To find what’s happened to Michael Mosley quite anxiety provoking

Agree. And yes that’s what I thought.

Absolutely.

My DH is the same. He’s 60 and loves going out running when we’re on holiday. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Because he’s really fit and eats a clean diet, he completely ignores the fact that he’s bloody 60. He genuinely believes he has the same body as a 30 year old. It wouldn’t surprise me if MM also had the same ridiculous invincible attitude. Beetroot juice will only take you so far, but it can’t reverse the aging process!

Jesus, some of the responses on here are harsh.

Didn't the poor man get lost??

One thing is certain in life, we're all going to die. No point fretting about it, no one knows when .

There is a middle ground, which I'm sure is the path you would take. Go out early or in the evening in hot weather, take adequate water, dress appropriately in light coloured clothing that covers your neck and arms, wear a wide brimmed hat, tell someone where you are going.

It’s a bit strange to be ‘furious’ with him. We don’t know him. It seems perhaps he got lost. It’s just very very sad and unfortunate. It is not an everyday occurrence OP so there is no need for anxiety. Most people would not choose to walk in such heat because they’d be much too hot! MM seems to have had a very adventurous personality. I feel sorry however for outdoor workers in places like Italy and Greece during heatwaves whose health is at severe risk from such heat. At least one died last year in Italy.

By a doctor too!

You have to remember that things like this don’t happen to most people most of the time. In fact, when you think of all the myriad things that could go massively wrong, most of the time they don’t. Most of the time, either there are no consequences, or they become a dramatic story about a near miss. That’s almost the worst thing about this case- it was so nearly ok. He was about 90 seconds away from safety.

I completely agree. I mean a medial doctor? What on earth was he thinking?

How do you choose a sensible approach?

I live as carefully as I can, I don't take unnecessary risks, and I just let any worry go. I'm going to die, and there's not a fucking thing I can do about it. Maybe today, maybe in 30 years, don't know, refuse to care. I will not allow the fear of dying and death to take away from living my life and enjoying what I can right now.

If something horrible happens to you, you won't think 'oh thank goodness I spent so long being anxious about this'

I just feel so sad about it, I heard of another shocking death of a friend of a friend recently and with that and MM I’d go nuts just thinking about the “if only”s x

I’m finding all the coverage, and particularly videos, really quite awful. Apparently there is one at the end of his ‘walk’. I can’t believe this is being shown as I don’t want to see what led up to a man’s death and it must be dreadful for his family . I do agree with posters being baffled at his decision to walk in the middle of the day in such high temperatures but it was possible the heat was already affecting his judgement.

Agreed

There is an element of futility about it all. So much thought and care for his own and other people’s health and wellbeing. So much. And yet he went

for a walk in an unknown place in extreme heat without the correct resources or enough water and without a phone

I’m careful about nutrition and health - no doubt partly in response to ideas he promulgated, but there must be people walking around thinking that if he’d lived on burgers and chips and not been rich enough for a lovely holiday … he might have lived to be 100. (This is an observation about life, rather than specifically about him. I’m always faintly astonished when people demonstrably more materially fortunate than me leave life behind while I’m still here.)

I’m sad for him as well as his family - and I understand what you’re saying, @Glasto73lover.

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As a solitary walker this has, indeed, given me food for thought.

I've had numerous "getting- lost-and-ending-up- scrabbling- up-a-tiny-goat-path-on-the-side-of-a-cliff" moments. Nobody's going to find you if you're in the undergrowth way off the path.
You do hear about lost walkers, quite regularly. I did a 14 mile walk on Exmoor last weekend (which also involved getting spectacularly lost, ending up with barbed wire cuts and a dozen ticks 😳), which included a massive cliff on the coast path- a nearly sheer drop of 200m. When I got back to the campsite, the farmer took a great deal of relish in telling me about the lone female walker who disappeared there recently. "They had all the helicopters out, but it took them three days to find her body at the foot of the cliff" 😪.

But what can you do, other than take reasonable precautions? Walking gives me such joy, and statistically the chances are that it will lengthen your life rather than the opposite.

I don't really like the holier than thou posters sneering about how stupid MM was. We all make mistakes, and my guess is that he never meant to walk that far. Got lost after Pedi perhaps, dehydration kicked in, he started to get confused...?

Well, to be fair, he was walking at lunchtime, the hottest part of the day, in almost 40 degree temps, with "a" bottle of water and no way of contacting anyone. He got lost, confused by dehydration and collapsed it appears.

I'd say that whilst unintentional, it was misjudged and quite risky and he sadly paid with his life.

Am the vast majority or people don’t have accidents and don’t die suddenly when young. That is not to say these things happen, and they are tragic when they do. But the chances of it happening to any of us is very small indeed.

I feel the exact same op

I absolutely agree. Far more likely that he was feeling a bit ‘off’ and decided to go back to the villa without disturbing his friends and wife by saying much. Probably just thought he’d be better off out of the sun. Along the way he likely had some medical event and the rest is very sad history.

RIP MM, I loved Just one thing and will certainly keep some of them up for a better life.

@Whatafustercluck

What I'm saying is, you will start to find your anxiety improves once you realise that there's actually a huge amount of control you can take to reduce the risks.

This is the key to it all really. Yes, of course, freak events happen that are difficult if not impossible to avoid. But for most of the time, we have it in our own power to mitigate risks by using common sense, and not being blase/arrogant and doing insane things where the consequences are entirely foreseeable and to a large extent, avoidable. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!

I'm kind of with you on this one. Mad dogs and Englishmen 😢

Yes I thought much the same. In a way I think his medical knowledge and his writing/ presenting sort of led him to over estimate his invincibility.
That said we all do stupid things from time to time and get away with it or not.