"I would have just crumbled into a feedle ball," says Anda. "There was at least a 50 percent chance that i could have died", she adds of her decision not to cross the river. The author recalls an incident in which his ex-boyfriend left him stranded and he had to go up on the roof of his house by himself. He doesn't recall having any epiphanies, but does know what really matters is other people.
Are you more likely to experience post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth? How does belief in the afterlife affect how you view death? And why did Angela hike a deadly gorge with her ex-boyfriend?