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The 33 Chilean miners had contemplated suicide and cannibalism

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The Drama of the Andes is the crash of Uruguayan Air Force flight, which occurred Friday, October 13, 1972.

P uring the first sixteen days following the collapse of the mine, thirty-three miners had to settle for rations of tuna. Almost all of today suffer from post-traumatic psychological disorders, says Dr. Franklin in his book Men 33 (" 33 men", not translated in French).

" Food or not, I thought I would get out of there ," said Mario Sepulveda, the second minor release of the mine in San Jose, in an interview broadcast Sunday in the newsmagazine "60 Minutes " from CBS. "How ? I wondered what was the miner who was unconscious at first and how I could eat it. I can promise you it does not bother me. It did not make me afraid. "

" They told me they had a saw and a pan ready," said Jonathan Franklin, a specialist in Chile, which was able to interview thirty-three miners. But the seventeenth day, rescuers come into contact with minors and begin to raise their food.

Victor Zamora was also told that the miners had experienced moments of deep distress, up to contemplate suicide, " If it was to continue to suffer, it was thought that this would also be good to go the refuge, start the engine and be done with carbon monoxide. "For minors, this gesture was not at that time, seen as a suicide, but as an issue:" It was to stop suffering. Anyway, we were going to die. "

Thirty-three miners spent sixty-nine days in a copper mine in northern Chile. Since their rescue, Oct. 13, they became world-famous celebrities.