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The Hamas attack that left Israeli-Canadian Netta Epstein dead was chronicled in his phone messages with his mother.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago

Wow, what an honourable way to go if you must. He traded unlikely survival with certain death and saved his girlfriend in the process. I feel bad for the mom, but still I don't know how many would be as brave as Netta to do that, even if you had adrenaline going.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 11 points 1 year ago

Good man, protecting those around him.🫑

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 11 points 1 year ago

Those text messages.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Senseless violence

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

PSA: Don't throw yourself on grenades. Lay flat on the ground with your legs facing the grenade.

[–] AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Genuinely asking, how is that any better? And really, if you were trying to stop fragmentation from killing other people in a room wouldn't your actual core do a better job of that then your legs?

[–] SandroHc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Different advice for different goals. If your goal is to survive, you want your vitals to be protected. If you want others to survive, might as well use your muscle and fat to absorb some of the kinetic energy.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 9 points 1 year ago

The idea is obviously for everyone to lay flat with their legs facing the grenade, not just one person. If there's just you and one other person just force them to the ground. If you live in a dangerous place explain it to them beforehand and maybe even practice.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

that then your legs

Well, not one THEN the other. It's a single blast and it's too quick to change positions.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

His goal wasnt to survive the blast, it was to protect the people around them so they could survive the blast.

Id love to a mark Rober on that. Will it actually stop fragments and enough of the shock wave or will they just go through you anyway?

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Very tragic way to go out.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

What a bad ass. "Oh shit we're all going to die!" "ME FIRST!"