Cassandra

Two parts to it, you could, as a tourist, go pay for a five gallon bucket of dirt and sift it down, or you could go up and dig your own dirt if you were more intense, and that's where I worked. Happened to be my last day on the job before I was done for this season.

And at the beginning of the season for this particular fee dig site, a backhoe had gone in, created a pretty big trench, about 20, 25 feet wide. So there were these two walls that people could then dig into. Fast forward, end of the season here, one of the walls got to be pretty tall. We're talking about 8 to 10 feet. And a large overhang started to develop. Okay. Okay. Uh-oh.

And at the beginning of the season for this particular fee dig site, a backhoe had gone in, created a pretty big trench, about 20, 25 feet wide. So there were these two walls that people could then dig into. Fast forward, end of the season here, one of the walls got to be pretty tall. We're talking about 8 to 10 feet. And a large overhang started to develop. Okay. Okay. Uh-oh.

And at the beginning of the season for this particular fee dig site, a backhoe had gone in, created a pretty big trench, about 20, 25 feet wide. So there were these two walls that people could then dig into. Fast forward, end of the season here, one of the walls got to be pretty tall. We're talking about 8 to 10 feet. And a large overhang started to develop. Okay. Okay. Uh-oh.

I'm sitting out away from this wall and I hear a crack. Everything goes black. I am completely buried.

I'm sitting out away from this wall and I hear a crack. Everything goes black. I am completely buried.

I'm sitting out away from this wall and I hear a crack. Everything goes black. I am completely buried.

We're talking two to three tons just on me. No.

We're talking two to three tons just on me. No.

We're talking two to three tons just on me. No.

So there's customers up there. Sad part of this story is there was another customer, Rockhound from Idaho, loved to spend his vacation time at their digging stones. And he was further underneath and he died on impact.

So there's customers up there. Sad part of this story is there was another customer, Rockhound from Idaho, loved to spend his vacation time at their digging stones. And he was further underneath and he died on impact.

So there's customers up there. Sad part of this story is there was another customer, Rockhound from Idaho, loved to spend his vacation time at their digging stones. And he was further underneath and he died on impact.

Huge. Imagine 10 feet tall, 15 feet long, just falling down. It crashes down on me. I think, oh, this is going to be like an avalanche. Let me try and get my hands up to my face, create an air pocket. I try and turn away and everything goes black. I am not my body. I am immediately just in the universe having a conversation. There is no sense of time. My body does not exist.

Huge. Imagine 10 feet tall, 15 feet long, just falling down. It crashes down on me. I think, oh, this is going to be like an avalanche. Let me try and get my hands up to my face, create an air pocket. I try and turn away and everything goes black. I am not my body. I am immediately just in the universe having a conversation. There is no sense of time. My body does not exist.

Huge. Imagine 10 feet tall, 15 feet long, just falling down. It crashes down on me. I think, oh, this is going to be like an avalanche. Let me try and get my hands up to my face, create an air pocket. I try and turn away and everything goes black. I am not my body. I am immediately just in the universe having a conversation. There is no sense of time. My body does not exist.

I have all the time in the world to decide whether I want to live or die. It was just this really comforting place to be. There was no panic. There was just, oh, here's a decision I get to make. Wow. And so I'm having this conversation with the universe. Other people talk about white lights and life reviews and their near-death experiences. I didn't get any of that.

I have all the time in the world to decide whether I want to live or die. It was just this really comforting place to be. There was no panic. There was just, oh, here's a decision I get to make. Wow. And so I'm having this conversation with the universe. Other people talk about white lights and life reviews and their near-death experiences. I didn't get any of that.

I have all the time in the world to decide whether I want to live or die. It was just this really comforting place to be. There was no panic. There was just, oh, here's a decision I get to make. Wow. And so I'm having this conversation with the universe. Other people talk about white lights and life reviews and their near-death experiences. I didn't get any of that.

It was just me saying, yeah, I don't think I'm quite done yet. I've got some things I'd like to do. There was one particular sentence that I said, which was, I haven't been a judge yet. At the time, I was political science, pre-law. And the minute I said that sentence... I was back in my body and it was just like instantaneous. It felt like I was in that space for like 10, 15 minutes.