""So then...would you throw yourself on a grenade to save wounded people who would otherwise be killed? Would you pull a child from in front of an oncoming train, knowing that YOU wouldn't make it? Would you give up your seat in a lifeboat to someone older than you? If you wouldn't die for an idea, would you die for another person?""

I suspect that none of us can answer that question, simply because these are situations in which the saviour is usually making a split second decision withought conscious thought and so risking his life without the time to assess that risk.

Not so much "I'm going to die to save that kid", as "Oh Shit, I thought I could make it!"

Don T.