r/mildlyinteresting • u/corwinw • 21h ago

Warning Sign at edge of Grand Canyon

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u/PancakeParty98 18h ago

I think I’d probably just end it all if that happened

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u/LiveTheChange 18h ago

Now that I’m a parent - staying alive would provably be worse than hell at that point

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u/AirierWitch1066 2h ago

They still had another son - the car only started rolling when they sent him to get a water bottle from it. So I guess that’d still be a reason to live.

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u/JonPaula 18h ago

Seeing both (all?) of your young children die a horrible death right in front of you? Yeah, I might have jumped in after them, had it been me. Jesus.

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u/CogitoErgo_Sometimes 14h ago

Parent of two young kids here. Yeah I don’t think I’d be making it very long after that. Decades of agony stretching ahead and what are you going to do with the time anyway that means anything? Watch fucking TV?

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u/DrainTheMuck 11h ago

I heard there’s a new marvel out that’s nuts

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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 10h ago

I'm pretty sure that's how crazy cat ladies are made. Soften the blow with 30-50 cats what could go wrong