In a survival situation would you, could you hold on until you were rescued or died or would you rather make a decision and let go?

I am thinking about this, because of the boating tragedy in Florida that claimed three young men’s lives, two NFL players.

After hours of clinging to the overturned boat being pounded by waves, two of the friends took off their life jackets and allowed themselves to be swept out to sea. On the second day, the third young man thought he saw a light, took off his life jacket and swam toward it. (The survivor said he thought his friend was hallucinating.)

The man who lived kept hanging on because he said he could not bear for his mother to attend his funeral. He was rescued after 46 hours in 60+ degree water.

I am wondering why some live and some die. I am wondering what I would do.