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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those that have WaPo, I thought this editorial published in the wake of the eruption was interesting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-tourists-take-their-lives-into-their-own-hands/2019/12/22/668a30d8-2342-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html

The author, a professor at NYU, writes about how proximity to danger is marketed as attractive, but there is little discussion of the risk the tourists will be taking, just a blanket assumption of “everyone’s been fine before.” On a family trip, his 8 year old son Owen died while whitewater rafting.

(after reading this op-ed, I got the author’s book from the library. it’s an excellent account of the trip, including the dynamic of attractive-danger/hidden-risks, and his and his surviving family’s reaction to his son’s death. The book is called Disaster Falls, the name of the stretch of river where his son died. this is a free-to-access article from the author’s college alumni magazine covering some of the same ground: https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/disaster-falls)[/quote]

Thank you for posting this.  I recently lost a child.  It is very meaningful.[/quote]

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