Related: Carefully Collecting the Chilean Miners
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — After more than two months trapped deep in a Chilean mine, 33 miners were so giddy with confidence, officials said yesterday, that they were arguing over who would be the last to take a twisting 20-minute ride to daylight and the embrace of those they love....
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile —A torrent of emotions awaits the miners when they finally rejoin the outside world.
As trying as it has been for them to survive underground for more than two months, their gold and copper mine is familiar territory. Once out of the shaft, they’ll face challenges so bewildering, no amount of coaching can fully prepare them.
They will be embraced by their families and pursued by more than 750 journalists who have converged on the mine, competing for interviews and images to feed to the world.
If you swear at them will they go away?
The miners also have been invited to visit presidential palaces, take all-expense-paid vacations, and appear on countless television shows. Contracts for book and movie deals are pending, along with job offers. More money than they could ever dream of is already awaiting their signatures.
Lottery winners say that causes problems.
But eventually, a new reality will set in, and for most, it won’t be anything like the life they knew before the mine collapsed above their heads....
At first they’ll feel besieged, poorly treated by the media, and perhaps overwhelmed by even the attention of their own families, predicted Dr. Claus Behn, a University of Chile physiologist with expertise on disorders stemming from surviving extreme situations.
We ALL FEEL THAT WAY!
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Hey, I'm JUST GLAD they all came out alive!
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was raised from the depths of the earth last night — a joyous ending to a 69-day ordeal that riveted the world. No one has ever been trapped so long and survived....
One by one throughout the day, the men had emerged to the cheers of exuberant Chileans and before the eyes of a transfixed globe....
Yeah, from what little I heard the corporate media was all over it. I haven't seen or even read much lately with the job. All my posts lately have been read-as-you-go.
They rejoined a world intensely curious about their ordeal and certain to offer fame and jobs.
Actually, I would like to give them some decompression and stress-free space. Let's leave 'em alone for a while, shall we? Let them get acclimated up on top first. The money will always be there.... won't it?
Previously unimaginable riches awaited men who had risked their lives going into the unstable gold and copper mine for about $1,600 a month....
After what they have been through isn't life itself more precious?
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Also see: ‘This is certainly a unifying event’
Not another 9/11, thank God!
