Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't understand the mindset of a rescuer, OP. My husband was one of those, a long time ago, during and after med school. He was responsible for medical repatriation, rode in helicopters to extract victims from ravines, etc... Such people have a need for external "hero" validation. They WANT to rescue you. They want to save lives. Most of the time, there's no judgment on what you did that caused you to end up like this.

You are not imposing on anyone by going out and needing to be rescued. The rescue teams are there to help. Obviously, it's not cool for anyone to not do their due diligence, and need to be rescued because they were not prepared enough or did something foolish. But a lot of people who need rescue are victims of adverse circumstances, not their own foolishness.

Even if the labor is free, the resources are most certainly not.

I posted earlier about my SAR rescue. The resources will be spent no matter what.

If someone dies because they hiked the Grand Canyon in the summer, that body needs to be recovered. Even if the trail is closed all summer, it reopens in the fall. You can’t have people now hiking a trail littered with decomposing bodies.

So, better to rescue a live person, than have to spend MORE money later recovering the remains identifying them, etc.

Plus, family and friends will try to do their own rescue and now you have the potential for multiple bodies.

It’s really just cheaper to save them. Denying rescue is kicking the can down the road.

Also, a lot of the resources are being paid for already. My BF is a helicopter pilot, and SAR is just one small part of his job. He also helps with law enforcement, transporting important people, public education programs, military recruitment, etc. Like a firefighter, he’s basically paid to sit around full time for the handful of times a week he’s needed. So he’s getting paid regardless of if someone is rescued or not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't understand the mindset of a rescuer, OP. My husband was one of those, a long time ago, during and after med school. He was responsible for medical repatriation, rode in helicopters to extract victims from ravines, etc... Such people have a need for external "hero" validation. They WANT to rescue you. They want to save lives. Most of the time, there's no judgment on what you did that caused you to end up like this.

You are not imposing on anyone by going out and needing to be rescued. The rescue teams are there to help. Obviously, it's not cool for anyone to not do their due diligence, and need to be rescued because they were not prepared enough or did something foolish. But a lot of people who need rescue are victims of adverse circumstances, not their own foolishness.

Even if the labor is free, the resources are most certainly not.

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Anonymous wrote:With this reasoning, we shouldn’t send in the EMTs when the driver is speeding.

And we should tell health insurance not to cover treatment when it's a smoker who gets lung cancer. Quite the slippery slope you get there when you decide who is "worthy" of help.