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6 comments on “Giving up on the Miners?”

1. If it were my father it would be hard to stop serching, but if I were the father in the mine I would rather meet my maker than have others do so trying to rescue me.

   Pretty easy to say not being there.

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2. Yeah, of course I’d want them to keep going, but as a spectator, I’m really glad they’re not. It has been two weeks. It’s very unlikely that they are alive. And it is totally irresponsible to keep going like this until they are certain they can do so safely, because all they’re probably going to retrieve are bodies. I know it sounds cruel, and I’ve heard that people have survived this long. Maybe someone who knows can explain the likelihood, because I’d certainly love to be proven wrong in this case. How likely is it that they have suitable drinking water down there, and what is the longest someone has survived in a situation like this?

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3. There are no easy answers, and no matter which direction the rescue effort proceeds there will be those who are angry and question it for the rest of their lives. I couldn’t tell the families face to face that their request for a capsule hole is unreasonable.

   Another interesting not is that the media attention, at least at the national level, is waning (I have been in Portland over the weekend). The 24 hour news cycle has moved on to the next hot story, Hurricane Dean.

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4. That is true. The finality of such a decision, no matter what it is, is ugly, ugly, ugly. I just hope that people will open their hearts for healing.

   The national press is moving on because it’s getting less interesting and less likely that anyone is found alive. You can be sure that when we know one way or another (or when Murray makes another stupid comment), they’ll be there again.

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5. you know how i feel about this, tom. while it makes no sense to endanger the rescuers… are we abandoning those 6 men?

   honestly…at this point, i hope they are dead. i hope they died when the mine collapsed on monday, august 6. i hope they didn’t suffer for a prolonged period of time.

   i am glad this isn’t my decision to make.

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6. I would want as much done for them as possible. It is even more discouraging to hear that the ‘safer’ retrieval methods are too expensive.

   But the whole rescue effort is a big guessing game it seems, and the chances of them surviving the initial 4 seismic event is really slim. (a 1.2 killed 3 people)

   I understand their frustration though I am not in their shoes.

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