I suspect that a MAJOR essence of the 21st century recreational wilderness is as a death encounter, like Disneyland.
suicide is another common cause of death in US national parks - basically everything EXCEPT exposure/animal attack
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This makes total sense. It is the natural place in some ways. In traditional Indian life-stage script, the 3rd stage is "vanaprastha" (give up worldly life and go live in forest). The last stage, "sanyas" (renunciation) often implied voluntary ascetic death while in the forest.
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In practical terms this makes absolutely no sense, since in the last stage (traditionally ages 75-100) you'd likely be in poor health and the best place for you would be heart of civilization where you could be cared for. I sometimes wonder how it actually worked in practice.
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