56 points

This just kept getting sadder and sadder, RIP

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Holy fuck is that depressing… former Olympian contender who was exiled from her home nation due to her political beliefs… became an Uber driver in Miami and then a food server in Los Vegas, at 50, before she choked to death at her solo apartment and was only found because her place of employment reported her missing. Holy fuck.

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Thanks for saving me a click. Holy fuck indeed, RIP.

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Exactly. I’m not an Olympian… I’ll never see the money that goes into a campaign to compete there. But, how crushing is my future at 50 going to be? If this Olympian contender got treated that way? How is my (dying) middle class, unfit ass going to survive in our dystopian future?

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Slam down on a chair or countertop if you are choking alone. Make sure you hit your diaphragm. It may save.

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What might it save??? The suspension is killing me!

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25 points

Save your game, then you can reload to before you died.

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At a point when you’re already choking to death?

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5 points

Some cash, ambulance is expensive

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And do it as hard as you can, you might only have 1 shot at it.

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Thanks for the clear instruction.
Incidentally choking alone reads like some kind of euphemism.

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That dude was eerily excited

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5 points

Absolutely love the 30s ad before the video

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It’s wild to me that the Heimlich Maneuver wasn’t invented until the 70s

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And the guy who invented it didn’t ever have to use it for decades afterwards, it was purely theoretical to him.

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For those of you who thought, gee who else has…

Ray Ewry (USA) - A track and field athlete who competed in the early 20th century. Ewry is reported to have died in 1937 by choking on food.

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It kind of makes a perverse sort of sense. As an athlete (at least of the cyclist sort), you need a huge amount of calories and you also are all about speed. Putting those two together is definitely a risk.

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Did he take the jab? -Your one aunt on facebook

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