That's a tragic ending but perhaps less agonizing than the choking suffocation caused by breathing hot sulfurous ash like so many of those poor folks.
The pyroclastic flow from the 79 AD Vesuvius eruption was hot enough to vaporize flesh. Many people did not even know what hit them.
I saw that photo yesterday, but yeah, if I'm trying to outrun a volcanic eruption and my leg gives out, I'll take the quick one-ton block to the head.
Yes, your right, @TypeCoin971793 ! I was understating the devastating effects that a volcanic cataclysm can have on humanity.
People dying from disasters? Doesn’t bother me at all. People dying at the hands of other people? That can bother me.
I guess I lost the context by not including the photo of Dark Helmet (posted by @RAGNAROK ), to which I was referring. With a helmet like that, anything would roll off of one's shoulders . . .
Ha! Reminds me of my all-time favorite line from the TV series The Mentalist: Patrick Jane (played by Simon Baker) and Teresa Lisbon (played by Robin Tunney) are trapped in a room with a bomb that's within seconds of detonating. Patrick tells Lisbon he thinks he can disarm the bomb by disconnecting a certain wire. Teresa says "What if you're wrong?" to which Patrick responds "We'll never know."
I understand what you're saying, @TypeCoin971793 but I don't think you mean that you're not bothered by the suffering caused by acts of nature. People dying from natural disasters bothers me. The families who lost loved ones to the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean (such as the one that devastated @TIF 's) home island—children dying from starvation due to famine and disease brought on by drought, brings tears to my eyes. But people dying by the cruel hands of other people is the most disturbing—I agree. My apologies! Since I'm off topic a bit—I need to keep this post coin related. Here's my Caesarea coin. I understand that the breakwaters in the harbor are partly constructed from a type of volcanic rock.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ded-flying-rock-fleeing-pompeii-had-treasure/ http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Il tesoro di monete del fuggiasco&idSezione=7721
The linked story above says "... beneath the skeleton they found the remains of a leather pouch which he had been carrying... The pouch contained 22 silver and bronze coins which together were worth 80 sestertii.... Some of the coins dated back to the 2nd century BC, while others were more recent and bore the likenesses of the emperors Augustus and Vespasian." Priorities, priorities.
The fact that coins were still circulating more than 200 years after they were minted reminds me of another hoard found in the UK recently. It was from the reign of Marcus Aurelius but had coins dating back to around 32 BCE. http://dailym.ai/1MTgJuP This is only possible in an economy where money is not being handled a lot daily in comparison to our modern post-industrial society. A narrower pool of industries mostly based around a few basic needs (food, place to live, clothes, and basic pre-industrial luxury goods), and a very tiny middle class and upper class, means money lasts a lot longer in circulation before being worn badly than it would in any modern nation today...even modern nations with smaller populations than that of the Roman Empire. That and I suppose the treasury back then probably cared little about removing badly worn coins from circulation, except for the rare occasion an emperor decided to recycle old coinage and restrike new coinage (but that doesn't seem to have happened too frequently.
