Bad Dog works in a hospital where he runs the heart and lung machine during open heart surgery. This gives him a professional interest in hypothermia. He’s also into the outdoors, and the two interests sometimes combine and lead him to some unusual reading material.
Today he sent out a link to an article about hypothermia. This account takes a medical description of what happens as you enter the various stages, and combines it with a story about someone experiencing them. The result is quite eerily compelling and well worth a read.
In many ways, it reminded me of Jack London’s To Build a Fire.