In this essay, I will investigate Ripley’s three stage process of survival and how her research can also be used to explain the case of the 16 survivors from the Miracle of the Andes incident after their FairchildFH-227D crashed. Throughout the book, she is in search of clear patterns that make up human behavior that come into play during these occasions and sums the experience up by giving a three-stage process denial, deliberation and the proverbial decisive moment. Ripley points out that during moments of disaster it is common for people to think irrationally even when danger is looming. In this modern masterpiece, she offers a handbook that would aid victims of disasters get out alive by understanding the how the human body reacts during these high-stress situations and the steps that should be followed survive such an ordeal. Ripley makes a living as a high-ranking writer for the Time magazine covering homeland security and risk. The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley offers an elaborate evaluation of what happens to an individual during a disaster, before the arrival of help from emergency personnel and the structure that can be imposed on the situation being experienced.
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