Chewydog, I think that it's law in Tennessee that you have to make a creditable effort to rescue a person near you who is in dire threat of death if it can be done without undue risk to yourself. In other words, if you are being washed down a flooded stream past me and I have a rope, I have to try to throw one end out to you and help drag you in. I do NOT have to get into the water myself. I don't know if that law got passed. There are some Good Samaritan laws, whic protect people trying to help others in crisis.

In a way I think that it is sad that we need to have laws to mandate basic, civilized behavior. But then, I guess that there are laws against homicide in every country.


Ed