Something this reminded me of — back the mid-1970s I remember reading a Sports Illustrated story about a guy in — probably the Baja 1000 ---- who got lost on the route, and eventually died of thirst in the desert. He was a pretty well-known racer at the time. Also riding a motorcycle. The weird bit was, he seemed to have actually hidden his motorcycle under brush. The speculation seemed to be, that, after a few days of being out there and realizing he was going to die, he seemed to have almost decided to hide his stuff out of embarrassment, rather than having stuff out in the open where he might be spotted from an aerial search. Like he didn’t want to be found.
Years later, in that Anthony Hopkins movie The Edge, there’s a point where the character says something about, “Most people lost in the wilderness die of embarrassment.”, that is, they get into a mind-lock where instead of trying new things to try to get rescued, they just go over and over how they got into the predicament in the first place, making them ineffective.
(I realize this isn’t related to the current scenario, other than a death on the Baja 1000 or similar race, but I wondered if anybody remembers the incident I’m referencing here. I’ve googled on it several times but couldn’t find anything, but of course, this all happened 20 years before the Internet really came into its own).
