They're the same ones who stand on the beach to watch a tidal wave--this is Darwin's answer to defective "common sense" genes.

There was an old guy who refused to leave his home on the mountain in the first eruption--Harry Truman. One hopes his death was fast and painless. Many of the others who died in the first eruption probably weren't so lucky. Only fools intentionally get so close to something that big, hoping they live a charmed life.

SRS