The panic of a drowning person is mixed with an odd incredulity that this is actually happening. Having never done it before, the body—and the mind—do not know how to die gracefully. The process is filled with desperation and awkwardness. “So this is drowning,” a drowning person might think. “So this is how my life finally ends.”
Excerpt from Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, in which he pretty much recreated scenes of a sinking ship, from which no one survived.
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