Originally Posted by
Poguemahone
I don't want the folks at my funeral feeling like we (other friends and I) did at hers. I wanna go from natural causes and everybody have a big ol party, with lots of whiskey, memories, and no driving afterwards. I wanna put the "fun" back in funeral. Preferably when I'm 102.
well, if you keep on riding your bike, the odds of living longer will be in your favor.
As for that bad feeling at a funeral caused by a nagging guilt that a helmet might have made a difference, speaking from an area that does have an all-ages MHL, once you see helmeted cyclists die at the same rate as non-helmeted riders, you start to realize a helmet doesn't make a difference.
All the cyclists in my city that have died in the last 4 years were wearing helmets, and in the years since our MHL was passed, the exact same numbers have died post, as pre-law. The same numbers of helmeted have died as non-helmeted.
The express purpose of our law was to reduce deaths to cyclists. Since this hasn't happened, I'd say the law is a failure.