For 40 years Russian family was living in total isolation

I've read about this before but not with as much detail as this link provides. Crazy!

 

Sounds like bliss.

 

Wow, what a tragic story.

 

I don't know if I think it's really tragic. I mean...there are some very admirable parts to this and some kind of sad parts. It's so unusual that it's hard to put into perspective.

 

Amazing story, thanks for posting it

 

The mom dying of starvation so her kids would live, then all of the kids except one dying from kidney failure hits me right in the feels.

 

That does suck but they just had lives that 99.9% of us can't even relate to. I can see where they obviously missed out but also gained from being so isolated. In the original account that I read, it said that they died from immune system failures after being contacted by the outside world. This article says different. I don't know what happened but the Smithsonian seems kind of credible to me.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68"]Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length) - YouTube

 

SPOILER alert


i think it's tragic that dimitri died of pneumonia because of his religion


very cool read

 

i like vice news.. theres another one about a dude way down in the southern tip of chile not far from the arctic who lived in isolation for 40 years