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MP Shocker: Man Survives Tree Fall, Dies Hours Later In Hospital Lift Mishap
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2026
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only hours after he had survived a fall from a tree while collecting firewood.
Who collects firewood up in the tree. And high enough up to have the fall almost kill him?
It's not like firewood grows on trees
Any fall can kill, even tripping over your feet.
As for "why look up in the tree" because depending on the area, the ground might be picked clean of deadwood, and even if it's not, any deadwood stuck in branches would be much more dry than the stuff on the ground.
Can't say it's the smartest move, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Dead blokes, I reckon.
If the tree doesn't get ya..nature, uhh.. finds a way.
People outside your sphere of consciousness.
When I die, I hope it involves a comedic series of events and I'm still present enough to appreciate the situation in my final moments.
I knew somebody with a spinal injury who had an incident in a medical equipment lift, he wouldn't trust the damn things with an inch of his body, so he hired people like me capable of lifting them wherever they needed to go: bed, toilet, wheelchair, examination table. The proper form is a hand on a special belt and a hand under their arm, have them wrap their arms around you from above so that you don't have to worry about loss of efficiency from leverage.
The world needs more able bodied people participating in healthcare.
EDIT: Different kind of lift
For clarity sake, the article seems to be using the term lift to refer to an elevator. The article mentions it was to be used to change floors. They often use UK English in India since it was colonized at one point.
I work in 911 dispatch, I'm always a little amazed at how many calls I get for lift assists. Not for a patient that fell and hurt themselves, not for someone who weighs 300+lbs, it's just that no one there can apparently help an uninjured, 100lb old lady up off the floor or to stand up from the chair she's sitting in.
Now granted, sometimes it's another 100lb old lady calling, or someone with other disabilities, and they genuinely can't do it. But just as often it's a reasonably young and apparently healthy, able-bodied person, and most shocking to me it's sometimes a nursing home or other facility like that where you'd really think they'd be prepared to handle something like that in-house.
I know there's proper technique and equipment involved, and in some cases theres a lot of liability issues at play, but man It's pretty wild to me that so many people and facilities are either unable or unwilling to just pick someone up.
Also, from all of the calls for falls and lift assists I've taken, I've started telling my wife that if I ever fall and can't get up to just leave me on the floor. Gravity has spoken, I'm to be a floor-person from then on. Just slide a skateboard under me and let me scoot around on it. I have some people who call almost every day, and sometimes multiple times a day because they've fallen and can't get up, and I really don't want that for myself.
For clarity sake, the article seems to be using the term lift to refer to an elevator. The article mentions it was to be used to change floors. They often use UK English in India since it was colonized at one point.
This obviously doesn't affect your experience, just mentioning for your knowledge. The guy was apparently in a stretcher and they got on the elevator to go to a different floor.
Yeah I did get that from the article, I was more building on the comment I replied to.
But I do appreciate it, those little dialect differences can trip people up, like I've talked to a surprising amount of British/Australian/etc. people seem to think that when Americans talk about peanut butter and jelly, that we're talking about putting a gelatine dessert (like Jell-O) on our sandwiches, because that's what they call "jelly" (for anyone just now learning that's not what we mean, what we call "jelly" is sort of like a pulp-less jam)
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