Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

[britisha]

What a tale!! Peeps seldom ever know why others do whateva they do.. regardless of what it appears to be on the surface.

Updated 6:38 PM EDT, Wed, Aug 19, 2009

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Capt. Chesley Sully Sullenberger made it his life's mission to protect lives because he couldn't save his father from suicide, according to the hero pilot's blockbuster new book.

"One of the reasons I think I've placed such a high value on life is that my father took his," Sullenberger reveals in the memoir, a copy of which the New York Daily News obtained ahead of the tome's October release.

Sullenberger reveals that his father, a dentist from Texas, battled depression and shot himself in 1995 at age 78 in the book "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters."

"I'm willing to work very hard to protect people's lives, to be a good Samaritan, and to not be a bystander, in part, because I couldn't save my father," Sullenberger wrote.

[halfwaytree]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

I have heard it said before that the rate of suicide and depression among dentists is higher than those in other professions. Looks like that statistic applied to his fathers case.

[julie*mango]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

Why is that? I thought it was taxi drivers and bus drivers that held the suicide record.

[RichD]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why is that? I thought it was taxi drivers and bus drivers that held the suicide record. </div></div> mussi all dat lookin into ppl tinkin mout.

[Magician]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

I don't think that during his flight he was being a good samaritan that wanted to save people's lives.

In a stressful and dangerous situation people have a self-preservation instinct. And I'm sure that first thing on his mind is to save his own life.

Plus he didn't really have much time to think, and when you have to make decisions without the time to analyse the situation, you fall back on the training you received and your experience.



He may be saving other people's lives on his off days and his father is the motivation for that, but I don't see his ditching in the Hudson as anything more than doing your job and protecting yourself from harm.

[britisha]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magix_958_1919</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't think that during his flight he was being a good samaritan that wanted to save people's lives.

In a stressful and dangerous situation people have a self-preservation instinct. And I'm sure that first thing on his mind is to save his own life.

Plus he didn't really have much time to think, and when you have to make decisions without the time to analyse the situation, you fall back on the training you received and your experience.



He may be saving other people's lives on his off days and his father is the motivation for that, but I don't see his ditching in the Hudson as anything more than doing your job and protecting yourself from harm. </div></div>

I tend to disagree with some of what you state here, and in fact am rather surprised that you would even suggest it.


There are folks out there who <span style="font-weight: bold">in a heartbeat will think of the lives of others, before their own...firemen are a good example</span>..

..are you sure that this is what you meant to say Magic?

while I do agree that he might have placed some priority on his own life, and while I may believe that his father's death didn't play a significant role there and then, nobody can second guess him about what actually went &quot;down' in his own mind at that time.

&quot;Falling &quot;back on the training you received and your experience.&quot; requires thought, and memory recall... who knows...he might have rehearsed such scenario in his mind on a daily basis, and therefore could put it into action at such a difficult time...

I feel sorry for him for it seems that he is still grieving to this day.

[britisha]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why is that? I thought it was taxi drivers and bus drivers that held the suicide record. </div></div>

Lyahs err lawyers are up dere as well, dem seh.

[Magician]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

I meant what I said.

We're not in the business of saving people's lives (unlike firefighters)

We're in the business of keeping people away from situations that require life saving skills from people like firefighters.

[britisha]

Re: Pilot Skully's will to save lives on the Hudson River

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Lyahs err lawyers are up dere as well, dem seh. </div></div>

Mek mi use mi ownah chred fi seh, mi still cyaan mek hout wha sum a oonoh a seh..,in ANY langwig watsoeva..


Duh!!

[na it noh ha nutt'n fi duh widd disyah tapick} or chred