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** Also sometimes there will be truly absolutely no other choice you can make other then the one you are given no matter how bad it may be. No matter how much you want to look for a better solution there isn't always going to be one.

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** Also sometimes there will be truly absolutely no other choice you can make other then the one you are given no matter regardless of how bad it may be.be or how much you don't want to do it. No matter how much you want to look for a better solution there isn't always going to be one.
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** Also sometimes there will be truly absolutely no other choice you can make other then the one you are given no matter how bad it may be. No matter how much you want to look for a better solution there isn't always going to be one.
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* ExplosiveDecompression: Marilyn describes how people die this way in space, and is disturbed that her family will have that mental image of her demise.
-->“I wish—” She swallowed. “The way I’ll die — I wish they wouldn’t ever think of that. I’ve read how people look who die in space — their insides all ruptured and exploded and their lungs out between their teeth and then, a few seconds later, they’re all dry and shapeless and horribly ugly. I don’t want them to ever think of me as something dead and horrible like that.”
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The whole point of the story is to avert this trope. Marilyn can't be saved and attempting something risky when much more is at stake than just her is irresponsible and irrational.

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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The whole point of the story is to avert this trope. Marilyn can't be saved saved, neither a brilliant technical solution nor a noble self-sacrifice is possible. The only choice is whether to kill her, or to force Barton and attempting something risky when much more is at stake than just her is irresponsible and irrational.the survey team to die along with her.

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