People Who Refused To Die

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Hiroo Onoda 1974 After wwII. Spends 30 years hiding in the jungles of the Philippines finally emerges wearing a coconut fiber uniform, as his old one had long since rotted away.

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Poon Lim 1942 Stuck on raft in the south Atlantic Sea for 133 days.

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Steven Callahan 1982 Adrift on a life raft in the Atlantic with only 8 pints of water and 3 lbs of food drifted for 76 days and over 1800 miles of Ocean until he was rescued in the Bahamas.

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The Crew of the Commerce 1815-17 US sailors marched across the sahara after enslaved by Bedouins. One man tried to eat his own arm and others drank camel urine.

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Aaron Ralston 2003 Hiker traps his arm while climbing down Blue John Canyon in Utah. After 5 days he frees himself by amputating his arm with a blunt knife.

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The Donnor Party. Pioneers who in 1846 gets trapped by snow in Sierra, Nevada survives by resorting to cannibalism. 48 out of 87 survived.

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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 1972 Plane carrying 45 people crashes into the Andes. Resorting to cannibalism they endure 72 days in mountains. 15 survived

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Ernest Shackleton 1914 Atlantic explorers abandon ship and live on ice before mounting a 16 day 800 mile crossing of the ocean.

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John McCain 1967 Senator John McCain survived 5 and a half years in Hoa Lo Prison during vietnam war. Both arms and a leg broken, bayoneted and beaten by North Vietnamese army. Spends two years in solitary confinment he refuses to go when released while other captured before him remained in captivity.

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Douglas Mawson 1912 Antartic explorer loses companions during expedition and spends 30 days covering 100 miles before finding a rescue party.