The most self centered thing I've ever heard: One of my friends was in the hospital for 6 months after a car accident, with about 20 broken bones and some brain damage, and the whole time she was in there her mother kept asking the doctors how soon she would die so she could collect the insurance. (True story - I've known this woman 15 years. After she left the hospital she refused to ever see her mother again, and movedin with her grandparents, whom I've met.) So that would be the most self-centered thing I can think of.
The most extreme self-preservation thing I can think of is the story of... oh, what was her name? Mary something. *looks it up* Mary Ingles. 1755, Virginia. This woman and her three kids (Well, 2 kids and she was pregnant) were kidnapped by Shawnee Indians. The accepted her kids into the tribe but she was kept as a slave by two white traders who lived there. Eventually she left by herself, leaving her infant baby with another lactating woman, and walked 1000 back to her home. She had to preserve herself, even if it meant leaving her kids with "savages." http://www.geocities.com/~landerparker/ingles.html
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Date: 2005-04-18 10:30 pm (UTC)The most extreme self-preservation thing I can think of is the story of... oh, what was her name? Mary something. *looks it up* Mary Ingles. 1755, Virginia. This woman and her three kids (Well, 2 kids and she was pregnant) were kidnapped by Shawnee Indians. The accepted her kids into the tribe but she was kept as a slave by two white traders who lived there. Eventually she left by herself, leaving her infant baby with another lactating woman, and walked 1000 back to her home. She had to preserve herself, even if it meant leaving her kids with "savages."
http://www.geocities.com/~landerparker/ingles.html