History Series / IShouldntBeAlive

* EatTheDog: Not that the survivor in "Alone In the Amazon" had a choice.

** Benedict Allen is alive, but he had to EatTheDog.

** Lorenzo in "Death in the sea of Cortez" is obese - but he clearly was trying hard. Unfortunately, he suffered ''two'' sprained ankles, and because of this, his two friends jerry-rigged a raft so they could move him around easier. [[spoiler: He doesn't make it.]]
* MissingChild: this is especially the case with stories that involve children:

* PragmaticAdaptation: Shannon [=McGough=] was five years old during the events documented in "A Father's Worst Nightmare", but is given an AgeLift in the reenactments, played an actress who looked closer to ten years old.

** "A Dad's Worse Nightmare" has the father with his daughter go off the trail to go fishing.

* NoAntagonist: The stories are gripping survival stories, with no antagonist beyond "Nature".

''I Shouldn't Be Alive'' is a {{documentary}} series produced for Creator/DiscoveryChannel, seasons 1-2, and Creator/AnimalPlanet, seasons 3-6, by UK-based production company Darlow Smithson Productions. As the title implies, it features accounts of individuals or groups caught in dangerous scenarios away from civilization in natural environments.

* DaylightHorror: A lot of the events happen in daytime, ''especially'' in "Horror in the Grand Canyon".
* {{Determinator}}: Otherwise known as "the drive to survive." Examples include crawling for miles when unable to walk in minus fifteen degrees, scaling a cliff with a shattered pelvis, fending off wild beasts with only one working arm after being mauled by a crocodile and hiking for two days down a mountain with a broken ankle, not to mention sometimes lasting weeks without food and over twenty-four hours without water. One women even forced herself to do one sit-up every five seconds for six hours to stave off hypothermia during the night.

''I Shouldn't Be Alive'' is a {{documentary}} series produced for Creator/DiscoveryChannel, seasons 1-2, and ''Creator/AnimalPlanet'' seasons 3-6, by UK-based production company Darlow Smithson Productions. As the title implies, it features accounts of individuals or groups caught in dangerous scenarios away from civilization in natural environments.

''I Shouldn't Be Alive'' is a {{documentary}} series produced for Creator/DiscoveryChannel by UK-based production company Darlow Smithson Productions. As the title implies, it features accounts of individuals or groups caught in dangerous scenarios away from civilization in natural environments.

* UnreliableNarrator: Due to the fact that a few people had GoneMadFromTheIsolation temporarily, it's hard to believe how much could be true and how much is them describing their madness. Especially on Cozumel island.

* {{Determinator}}: Otherwise known as "the drive to survive." Examples include crawling for miles when unable to walk in minus fifteen degrees, scaling a cliff with a shattered pelvis, fending off wild beasts with only one working arm after being mauled by a crocodile and hiking for two days down a mountain with a broken ankle, not to mention sometimes lasting weeks without food and over twenty-four hours without water. One women even forced herself to do sit-ups every five seconds for six hours to stave off hypothermia during the night.

* {{Determinator}}: Otherwise known as "the drive to survive." Examples include crawling for miles when unable to walk in minus fifteen degrees, scaling a cliff with a shattered pelvis, fending off wild beasts with only one working arm after being mauled by a crocodile and hiking for two days down a mountain with a broken ankle, not to mention sometimes lasting weeks without food and over twenty-four hours without water.

* BornLucky: Justin in "Crashed in the Rockies" has the best of luck and the [[BornUnlucky worst of luck]]. He survives a plane crash unscathed, hikes out and manages to get help... and then the rescue helicopter crashes.... but ''[[UpToEleven he survives that too!]]''

* InternetStalking: In "Chasm of Death" the wife of one of the missing men manages to figure out where they are by going through her husband's internet history.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The lush island of Réunion serves as a double for the Mexican island of Cozumel in "Lost in the Jungle", as revealed in the episode's credits. While it makes for pretty scenery, it leads to a bit of dishonesty, in that it doesn't properly represent the sort of terrain on Cozumel. Cozumel has a much smaller rainforest compared to Réunion, and also lacks the tall cliffs and depressions seen in the episode's aerial panning shots.

* AdultFear: All over the place but this is especially the case with stories that involve children:
** An example of this is where, when they were lost and the son unable to walk, the father had to leave the son in a cave to find help, and this was when it was very cold, and with the snow no less.
** In much that same vein, we have the episode "A Dad's Worst Nightmare", where the father is stranded with his five year old daughter in the Australian Outback. Seeing her suffer and worrying about how she would cope on her own if something happened to him caused him much more emotional and mental stress than if he had been on his own.
** "A Father's Deadly Dilemma" presents the father getting injured and, because he's injured, his daughter has to venture through the wilderness to find help.
** "Lost in the Snow," a couple towing their baby in a makeshift sled have a brief moment of terror after they realise he's stopped crying, fearing that he has succumbed to the cold.

* HappilyMarried: Tom and Lynda Bosworth who break down in the desert and newlyweds Brandon and Brandy Wiley who survive a plane crash in the jungle.

* TooDesperateTooBePicky: When faced with starvation, people will eat anything they can get their hands on, raw or otherwise. They will also drink from any water source available. It's pointed out that if it's a choice between drinking dirty water or not at all, you'll have a better chance of surviving if you do.