Episode 144 - Life on ice: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the blue plaque polar explorers
The English Heritage Podcast
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Lawrence Oates's Noble Act of Self Sacrifice
Lawrence oates's suicide is a story that many people will know just from popular culture. He went out into the teeth of the blizzard with the words, i'm just going out now and maybe some time. But he wasn't going to come back, and knew that, and it was done in a higher cause. Not very long before, Suicide was not only mortal sin, but it was also a crime. You buried to be buried in unconsecrated grounds often at cross roads.
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