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When Nick DiGiovanni was maintaining the BFL, there was a segment for jumpers who died not directly during jumps. When I was first learning to jump, this list certainly made me think about what I was getting into. Lots of suicides, skydiving deaths, and auto deaths in that list... including several who were injured in BASE jumps and died/killed themselves later, or people who fell off mountains while hiking to jumps, or who died while being chased by park rangers.

I think it's helpful information for newbies and informative for experienced jumpers... Does anyone else feel that this segment is something worth bringing back?

Post this on the other forum, since the list is maintained now by a jumper who does not post here.

You can always click on the list i have been making for the last few years click my signature and scroll down bottom i have been adding people on the bottom..

http://www.splatula.com/base_fatality_list/default.nooot
save as .html ;)

Then we would all make the list eventually.
Take care,
space

Just curious and don't take this the wrong way, but is there any particular reason you end all of your posts with

"Take care,
space"

?

 "Care" (short for Carrinton) was the name of an Ex GF's annoying little Shitzu dog the would chew the heck out of everything if it was left alone. So she (The Ex) and I would argue about who was going to take Care.
me: Take Care,
Her: No, you take Care.
Me: I took Care last time. It's your turn to take Care.
Her: I don't wanna take Care.....etc.
After that dog left we got another, which I named "Stay". The dog ended up going neurotic. "Come here Stay, Stay, come here. Wanna go outside Stay?

Like that story? I just made it up, There aint a lick of truth in it.

Actually, I got on the internet after I moved to Germany and it's a common thing to say this to some embarking on a journey, especially higher risk ones. So I started ending my post with the Bavarian dialect version and it was pissing people off. So I just changed it to the English version.
So why dont you "Pass Auf" .
See what I mean?
Sometimes in the heat of the moment we forget to take care and make mistakes. So it's just a reminder for me and others.
Take care,
space

It is a BASE FATALITY list, not a BASE jumper dying other ways list.

Example: A BASE jumper, dies by massive internal injuries, sustained by stampeding cattle while riding a scooter on a rural country road, 2 days after a BASE jump.

What information would be pertinent to BASE jumpers, in that fatality?

It was kinda cool that the list had that back when it was a tiny community....Kind of a tribute to some of the characters that we all knew and loved. There was a time where anyone who was hardcore knew everyone else in the whole world that was hardcore.

Now it is probably too much work just to keep the list updated.

There were pretty much zero natural deaths. The reason for that was that BASE was still so young that everyone was still relatively young in age. I can't remember it all. There might have been a natural death or two. Falling asleep driving was right near the top.