Retrieving him was a choice. This attitude that we have to rescue everybody from the backcountry whether dead or alive is silly. We could just leave the fools out there. At the very least, then we wouldn't have to put up with all these arguments about what you should or shouldn't do in the backcountry because of the externalities incurred when SAR gets involved.

someone is going to have to handle everyones

Civilized people walk into the incinerator alive.

I'd rather take my chance at being renewed in carousel than be terminated as a runner.