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Over a lifetime, one in five of us will face the prospect of risking our own lives to save the life of someone else. Most of us won't do it. This book studies twenty stories of everyday people who did. Basically, the book is about making-and surviving-that choice. It's about how to decide quickly what to do when someone else's life hangs by a thread, and how to take action so that both of you will survive. The fundamental question that this book tries to answer is this: When lives are...
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Over a lifetime, one in five of us will face the prospect of risking our own lives to save the life of someone else. Most of us won't do it. This book studies twenty stories of everyday people who did. Basically, the book is about making-and surviving-that choice. It's about how to decide quickly what to do when someone else's life hangs by a thread, and how to take action so that both of you will survive. The fundamental question that this book tries to answer is this: When lives are at stake, is there a repeatable process that will give a lay rescuer better odds for success? Recent catastrophes (Haiti, Indonesian and Japanese Tsunamis, Joplin, Sandy...) all remind us that we cannot choose the time and place when the worst happens. When it does, the lives of hundreds-perhaps even thousands-of our friends and neighbors will be totally dependent on those of us who are willing to help, because regular first-responders will be overwhelmed. Are you willing to be there for another? Will anyone be there for you? Using both successful and failed rescue attempts from the past as examples, this book shows the reader how to make each of these answers a resounding "Yes!"