Ammon McNeely

So do you have insurance or who is footing(pun) the bill ?

Nov 5, 2013 - 01:58am PT
You simply can't say one is more dangerous or risky than the other.

It's sad to me that you would even have to "defend" anything at this level, particularly on a forum such as this one!

You have every right in your person to take ANY risk with your person that in YOUR and YOUR mind ALONE provides an acceptable risk/reward ratio. There CAN be no "judging" here of the risks you take and the contexts in which you take them. Who here DARES to "judge" or even question what rewards you "ought" to be seeking via this or that "risk?"

MOST people are living entire lives FAR riskier than yours, with their utter lack of exercise, terrible diets, nasty habits and addictions, and the list goes on and on. And the PATHETIC thing is that they take all these very real risks with little to no intentional awareness or even reward for their entire lives! And then when the have a heart attack or stroke at 55 (or earlier), everybody wrings their hands and talks about how "cruel" death is to have snatched them away so young.

Honestly, it makes me sick, this virtually complete lack of INTENTIONAL living.

LIFE is a zero-sum game, and NOBODY gets out of it alive! But most people live totally unintentional lives without ever getting out of the box or knowing WHO and WHAT they are.

Unlike my feelings for them, I HONOR what you've been seeking, and you have NOTHING to "defend" or "explain" to anybody on these threads! And some people here that have gone to the edge themselves in various contexts ought to know better than to wag their fingers in the SLIGHTEST!

I, for one, for whatever it's worth, simply HONOR you, Ammon. And I'm jazzed that things are going even better than we dared to hope. You've got much more road to walk, and you'll be doing it on both feet! Awesome!

Hey Ammon.. I don't know Rwedgee, but I don't think that he was trying to be rude. I believe that he was just trying to find an indirect way of asking if you needed any help with the bills.

Ammon's mom you rule! You raised a remarkable son. Glad he's with you now.

About This Cause
We are raising donations to help get Ammon Mcneely back to what he loves as fast as possible. Ammon is one of those people who would do anything for someone he just met so it's time for us to return the favor. He had a very gnarly accident recently that could have been anyone, be it a rock climber, BASE jumper, mountain biker, etc. Donations will go directly to getting Ammon a new setup for BASE jumping as his is currently worn through the bone (no pun intended). So if you want to see Ammon flying around Utah and other various cliff wall regions with a pirate logoed canopy pitch in! Otherwise go walk the plank. YARRRRRR

We need funds to cover the cost of the new setup and anything left over will go to Ammon for help with medical bills. The extent of his injury will leave him immobilized for quite some time and he will not be in any shape to start earning new gear for next year.