wutchamacallem: It's actually whom: Forgetting to hook in is actually a common accident in hang gliding.

Perhaps there should be a minimum IQ requirement.

High IQs do not guarantee success.

GoodyearPimp: I'm just going to say it: This is one of the more awesome ways to die. Almost no warning, a few seconds before you black out and done. Way better than heart disease or AIDS.

I imagine that for those few brief moments of freefall before she collided with the ground, she never felt so alive.

Erebus1954: I wonder how it was decided who gets the job of extracting the memory card from a fresh turd.

I'm suddenly much happier with my job.



It's always the newest guy on shift.

wutchamacallem: It's actually whom: Forgetting to hook in is actually a common accident in hang gliding.

Perhaps there should be a minimum IQ requirement.

There is a strict entrance exam to the world of hang gliding. Very strict.

Just to be clear here, she wasn't a tourist.. here's some more about Lena from a different link:

""It's such a shame," recalled Godinez-Avila's former SFU professor Anil Hira. "She was just starting out, she was extremely successful, someone who walks on air, very light-hearted but extremely capable. It's the last person you would want to see this happen to."

Godinez-Avila moved to Canada in 2003 from Monterrey, Mexico. She studied at SFU and then took a job with the B.C. Winter Games Secretariat. That turned into a full-time job at the B.C. Ministry of Environment.

"By all accounts, Lenami was well known in government and clearly a bright light," recalled Environment Minister Terry Lake in a tribute at the legislature this week. "I can only imagine the unspeakable grief that her parents and family must be feeling today."

She also volunteered for the Vancouver Food Bank, was a cyclist and played ultimate Frisbee. Louman-Gardiner said she was quiet but brilliant - and even a little mischievous.

"She loved doing new things, and when you least expected it snowshoeing, she would pelt you in the back of the head with a snowball, and there was Lenami, giggling away," Louman-Gardiner recalled.

Godinez-Avila had wanted to help other Mexican women succeed as she had in Canada.

"It was something she had expressed in her life to her partner," said friend Katherine Louman-Gardiner. "She was hoping to create a scholarship fund for students who hailed from Mexico - hard workers, really dedicated to her community."

Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.
"

I wonder if the boyfriend is getting his money back from Groupon?

strutin: Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.

FTFL: "We've specified that the award is to be for a female international student who has demonstrated passion for sustainability and volunteerism within the Mexican-Canadian community..." at the little college she attended.

Not going to be a lot of competition for that award.

Did she drop any good loot?

strutin: Just to be clear here, she wasn't a tourist.. here's some more about Lena from a different link:

""It's such a shame," recalled Godinez-Avila's former SFU professor Anil Hira. "She was just starting out, she was extremely successful, someone who walks on air, very light-hearted but extremely capable. It's the last person you would want to see this happen to."

Godinez-Avila moved to Canada in 2003 from Monterrey, Mexico. She studied at SFU and then took a job with the B.C. Winter Games Secretariat. That turned into a full-time job at the B.C. Ministry of Environment.

"By all accounts, Lenami was well known in government and clearly a bright light," recalled Environment Minister Terry Lake in a tribute at the legislature this week. "I can only imagine the unspeakable grief that her parents and family must be feeling today."

She also volunteered for the Vancouver Food Bank, was a cyclist and played ultimate Frisbee. Louman-Gardiner said she was quiet but brilliant - and even a little mischievous.

"She loved doing new things, and when you least expected it snowshoeing, she would pelt you in the back of the head with a snowball, and there was Lenami, giggling away," Louman-Gardiner recalled.

Godinez-Avila had wanted to help other Mexican women succeed as she had in Canada.

"It was something she had expressed in her life to her partner," said friend Katherine Louman-Gardiner. "She was hoping to create a scholarship fund for students who hailed from Mexico - hard workers, really dedicated to her community."

Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.
"

Donations? Yeah, we should totally send money to a dead woman who has no need of it. I wonder which loving relative is pocketing them.

Nrokreffefp: strutin: Just to be clear here, she wasn't a tourist.. here's some more about Lena from a different link:

""It's such a shame," recalled Godinez-Avila's former SFU professor Anil Hira. "She was just starting out, she was extremely successful, someone who walks on air, very light-hearted but extremely capable. It's the last person you would want to see this happen to."

Godinez-Avila moved to Canada in 2003 from Monterrey, Mexico. She studied at SFU and then took a job with the B.C. Winter Games Secretariat. That turned into a full-time job at the B.C. Ministry of Environment.

"By all accounts, Lenami was well known in government and clearly a bright light," recalled Environment Minister Terry Lake in a tribute at the legislature this week. "I can only imagine the unspeakable grief that her parents and family must be feeling today."

She also volunteered for the Vancouver Food Bank, was a cyclist and played ultimate Frisbee. Louman-Gardiner said she was quiet but brilliant - and even a little mischievous.

"She loved doing new things, and when you least expected it snowshoeing, she would pelt you in the back of the head with a snowball, and there was Lenami, giggling away," Louman-Gardiner recalled.

Godinez-Avila had wanted to help other Mexican women succeed as she had in Canada.

"It was something she had expressed in her life to her partner," said friend Katherine Louman-Gardiner. "She was hoping to create a scholarship fund for students who hailed from Mexico - hard workers, really dedicated to her community."

Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.
"

Donations? Yeah, we should totally send money to a dead woman who has no need of it. I wonder which loving relative is pocketing them.

Don't be so crass, the money will go for an important cause which is being fabricated right now. Why do you hate progressive women?

People sometimes do nonsensical things when in crisis. The guy probably feels pretty horrible over what happened, and will likely never forgive himself.

This feels like rich people problems.
Don't earn lots of money, get bored with life because it's so easy, choose stupid dangerous thrills that make you "feel alive" again and things like this won't happen.

AbbeySomeone:
Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.

Donations? Yeah, we should totally send money to a dead woman who has no need of it. I wonder which loving relative is pocketing them.

Don't be so crass, the money will go for an important cause which is being fabricated right now. Why do you hate progressive women?

Or, for those of us that read the preceeding paragraph:

"She was hoping to create a scholarship fund for students who hailed from Mexico - hard workers, really dedicated to her community."


And, for anyone that visited the linked site:

"In honour of her passion and our love for her, we've worked to set up a registered award at Simon Fraser University."
"Donations are collected directly by Simon Fraser University, and all donations of $10 or more will receive a tax receipt."

But, yeah, you guys are right, this totally sounds like a get-rich-quick scheme on the part of her family. Way to crack the case.

Idiots.

Bacontastesgood: GoodyearPimp: I'm just going to say it: This is one of the more awesome ways to die. Almost no warning, a few seconds before you black out and done. Way better than heart disease or AIDS.

I think I'll go with Detective Lennie Briscoe's take on how he wanted to die: "In my 23rd century spacesuit on one of the moons of Jupiter".

Seriously, though, sudden deaths are a biatch for those left behind. One of the nice things about slow deaths like cancer is you can get your affairs in order and say goodbye to everyone.

Yeah, speaking as someone who has lost a very, very, very good friend to cancer.....there isn't a nice farking thing about it. Sure we had time to say goodbye, reminisce about the good old days, all that jazz.....he still farking died, and it was no consolation to any of us after he died that he didn't go in 15 seconds. Whether you die quickly or slowly, you die, and that's never a positive.

Coco LaFemme: Bacontastesgood: GoodyearPimp: I'm just going to say it: This is one of the more awesome ways to die. Almost no warning, a few seconds before you black out and done. Way better than heart disease or AIDS.

I think I'll go with Detective Lennie Briscoe's take on how he wanted to die: "In my 23rd century spacesuit on one of the moons of Jupiter".

Seriously, though, sudden deaths are a biatch for those left behind. One of the nice things about slow deaths like cancer is you can get your affairs in order and say goodbye to everyone.

Yeah, speaking as someone who has lost a very, very, very good friend to cancer.....there isn't a nice farking thing about it. Sure we had time to say goodbye, reminisce about the good old days, all that jazz.....he still farking died, and it was no consolation to any of us after he died that he didn't go in 15 seconds. Whether you die quickly or slowly, you die, and that's never a positive.

That's why I never plan on dying.

/nanotechnology FTW

wutchamacallem: It's actually whom: Forgetting to hook in is actually a common accident in hang gliding.

Perhaps there should be a minimum IQ requirement.

There is, only for the second and subsequent flights.

She bought her ticket; she knew what she was getting into.

I say, let her splat.

Bacontastesgood: GoodyearPimp: I'm just going to say it: This is one of the more awesome ways to die. Almost no warning, a few seconds before you black out and done. Way better than heart disease or AIDS.

I think I'll go with Detective Lennie Briscoe's take on how he wanted to die: "In my 23rd century spacesuit on one of the moons of Jupiter".

Seriously, though, sudden deaths are a biatch for those left behind. One of the nice things about slow deaths like cancer is you can get your affairs in order and say goodbye to everyone.

Or, you can linger on, slowly sucking up your finances that your surviving spouse could have used, causing untold stress and suffering to your caregivers. Seriously, who wants to be the person depending on their kids to change their diapers or feed them? Who looks forward to doing that for their parents? Basically being a drain on the entire system because Long Term Care will eat up any saving you did have and you'll eventually depend on taxpayer funded Medicare and Medicaid. Hey, maybe you'll be lucky and in a coma, but more likely you'll be trapped in some quasi-hell of dementia and pain. Unable to communicate the horror of what is happening to you and enduring the pain of it all because the medical industry won't give you enough meds to be comfortable as they fear getting a 90 yr old cancer patient "addicted".

http://nymag.com/news/features/parent-health-care-2012-5/

Yeah, that sounds much better. Medical science can prolong our life these days. But to what end?

Hang gliding... so worth it

My guess is that video shows that once he realized she was not secure, and started clawing at him for her life, he may have helped her let go. Self presurvation.

GoodyearPimp: I'm just going to say it: This is one of the more awesome ways to die. Almost no warning, a few seconds before you black out and done. Way better than heart disease or AIDS.

Are those the only 3 choices available in north America these days?

ShannonKW: You die as you lived. It is fitting that people remember you for how you lived. Your life with them is your eulogy.

As someone contemplating their own mortality, this made me smile.
Thanks.

rka: Yeah, that sounds much better. Medical science can prolong our life these days. But to what end?

That's an excellent article, but if given the original choice, of dying of AIDS or heart-disease as compared to a hang-gliding accident, I'd choose the long route. First off, at least with heart-disease, chances are I'd be at least as old as I am now. I don't care how I die if the difference is being 21 or 51. Second, ending your life prematurely with a few seconds of abject terror is not something most people would volunteer for.

/send grandma hang-gliding

swahnhennessy: Second, ending your life prematurely with a few seconds of abject terror is not something most people would volunteer for.

But then again, neither is 5 years of dementia and cancer pain.

ShannonKW: You die as you lived.

screaming and pulling off people shoes?

/is that new kind of 'thing' with the kids these days or something?

notmtwain: As God as my witness, I thought Mexicans could fly...



/aaaaaaaand done in one.

Scene: Hang gliders and emergency workers rush to where Lenami Godinez-Avila's body was found after she plummeted 1,000 feet to her death last Saturday

POCAHONT..

manitobamadman: My guess is that video shows that once he realized she was not secure, and started clawing at him for her life, he may have helped her let go. Self presurvation.

Good job we have digital technology. A few years ago he'd have had to swallow a roll of super-8.

strutin: Just to be clear here, she wasn't a tourist.. here's some more about Lena from a different link:

""It's such a shame," recalled Godinez-Avila's former SFU professor Anil Hira. "She was just starting out, she was extremely successful, someone who walks on air, very light-hearted but extremely capable. It's the last person you would want to see this happen to."

Apparently not.

strutin: Just to be clear here, she wasn't a tourist.. here's some more about Lena from a different link:

""It's such a shame," recalled Godinez-Avila's former SFU professor Anil Hira. "She was just starting out, she was extremely successful, someone who walks on air, very light-hearted but extremely capable. It's the last person you would want to see this happen to."

This is probably the exact wrong time to use those words to describe her...

It's probably a shiatty video anyway.

Nrokreffefp:
""It's such a shame," recalled Godinez-Avila's former SFU professor Anil Hira. "She was just starting out, she was extremely successful, someone who walks on air..."

Obviously not.

I hope I go like my grandfather...quietly in my sleep... and not screaming in terror... like his passengers.

God-is-a-Taco: I'll ask again: Who could you be?

Believe it or not, I'm just me.

Nicholas Urfe: strutin: Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.

FTFL: "We've specified that the award is to be for a female international student who has demonstrated passion for sustainability and volunteerism within the Mexican-Canadian community..." at the little college she attended.

Not going to be a lot of competition for that award.

Simon Fraser University Students: 35,204.

Yeah, sure sounds like a little college to me too.

LavenderWolf: There is a strict entrance exam to the world of hang gliding. Very strict.

uh-huh

Link

CliChe Guevara: ShannonKW: You die as you lived.

screaming and pulling off people shoes?

/is that new kind of 'thing' with the kids these days or something?

Don't judge me!

change1211: Nicholas Urfe: strutin: Donations will be accepted at www.rememberinglena.com.

FTFL: "We've specified that the award is to be for a female international student who has demonstrated passion for sustainability and volunteerism within the Mexican-Canadian community..." at the little college she attended.

Not going to be a lot of competition for that award.

Simon Fraser University Students: 35,204.

Yeah, sure sounds like a little college to me too.

SFU courses are held at small colleges now. Not saying she was not attending but in BC you can take the courses in small colleges that are credited by universities.

I came close to death earlier this year because of a kidney stone. People in my condition had a 25-50% mortality rate. It was... very anti climatic. They didn't even bother telling me how bad I was until after it was all over and fixed. Death is a strange and unglorious thing.

/CSB

Was there no other recent article on this incident worthy of the Follow Up tag? This article's from 2 weeks ago.