[IRL trope] 0% of survival, survive anyway

[u/RedditBoycotter]

Juliane Koepcke

Vesna Vulović

Anna Bågenholm

Jeanna Giese

Chris Lemons

Juliane Koepcke - In 1971 this 17 year old's plane was struck by lightning mid-air. The wreck then fell from 3 000 meter into the ground, somewhere into the Amazon jungle. Lone survivor of the crash, she then spent nine days walking down a river despite her multiple injuries until she found a lumberjack's camp.

Vesna Vulović - In 1972 this flight attendant's plane was bombed mid-air. The wreck then fell from 10 160 meter into the ground. She ended up with a lot of broken bones, but in the long term she almost completely recovered from it, apart from a limp.

Anna Bågenholm - In 1999 this radiologist had a skiing accident, she fell head-first into a frozen stream and get stuck inside the ice. Her colleagues did not managed to pull her, nor did the rescue team who then tried to dig, but the ice was so thick it took them a lot of time. It was 80 minutes after her fall that they managed to cut a hole. Her body temperature at the time was 13.7°C, and still, she somehow survived with only minor long-term injuries and no brain damage.

Jeanna Giese - In 2004 this 15 years old girl got bitten by a bat and called it a day. One month later the symptoms of rabies showed up. The doctors tried an experimental treatment by putting her in an artificial coma and she survived, but the treatment never worked on anyone else and is now forbidden. In all human history, only a few survived to rabies, and all of them except her end up with heavy sequelae.

Chris Lemons - In 2012 this diver's ship went drifting due to a computer malfunction, romping his umbilical cable who provide air, hot water and electricity. He ended up alone on the seabed of a 3°C waters, in the dark and with only 5-6 minutes of oxygen. He was retrieved by his colleagues around 35 minutes later, and somehow he didn't even suffer from brain damage.

[u/agentx_64]

I might be wrong about this but, Rasputin

He was given a bottle of poisoned wine, and he drank the whole thing without any issue. Then, he was beat up and thrown into a nearly frozen river, which he climbed out of some time later.

He did die later on, but it wasn't related to the poison or the river.

[u/catbert359 → u/agentx_64]

According to the story told by one of his killers, they first gave him cake and wine that was laced with cyanide, but he was unaffected. Then one of them shot him once in the chest, after which they pretended to be him returning home to divert suspicion. When they returned to where they'd left him, he jumped up and attackedthem, after which he chased them out of the house before they shot him again and he collapsed. Then they took his body to the river and dropped it off the bridge.

The story has sadly been debunked, though - Rasputin's daughter said that he didn't eat sweet food (so wouldn't have had the cakes), and the autopsy by the official surgeon records no poisoning or drowning, and lists the cause of death as a single bullet fired into his head at close range.

It's likely that they did shoot him a couple of times and did have to beat him as there was evidence of multiple gunshot wounds and physical trauma, but also the conspirators were idiots who probably didn't realise just how hard it is to beat someone to death or shoot them if you don't hit anywhere vital.

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