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Fifth Canadian confirmed dead in Hamas attack threw himself on grenade (globalnews.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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The Hamas attack that left Israeli-Canadian Netta Epstein dead was chronicled in his phone messages with his mother.

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[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago

What a bad ass. "Oh shit we're all going to die!" "ME FIRST!"

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While not diminishing the heroism, laying atop a grenade might be among the least bad ways to go during the attack. One instant you're there pumped on hero juice, the next instant you're gone. No leftover brain activity to experience who knows what while actively dying.

[-] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

I've seen enough Ukranian drone drop videos with grenades landing on Russians to know that being on the receiving end is absolutely not immediately lights out.