<story><title>Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-cave-500-days-beatriz-flamini-1.6810428</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The climber, a woman, spent those 500 days alone inside the cave &lt;i&gt;voluntarily&lt;/i&gt;, as part of an experiment.&lt;p&gt;It takes a special kind of person to volunteer for that and follow through with it.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think I could stay alone in a cave for 100 days and emerge with my sanity intact, forget about 500.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I was reading about a Buddhist ritual for self mummification. The final phase involved being voluntarily lowered into the ground in a lotus position until they die.&lt;p&gt;It’s quite amazing what the human mind can do. Especially when you’re crazy.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sokushinbutsu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sokushinbutsu&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-cave-500-days-beatriz-flamini-1.6810428</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The climber, a woman, spent those 500 days alone inside the cave &lt;i&gt;voluntarily&lt;/i&gt;, as part of an experiment.&lt;p&gt;It takes a special kind of person to volunteer for that and follow through with it.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think I could stay alone in a cave for 100 days and emerge with my sanity intact, forget about 500.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>It reminded me of Michel Siffre, weird that there are no mentions of him in the article&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Michel_Siffre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Michel_Siffre&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>