Famous last words

• Are you sure the power is off?
• don't be superstitious.
• Double dare me.
• Help!
• He's probably just hibernating.
• Hey, watch this!
• I'll get a world record for this.
• I'm making a citizen's arrest.
• I've seen this done on TV.
• I wonder where the mother bear is.
• That's odd.
• That stuff only happens in the movies.
• The odds of that happening have to be a million to one.
• These are the good kind of mushrooms.
• This doesn't taste right.
• Well, we've made it this far.
• what does this button do?
• What duck?
• I think it's dead.
• It's only a little one.
• Does this go any faster?
• No, Tony, I don't have any money.
• I built it myself.
• I don't need a helmet.

You may laugh at some of these, but it's lack of common sense that can kill.

I took a wilderness first aid course a couple weeks ago, and when you're in an emergency situation and you're in a remote area with no way to get immediate help there's three levels of a situation.

1. Bad
2. Very bad
3. Too bad

There's only so much someone can do in the wilderness to help if you get injured or suffer a medical emergency. So, you better hope that your injury or condition doesn't fall into the last category.

An example is if you get bit in the but by a poisonous snake. You're last words are going to be, "I've been bit in the ass; you've got to suck the poison out." If it was me out there with you, my response is going to be, "That's just too bad." ;)

(To be socially conscious, I just want to point out that sucking out the poison isn't actually how you treat a snake bite.)