If I should die while diving.

[nkw5]

UP, you are truly "the Voice of Reason" as you claim. Thank you for sharing your wise words with us all. I'm sure they will be quoted again and again as situations come up.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

You guys think too much.

I just dive

 

[baydive20]

I just want to become a reef.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Please feel free to copy and/or modify *If I should die while diving*.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

If I should die while diving, divvy up my gear among my friends and leave my body down there for the crabs. I figure, I've enjoyed them often enough ... payback's only fair ... :browsmile

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[theskull]

I would just add:

If I should die while diving . . . don't sue anybody! I knew and gladly accepted the risks involved. I will surely come back to haunt you if you disregard this request.

theskull

 

[Rick Inman]

I would just add:

If I should die while diving . . . don't sue anybody! I knew and gladly accepted the risks involved. I will surely come back to haunt you if you disregard this request.

theskull

Bingo.

I read this to my wife the first time I saw it, but I'm adding the "no sue" addendum.

And please give complete amnesty to my buddy, so he will speak frankly of the event without fear or recourse or slander.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

UP: Well written, and THANK YOU.

I'd add the "don't sue" clause, and, in the buddy clause, change "will probably" to
"may". There are a substantial fraction of diving deaths that are "deaths while diving"
and there's not a darn thing the buddy can do.

One of the biggest problems with diving is that the annual death rate is low enough that
it hasn't really been analyized to death. With automobiles, we all know stuff like don't
drive drunk, etc. With diving, we don't get that analysis. The DAN annual report is
a step in that direction, but doesn't really go far enough.

 

[Marvel]

Bingo.

I read this to my wife the first time I saw it, but I'm adding the "no sue" addendum.

And please give complete amnesty to my buddy, so he will speak frankly of the event without fear or recourse or slander.

Those are exactly the modifications I had in mind, Rick.

 

[baitedstorm]

The funny thing is, I take so much comfort reading this and remembering recently loss friends. I know this was at least they way one of them felt!!!! Thank you UP for sharing! Very nicely done!