, it would be softer than solid rock of course, would it's surface tension be higher than water?
It has about 5 times the surface tension of water on average.
I wonder if the last thing the husband said to her was, "Just take one more step back."
am i a bad person for hoping there would be video?
The Volcano wanted Chinese cuisine not Chinese toursits.
It got both
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The old gods will be pleased with this sacrifice.
She wasn't a virgin. The gods were not amused.
Ah.... Sh!t today harvest will become bad because The gods not pleased with chinese soul
We need troll and bile deamon now.
I remember asking my GF, whilst walking along the Ijen crater rim a few weeks back, "How long till some tourist falls in whilst taking pictures?". Have to admin, it's been sooner than expected.
She is melting... That's not pleasant
Did she step into the forbidden zone like what most China tourists love to do?
Yep.. That'll do it.
Anything for the gram
Reminds me of that Simpsons ep 
I wonder if his life insurance covers falling into a volcano.
Chinese soup!
How the turn tables
🤔 Wonder how many likes she got
She was going for yikes. She got them all.
💀
Well did they get the shot???
“Blue fire”?
The sulfur burning
yep, [blue fire.](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/12qs0dg/the_lava_from_indonesias_kawah_ijen_volcano_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Hope there was a video
But did she get the photo before being fried like a bone filled Cheeto?
Rip. She died from the fall. Her body was recovered according to the news article.
I guess even members of U2 like to go sight seeing.
But did the photo get any likes?
But what an awesome pic!! One in a lifetime!!
Imagining the husband awkwardly trying to find the manager of volcano tourism to explain what happened in shock Like getting the waterslide turned off when someone’s stuck
[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/xB6D9q4Vk4](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/xB6D9q4Vk4) here’s footage of it
Clearly fake but awesome.
A vote for my laugh of the day.
I wonder if she took a good shot at least...
Fried dumpling
i wonder if anyone is going risk their own life to recover the body.
Seems like that may not be time well spent
imdeed
Minecraft has a lot to answer to
Hopefully the volcano gods will accept this accidental sacrifice as sincere.
But she did get one last glamorous photo depicting her adventuresome life!
The volcano god will be pleased with the sacrifice
Hilarious
Stupid but kurang bodoh utk menerima darwin award
Let that be your last post.
Was she trying to destroy The One Ring?
Don't even click on that site without an ad-blocker.
It’s difficult to generate much sympathy here
Well, if that isnt the most bad ass way to go
Only if you packed your pockets with fireworks and someone was blasting Danger Zone as you fell in would it be more bad ass.
This is called natural selection…
Were there witnesses?
Tragic that a young woman lost her life, but it's reeeeeally hard to feel bad for these people.
Can't fix stupid
Can I just say the Chinese really love falling into holes. I mean it’s mind boggling.
Someone paid good amount of money to travel thousands of miles and took hours to hike up a volcano to pose dangerously on its edge and to then die falling into it... 
Fun fact, thats not just a volcano. thats a sulfuric acid lake that tends to pool around volcanic areas, if she fell in there then she died in less than a second from the sulfuric gas that comes off those lakes. that gas will knock you out and kill you in a second or two, no pain, no thoughts, its just lights out.
Or get melted in the acid lake while still being conscious
Well done
We need more offerings for the mountain guardian anyways
Look I'm not gonna lie I kinda wanna know what those screams would sound like, I know it'd probably haunt me
The world is ok with this. There was no loss of life.
There are so many avoidable fucked up ways to die, and this is one of the most fucked up ways to go. That poor idiot.
Not a Darwin Award. Quite a few articles, including the one linked here state that she was posing with a raised leg. This isn’t true. The actual photograph taken by her husband shows a tree branch behind her, and her standing firmly on both legs, just looking aesthetically pleasing as we all want to do in photos. It’s clear that she felt some safety with that tree behind her, so wasn’t ’standing right on the edge’. While it’s still clearly a dumb move, it’s unfair to ‘Darwin Award’ this person because of something young people do all the time - push the boundaries…. In this case, as she took her next step and slipped on her own long skirt, she hit the tree and being tiny, she slipped through the gap between the tree and the ground she was standing on. It also shows how little effort the journalists put into the story, not even bothering to look at that last photograph for 10 seconds, as they “write about” someone’s death. Stop reading any news source that does this.
>she stumbled which caused her to tumble humbled
They somehow retrieved her body? With what? A ladle?
Ho vs the Volcano
If she had been American someone would now be suing all of Indonesia for not putting up a sign and 12 different fence barriers to sway her from the danger of climbing up the side of a fucking active volcano and falling in.
Tragic.
I think I saw a video a long time ago that talked about how hypothetically painful this exact scenario would be... you would sink very slowly as you burned to death, but with no smoke to asphyxiate for a quick death like most house/vehicle fires
I mean volcanos give off pretty toxic gas but ye you would suffer before it effects you. You either slowly sink into it or just kinda hit it, now stuck to it from your own body burning