Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Why You Won't Find Bodies On The Titanic | Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron" video.

If you want to feel very small. Just consider that in 100 years you will be dead. In 200 years ago, you'll be lucky to be a line in somebody's family tree and in 500 years, you probably won't even be that. It really puts things into perspective about how much most things are really worth in terms of stress and frustration.
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It would have been over in less than half an hour at that latitude. Even if they managed to find an air pocket and somehow survive the pressure as it built up, hypothermia would have killed them. And honestly, hypothermia isn't a particularly bad way to go. The brain loses blood flow as the body tries to keep the heat in the core as much as possible and eventually you just kind of pass out.
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That was one of the lucky ones. There were countless more that died in the weeks and months after. Some even died decades later as a result of cancer due to the exposure to the radioactive fallout. The actual bombings themselves killed fewer people than died in the Dresdent firebombing. It's only when you consider those delayed fatalities that the nuclear bombings really pulled ahead i terms of scale.
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@bend1951 In the grand scheme of things it doesn't, but it can take a very long time to die between when the thing that proves fatal happens to when the end comes. Being trapped in a cave with no means of being extracted can result in death weeks later all the while knowing what's going to happen. Whereas asphyxiating on nitrogen is like a few breaths and you just pass out and don't breath again as the oxygen gets pulled out and your body shuts down in a matter of a few moments. In the grand scheme people who died in both ways are still dead, but it's a very human feature to find one of those two to be preferable to the other. I think a lot of that has to do with our thoughts on our own mortality and preferring to go out in a way that involves less suffering.
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@X_BILSON Yes, none of us will be alive for the 200th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, but there are definitely ways that I wouldn't want to go.
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