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STERLING, Ohio (AP) -- A first-time skydiver slipped from her harness during a jump Saturday and fell to her death, authorities said.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/28/skydiv ... index.html

There is a very good reason that some life insurance companies don't write policies to sky divers. Unfortunately, many people never make the connection.

I will just stay with sailing on water instead of the sky.

One of my college classmates died from a mid-air collision while she was sky-diving.

Wow... I've always wanted to skydive. Reading stories like that just scares me. Just gotta think that out of the thousands of skydivers only a few die per year.

Well, when my time is up, this is NOT how I want to go...

I rather go water-tubing than sky-diving.

my cousin when he was 17 died this way - neither chute would open.
First time up - only practice they had was jumping off a loft in a barn before they went out. He had the world in front of him too -he was young and my uncle had died and wanted him to run his oil co. for him.

I'd never jump out of a perfectly good airplane. No way..no how.
I'd go on the scariest largest roller coaster...but I'd never bungee jump or sky dive.
When I plan on dying, I plan to go with a lot of people, not just by myself.


-justin-

Well, I think we are all getting a good education here.

sad, but another great reason not to jump out of a perfectly good airplane...

Justin, AMEN Brother! Why on EARTH would anyone want to jump from a perfectly good airplane.

My God, what a tragedy Artist, I'm sorry to hear about your losses.....

Dennis

My daddy always told me that there wasn't but two things that fell out of the sky. Fools and Bird Crap!!
Guess he was on to something LOL
TIm

PS Don't mean to make light of the accident it is very sad about the girl but that is a high risk sport and sometimes it does not end well.