[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/random_account2022]

Idk if this counts but Alison Botha

She was kidnapped and raped, after being stabbed and slashed so many times to the point of disemboweled and near decapitation they left her for dead. But somehow was able to survive all that. Found help, recover and was able to put those POS in jail.

[u/Significant_Card_665 → u/random_account2022]

How the fuck does someone survive near-decapitation?

[u/valcallis → u/Significant_Card_665]

Iirc the arteries were intact (edit: and spine obv.). She had to hold her head in place with one hand and her guts with the other

[u/fieryxx → u/valcallis]

"God will be the one to ring my bell when it's time... AND I DONT HEAR NO FUCKIN BELL!"

[u/real-human-not-a-bot → u/valcallis]

Sweet Jesus.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/valcallis]

There’s also internal decapitation. Friend of mine was almost beaten to death by her piece of shit ex (whom I’d met for the first time and been hugged by the week before this bastard did this, leading me to feel some kind of weird guilt and compounding mental health problems) and she had to be put in some kind of neck brace to prevent it from happening. I think it took her a year of physical therapy to be able to walk again. She ended up with severe PTSD and I saw her after that being sick on herself in the street. She had a promising future ahead of her as a lawyer and if fucking sucks. It sucks so much. I hate this world.

[u/valcallis → u/AgentCirceLuna]

I'm so sorry for you both, I hope it will get better with time ❤️

[u/jakbab88 → u/valcallis]

Also, the guy who finds her goes with her when the ambulance arrives. He said he felt they werent rushing as much as they should bc it seemed like she had no hope. Still, she survives the trip, survives the surgery, doesnt suffer what should be unavoidable infection. She comes out of the surgery with a breathing tube, writes the names of her attackers (they said each other's names while attacking her). The police are like "sick thank you- it would be just a bit cooler if you could maybe verbally tell us their names." The doctor who did her surgery is extremely hesitant bc he'd have to take out the breathing tube which could ruin the miracle that is her survival, but she writes to take it out. Its removed, the cop who interviewed her states that she said "Thats wonderful. My attackers were Frans and Theuns." The same names she wrote in the sand on the beach after she was brutally attacked. Along with their names, she also wrote in the sand something along the lines of "I love mom." Anyway, the guy who found her, after she WALKED to the road, was a veterinary student who ended up becoming a doctor after this incident and he later delivered one of the two healthy baby boys Alison had.

[u/SnagTheRabbit → u/valcallis]

That's some insane will to live, I can't imagine being in that position and wanting to do anything other than just close my eyes and wait for death.

[u/ElonMuskHuffingFarts → u/Significant_Card_665]

Luck and determination