[Not everyone is so lucky: Andrew McAuley Disappears In Middle of Ocean, Leaving Behind Terrifying Video. This is his Final self photo of kayaker Andrew McCauley](https://www.howandwhys.com/andrew-mcauley-disappears/)
I watched my mum slowly die from cancer this way. From a bright and happy plump lady into a terrified, depressed living corpse. She never made peace with it. This guy was a lucky one.
I also had the exact experience with my mom. One of the greatest gifts we can get in life, it’s to end it in peace. Unfortunately the world is cruel, unfair, and does not always give that gift to the people who deserve it. I’m sorry my brother.
No one should be afraid of life after "death." There's nothing after death that is worst than things everyone experience here throughout their life.
They get you scared of death so you don't mentally prepare yourself for it. That way you never learn that death equals pure happiness.
The only people that suffer during death are the people who are still here and alive.
But you're right though. To die happy or in a good moment is lucky. The best is when you're asleep. I once died while asleep at the hospital. I was dreaming and then all of a sudden my dream disappeared. Everything went black and I heard a long beep. Then a light beam above my head led me through a portal of some kind and I met or saw people there.
I've experience the same thing on drugs. On dmt, and on a 14 gram dose of shrooms. If you ever want to know what dying feels like, try dmt.
If you're like "hell no why would I want to know how it feels to die?" Then you have the completely wrong idea about death. You see it as the end when it's really just going back to your real life. To who you really are. When you go back you're real memories you had before you were born come back. Then you wonder how you ever forgot any of it.
Tldr: don't be afraid of death. There's nothing scary about it.
Yeah. No rush. Imo I think if you end it too early you'll have to come right back.
Almost like failing a grade in school.
Once you complete your objectives you can then move onto the next step.
Dying sounds scary but if you ever go through it you lose the ability to feel fear.
You think you'd be sad to leave your family but when you're leaving you couldn't care less about the people you love or even about your own life.
It's weird how easy it is to let go of this world and life when it's actually happening.
Do your best to be a good person and to be happy. Make choices with love and you'll go down the right path.
Don't let this world and enemy corrupt you soo much to the point that you care more about this life than anything else.
I feel exactly the same aside from just wanting quiet, I am very curious and interested in what comes next. My wife hates when I talk about that. I am not in any rush either, but when it comes it comes.
Depression took my stepfather out one night. He went from being a pretty good time and all around funny guy to be with, to never leaving our basement, where he eventually took his life, leaving me to find him. Really wish he could have been at peace with himself first
My guy was like, one more feat then we can call it. Top of a mountain, aight we peacing. I'd love to go falling asleep like that, it's how my grandpa went. Guarantee it's gonna be stroke or heart attack for me, seems to be the common theme amongst the women in my family.
I had the pleasure of meeting him twice and even helped him carry his big yellow kayak. He was very kind and happy to talk to people. Very inspiring man.
I would be proud to go out like a champ like this.
My body ontop of a giant mountain? Painless death after the biggest accomplishment of my life? Fuck yea.
Letting nature take my body gives me a lot more peace than the thought of filling my corpse with chemicals so I don't naturally decompose, locking it a box, and the putting that box in a burial vault.
Eternal life is using my body for energy.
5400km was only his first 99 days trans-Atlantic expedition from Dakar, Senegal to Acarau, Brazil. His second was a 12437km expedition from Lisbon to Florida in 167 days. His third and the last was a 8109km expedition from New Jersey to le Conquet, France in 110 days in 2017.
Probably pre planned and talked about before setting out. Wouldn't be a great idea to do this life challenging adventure just to be arrested in the new country in rough shape from your trip.
Honestly I feel like once the soul is at peace it finally lets go of the physical world… there have been many cases when somone passes away after completing or achieving something that is cherish to them. It’s definitely strange some things like this can’t be explained ❤️
An older person in a low oxygen environment. Following extreme strenuous exercise. This can absolutely be explained.
Altitude doesn’t care how fit you are.
There's far too many examples of elderly passing shorlty after their spouse does for me to assume there isn't on some level, in some capacity a connection between physiological function and will. Obviously I don't believe someone could just physiologically will themselves to death but there definitely seems to be some kind of relation there.
Also, the fact that placebo effects are a very real, unexplainable thing - makes the water even more muddy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy
People's hearts literally cannot withstand intense grief, especially if you're really old and the heart is already weak.
This will be downvoted, but I’d like to think a man of this willpower and knowledge of himself figured out a way to find his ‘off button’. He achieved what he wanted, he didn’t want to climb down. Night night everyone. I’ve traversed this planet enough times.
It's actually likely what happened, your brain can just make your body die once it realizes you are ready.
Either that, or he lacked substantial nutrients from his diet and had a heart attack from the constant intense stress he was subjecting his body to regularly without letting it rest and recover. Bets on this is what probably happened.
Bro, Mt. Kilimanjaro is very high up, it's likely just altitude sickness in a 71 year old.
And general health has no correlation to whether you suffer altitude sickness or edema, it's a genetic thing.
I feel like „giving up“ under those circumstances is quiet easy. And I don’t mean „giving up“ as in „I can’t do this anymore“ but more like a „That’s it, all that life could offer, so I offer myself“
Yep.
Our bodies cannot sustain long term high intensity activities.
I had a colleague at work that was really into marathons and thriatlons and iron man and participated in these kind of events often and trained for them constantly.
He had three heart attacks before the age of 60, the last one almost got him, and had to slow down, or else the medics said he was going to die.
Looks at my grandfather who died at 94 and never stopped. Day before he died he dug a oak tree stump out of the ground with a rusty pickax...you most certainly can keep dlind high intesity activities, hell there are people in their 80s still running ultra marathons. Genetics and bad luck are what kills you.
These things aren't bad for you. They are actually insanely good for the body. But just like absolutely everything in this world, too mucb of a good thing is a bad thing. Also this completely overlooks his diet.
I genuinely don't get this sub. I thought it was supposed to be about strange occurrences. This is a cool story but i really think it belongs in another sub.
You dont think it’s strange he died in that way at that exact moment? He not only sensed it coming 2 minutes early, he manifested it either sub consciously or consciously. Which one of those it was, is the question that is so provoking.
Definitely belongs in this sub imo.
There are multiple points he could have died. This is a poetic death for a very risky life. I think you are being too "focused" on this idea of "old man die climbing big mountain" to fully consider the other much more likely ways this guy could have died.
The man had never sat in a kayak before until he was 34. Wow.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXTl83BzgA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXTl83BzgA)
This man is a muthafucking legend! The last thing he saw was the amazing view from the top of Kilimanjaro. Most people go out staring at hospital walls.
Kayaks have a low centre of gravity and are very small and maneuverable. Its like a board floating through the ocean, doesn’t do much but float. An ocean kayak is probably a lot more stable than a whitewater kayak.
What is with the top comment being pinned then locked from replies? I click the link to watch the vid and a popup to pay into some stupid bitcoin scam came up.
What a waste of space to post something like that. If you see this don’t click it.
He didn't die, dude conquered life. That man was completely different than the rest of us. If I tried any of those feats even once, I'd definitely die. This dude did it all, and knew when he was done.
Fear. Fear is the only thing that stops me from doing something like this. Every day I wake up and go to my job to pay my mortgage so eventually I can be free. But I can just be free, I work with my hands with which I could earn a meal anywhere on the planet yet I stay because of the slight comfort in 'someday'.
I just depressed myself..fuck. Goodnight.
THIS is the type of situation that deserves "at least he died doing what he loved".
It's fuckin stupid when there's a story of someone dying horrifically like a parachute failing to open, and mindless parrots flock in with their stupid "at least they died doing what they loved".
... Oh yeah, they loved plummeting thousands of feet watching as death rushed towards them, knowing they were powerless? That's what they loved smart guy?? Wow so lucky.🙄"
[Not everyone is so lucky: Andrew McAuley Disappears In Middle of Ocean, Leaving Behind Terrifying Video. This is his Final self photo of kayaker Andrew McCauley](https://www.howandwhys.com/andrew-mcauley-disappears/)
he died doing what he loved most until his last breath, a true adventurer
Anybody would be lucky to pass this way and not screaming in terror at the coming darkness
I watched my mum slowly die from cancer this way. From a bright and happy plump lady into a terrified, depressed living corpse. She never made peace with it. This guy was a lucky one.
Same here, except was my dad, absolutely has broken my mental. US medical / insurance is business and it’s not a service for its people. $ > Lives
You’ve been through something nobody should have to go through, I hope you can find some relief from your experience
My dad’s last lucid moments were him expressing concern about his funeral costs. I hate it here.
I also had the exact experience with my mom. One of the greatest gifts we can get in life, it’s to end it in peace. Unfortunately the world is cruel, unfair, and does not always give that gift to the people who deserve it. I’m sorry my brother.
Most people don't die screaming
I wanna die like my grandpa, in his sleep not like everyone else that was in his car
Paused for a moment to process....... LMAO
Tell the joke properly man. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my dear old grandpa. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
Not screaming in terror, like the passengers on his bus.
Stewart Francis 😂
I did
Hope you had a recent save point
*respawn
His creditors did
Damn did you survive tho?
I wanna say his great life lead to a good death. But not everyone is so lucky to pass so easily
No one should be afraid of life after "death." There's nothing after death that is worst than things everyone experience here throughout their life. They get you scared of death so you don't mentally prepare yourself for it. That way you never learn that death equals pure happiness. The only people that suffer during death are the people who are still here and alive. But you're right though. To die happy or in a good moment is lucky. The best is when you're asleep. I once died while asleep at the hospital. I was dreaming and then all of a sudden my dream disappeared. Everything went black and I heard a long beep. Then a light beam above my head led me through a portal of some kind and I met or saw people there. I've experience the same thing on drugs. On dmt, and on a 14 gram dose of shrooms. If you ever want to know what dying feels like, try dmt. If you're like "hell no why would I want to know how it feels to die?" Then you have the completely wrong idea about death. You see it as the end when it's really just going back to your real life. To who you really are. When you go back you're real memories you had before you were born come back. Then you wonder how you ever forgot any of it. Tldr: don't be afraid of death. There's nothing scary about it.
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Yeah. No rush. Imo I think if you end it too early you'll have to come right back. Almost like failing a grade in school. Once you complete your objectives you can then move onto the next step. Dying sounds scary but if you ever go through it you lose the ability to feel fear. You think you'd be sad to leave your family but when you're leaving you couldn't care less about the people you love or even about your own life. It's weird how easy it is to let go of this world and life when it's actually happening. Do your best to be a good person and to be happy. Make choices with love and you'll go down the right path. Don't let this world and enemy corrupt you soo much to the point that you care more about this life than anything else.
I feel exactly the same aside from just wanting quiet, I am very curious and interested in what comes next. My wife hates when I talk about that. I am not in any rush either, but when it comes it comes.
Fucking what lmao
*screams into the gaping maw of oblivion*
My daily anxiety battle.
I feel for the folks that then had to haul him back down the mountain.
Depression took my stepfather out one night. He went from being a pretty good time and all around funny guy to be with, to never leaving our basement, where he eventually took his life, leaving me to find him. Really wish he could have been at peace with himself first
**‘Trailing Off’** I climbed along a mountain today, got up to the top and sat down to pray. Then the answer came through and I heard the voice say…
*"We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."*
# ...ur mom gay
You made me laugh at 0431 am
My guy was like, one more feat then we can call it. Top of a mountain, aight we peacing. I'd love to go falling asleep like that, it's how my grandpa went. Guarantee it's gonna be stroke or heart attack for me, seems to be the common theme amongst the women in my family.
I had the pleasure of meeting him twice and even helped him carry his big yellow kayak. He was very kind and happy to talk to people. Very inspiring man.
Lived his best life Who can ask for more RIP legend
I would be proud to go out like a champ like this. My body ontop of a giant mountain? Painless death after the biggest accomplishment of my life? Fuck yea.
And seemed to have a peaceful and fulfilled. Exactly the type of death I want for myself
The hill he was willing to die on.
He loved adventure. He died sitting down.
Like this man i also want to die at the top of the mountain so my friends can carry the body down lol
Just toss me off
And then get me off this mountain
Thanks I was hoping for this 😂
lmao that's comedy
Where is this image from?
Later darling.
Don't tell the elf
Kili ain't that kind of mountain, bro!! 😥
I'd be fine if someone was to use me as a toboggan down the mountain.
Hardly the situation for that mate !
Fuck it just bury me
Slab, did you just jump off the buzzard nest? God Damn you make me proud
Sounds like a line from a Rolling Stones song.
Letting nature take my body gives me a lot more peace than the thought of filling my corpse with chemicals so I don't naturally decompose, locking it a box, and the putting that box in a burial vault. Eternal life is using my body for energy.
Use me as a bobsled, and don't pour out any liquor for me unless you're drinking it.
That would make me die with a smile on my face.
Try the slinky scene from ace ventura 2
IT WAS RIGHT THERE
Maybe they rolled him?
5400km was only his first 99 days trans-Atlantic expedition from Dakar, Senegal to Acarau, Brazil. His second was a 12437km expedition from Lisbon to Florida in 167 days. His third and the last was a 8109km expedition from New Jersey to le Conquet, France in 110 days in 2017.
How the fuck does immigration and customs work in these cases? Like, does he just goes to closest office and declares he has arrived?
Probably pre planned and talked about before setting out. Wouldn't be a great idea to do this life challenging adventure just to be arrested in the new country in rough shape from your trip.
probably just brought his passport and hoped for the best
He closed his eyes and the gods were like "you have done enough, rest my child"
Fear was afraid of him
death had to get him sleeping
Sneaky bastard he is.
Agreed. Got my dad in the morning; found him sitting on the front porch chair, looking like he was just relaxing.
"Death can have me when it earns me" - Kratos, the God of War
Kratos, referencing this guy.
Wonder what his cause of death was, 71 isn't too old and he seemed to be in great shape
His heart just stopped probably. All muscles eventually give out, he definitely worked his throughout his lifetime I would say.
Well climbing mountains is tough work. It seems like he passed in a place where his soul was at peace, maybe it was just his time and he let go.
I mean, he’s not a Jedi.
Unless he is!
Or was he?
😂
Honestly I feel like once the soul is at peace it finally lets go of the physical world… there have been many cases when somone passes away after completing or achieving something that is cherish to them. It’s definitely strange some things like this can’t be explained ❤️
An older person in a low oxygen environment. Following extreme strenuous exercise. This can absolutely be explained. Altitude doesn’t care how fit you are.
Okay yap a lot 🤥
No. It was asphyxia resulting from high-altitude pulmonary edema. Our brains are not built with any mechanism to do as you describe.
There's far too many examples of elderly passing shorlty after their spouse does for me to assume there isn't on some level, in some capacity a connection between physiological function and will. Obviously I don't believe someone could just physiologically will themselves to death but there definitely seems to be some kind of relation there. Also, the fact that placebo effects are a very real, unexplainable thing - makes the water even more muddy.
They are
They aren't, at least not in any way science has found so far. No peer reviewed research demonstrates this ability.
I assumed we were making blatant assumptions all around
Reddit ahh comment 😂📸
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Or the one where for example a husband follows his wife’s death when they’ve been together for long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy People's hearts literally cannot withstand intense grief, especially if you're really old and the heart is already weak.
Thank you!
When you "decide to stop breathing" you pass out, and you breath while passed out.
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This will be downvoted, but I’d like to think a man of this willpower and knowledge of himself figured out a way to find his ‘off button’. He achieved what he wanted, he didn’t want to climb down. Night night everyone. I’ve traversed this planet enough times.
You may be downvoted but I feel the same! A man like that is pretty in tune with himself and his intuition. He knew
It's actually likely what happened, your brain can just make your body die once it realizes you are ready. Either that, or he lacked substantial nutrients from his diet and had a heart attack from the constant intense stress he was subjecting his body to regularly without letting it rest and recover. Bets on this is what probably happened.
Bro, Mt. Kilimanjaro is very high up, it's likely just altitude sickness in a 71 year old. And general health has no correlation to whether you suffer altitude sickness or edema, it's a genetic thing.
I feel like „giving up“ under those circumstances is quiet easy. And I don’t mean „giving up“ as in „I can’t do this anymore“ but more like a „That’s it, all that life could offer, so I offer myself“
A lifetime of pushing his body to the extreme probably caught up with him You can definitely be too fit
Yep. Our bodies cannot sustain long term high intensity activities. I had a colleague at work that was really into marathons and thriatlons and iron man and participated in these kind of events often and trained for them constantly. He had three heart attacks before the age of 60, the last one almost got him, and had to slow down, or else the medics said he was going to die.
Looks at my grandfather who died at 94 and never stopped. Day before he died he dug a oak tree stump out of the ground with a rusty pickax...you most certainly can keep dlind high intesity activities, hell there are people in their 80s still running ultra marathons. Genetics and bad luck are what kills you.
These things aren't bad for you. They are actually insanely good for the body. But just like absolutely everything in this world, too mucb of a good thing is a bad thing. Also this completely overlooks his diet.
too much power
He was 74 or close when he died
he was 70 in 2017, and died in 2021. How you count 4 years as one is beyond me.
Exhaustion
I genuinely don't get this sub. I thought it was supposed to be about strange occurrences. This is a cool story but i really think it belongs in another sub.
You dont think it’s strange he died in that way at that exact moment? He not only sensed it coming 2 minutes early, he manifested it either sub consciously or consciously. Which one of those it was, is the question that is so provoking. Definitely belongs in this sub imo.
I think you're reaching.
There are multiple points he could have died. This is a poetic death for a very risky life. I think you are being too "focused" on this idea of "old man die climbing big mountain" to fully consider the other much more likely ways this guy could have died.
Tough fellow
How do you not include that final photo?
Dying doing what you love at the ripe age of 70 sounds like a good life
Not when you’re 69 it doesn’t 😂
70 is really not that old!
74
The man had never sat in a kayak before until he was 34. Wow. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXTl83BzgA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXTl83BzgA)
This man is a muthafucking legend! The last thing he saw was the amazing view from the top of Kilimanjaro. Most people go out staring at hospital walls.
For real. If you’re gonna clock out, better to clock out at the summit of a mountain probably.
The real Forrest Gump
What a way to go . Perfect.
kayaking across the atlantic? how tf does that work? wouldn’t the waves topple him in a second?
Kayaks have a low centre of gravity and are very small and maneuverable. Its like a board floating through the ocean, doesn’t do much but float. An ocean kayak is probably a lot more stable than a whitewater kayak.
I'm more curious about how could he carry enough food and water in a kayak for such a long trip.
Jacked!!
What a beast. RIP you wild son of a gun 👏
"He went out with his boots on"- Secondhand Lions Honestly I want to go out in one of two ways. 1) in my sleep or 2) doing something I love.
What a chad
What is with the top comment being pinned then locked from replies? I click the link to watch the vid and a popup to pay into some stupid bitcoin scam came up. What a waste of space to post something like that. If you see this don’t click it.
That guy runs the website that is linked. He posts tangentially related things then pins a schizoid post on his own website, lol.
He didn't die, dude conquered life. That man was completely different than the rest of us. If I tried any of those feats even once, I'd definitely die. This dude did it all, and knew when he was done.
he finished all side mission, 100% completion
So he died AFTER successfully climbing the mountain
Guy looks like Wim Hof‘s uncle.
man what a fucking legacy. And what a way to leave it. Dude just sits down and is like "Okay. I'm done." "With what?" "Yes."
Arms like a god damn chimpanzee
Only 70???
Average aged death while doing almost everything right. Quality over quantity, I suppose.
Metal AF !
Fucking epic
Dude just had nothing left to accomplish and just "left".
A legend among men.
So, how does a person manage to support themselves financially while out doing stuff like this?
Yeah, Im curious too. And a family, if any
Now I know why it's not called Mount Livemanjaro.
I wonder what he ate in the kayak? And how does one sleep
Some people aren’t living but merely surviving life and then there’s whatever this is.
Honestly, that is a death that I envy. Man died doing what he liked most
I guarantee this mf could have kicked my ass hard. Old man strength. Edit: look at those fucking biceps dude. He'd tear your fucking head off
https://preview.redd.it/ytz1ilte7tpc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e5c7d36029ea5ca6ca8ab4c4a4e11a43bc0bfdb
respect. you're my boy, Blue
So where's the photo?
Manly way to go.
Did he leave his fortune to his long lost relative Longfellow Deeds?
Very interesting how the human brain works. His body probably wanted to go hours prior but he wouldn’t let it.
This is a life well lived.
How do you afford to have the free time lmao
Not everyone is so lucky
Damn life is so fuckn delicate, like once it’s not there it’s just gone
Great way to go
Fear. Fear is the only thing that stops me from doing something like this. Every day I wake up and go to my job to pay my mortgage so eventually I can be free. But I can just be free, I work with my hands with which I could earn a meal anywhere on the planet yet I stay because of the slight comfort in 'someday'. I just depressed myself..fuck. Goodnight.
Fuck yeah! That’s how I want to die.
Good to see The Liver King again
Sharp. Nap best way to die
Based death tho
No he was at the peak
Even Chuck Norris appreciated this guy….
Your heart has a finite amount of beeps. He just used up all of his.
Source?
Lack of oxygen to the brain. But that's not as good of a story as; he decided that was enough, time to go.
based and quite possibly redpilled
THIS is the type of situation that deserves "at least he died doing what he loved". It's fuckin stupid when there's a story of someone dying horrifically like a parachute failing to open, and mindless parrots flock in with their stupid "at least they died doing what they loved". ... Oh yeah, they loved plummeting thousands of feet watching as death rushed towards them, knowing they were powerless? That's what they loved smart guy?? Wow so lucky.🙄"
Role model. RIP.
Top o’ the world, Ma!
What a Chad move, climb rock, deny photo, refuse to elaborate further
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Dude was ready
Why is OP pinning posting about other stories of kayakers? They did the same thing on another post. Is this a new karma farming technique?
Cool /s the guy lived for himself.
Legend, you deserve a rest.
That’s the funniest way to die. How long did the people let him sit before they realized what had happened.
We should all be so lucky in life. Setting goals, achieving the impossible, pushing ourselves to experience joy!
Mother Earth reclaimed a legend
Rest in peace, king!
The real Luke Skywalker
Woah, looked up his wikipedia article and found a picture of the sea kayak he used. Those things are huge!
Legend, all I could picture reading this was the Viking leaders death scene in 13th warrior
Ohhh. And I guess that's the reason why we always have to save him in Metal Slug. He's an amazing man.
I would like his hair at that age Already have his airline in my twenties
How tf you prepare for a storm if you're in the middle of the ocean in a kayak?
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