ESPN's - Death By Wingsuit 

Thank you. I really needed this right about now. Dealing with medical issues myself , what was thought to be lupus is looking more like me and it’s only getting worse. It’s takes almost everything from me and still continues. I’m tired of the surgeries and hospital stays. I’m tired of the pain and feeling of defeat. I’m awake at 3 am unable to sleep as always watching cool videos and I come across yours. You have no idea what this just did for me. Thank you. Bless you for being such a strong person and sharing your story. I wish you a speedy recovery. ❤️✌🏽

Hats off to ya

Every once in awhile there's a video on RU-vid that's worth watching... This is one of those... Inspirational doesn't even begin to tell the story... Thank you for posting... God bless

We are with you. may God always be with you injoy your life

What can I say, this fellow is right, the destination is not the goal, its how we get there. I paraglide, it is exactly how he says, no thought for fears or life outside. Just the moment, the good and bad, but almost all good. When something bad happens, it happens so fast you don't have time to think but only react. I suffer extreme depression and anxiety. When I paraglide, it all goes away. I am who and what I should have been. Life is great. I love this man.

Proud of you brother Daniel

The saddest thing in this video is his early decision to forego treatment. Five years out from receiving a six month prognosis, his decision looks pretty smart. But, as fortunate as it is, his outcome is pure luck, and luck is not a good strategy for conducting your life. I've spent 45 of my 70 years diagnosing and treating cancer, and the only thing that I know with certainty is that there's almost universal misunderstanding of cancer, even among most people in healthcare. All cancers start with a single cell undergoing a malignant transformation. We currently have absolutely no idea how many individual malignant transformations take place within each human body every year, but I believe that it is in the hundreds, if not thousands. The body's immune system finds almost every single one of these transformations, and immediately initiates a good guy/bad guy battle with the uncontrolled cells. In the vast majority of cases, the body wins immediately, snuffing out the malignancy before it becomes apparent to anyone. In many cases, however, the battle is not so one-sided, and sometimes the malignant cells are able to fend off the attacks by the immune system long enough for it to be noticed, and acquire the label of "cancer", or "sarcoma", or one of the many malignancies of the hematologic and reticuloendothelial systems. These tend to get lumped under the label "cancer" which isn't strictly etymologically correct, but it's convenient. Once cancer has gotten to that point, it usually wins the game unless outside forces (i.e. medical treatment) are able to tip the balance enough so that the immune system can get the upper hand and finish the job. It is this dynamic, back-and-forth nature of the malignancy/immune system battle that makes it so confusing. The medical literature is brimming with reports of cancers that were progressing, and then seemed to spontaneously give up and wither away. Unfortunately, it is the nature of the mind of Homo sapiens to create cause and effect relationships everywhere an effect is noted with out a cause assigned. In the case of cancer, we usually assign credit for the victory to the treatment last employed or, increasingly, the treatment most vocally employed, which is usually the treatment for which that credit is fervently desired. And the desire usually comes from political, spiritual and social forces which feel that they have a dog in the fight. The result is that, if someone appears to be dying of pancreatic cancer, and the balance of power spontaneously shifts to the immune system resulting in survival, credit usually goes to the coffee enemas, or the crystal worn around the neck, or the near lethal doses of vitamins ingested. Or to the same God who gave him the cancer in the first place. We are a curious bunch, humans. We go to great lengths not to see truth standing right in front of us because, apparently, we don't like that particular truth.

Wish you the best

Keep fighting, keep living on the edge. I too have cancer and I live on the edge my way. God bless you

God bless you Sir

I lived with a poop bag for several years in my mid 20s. I continued to surf with the bag. The surgery was the only option for survival and I expected to have the bag for life. A few years after the initial surgery a new procedure was offered that restored near normal function. I have since fathered three sons and surfed into my early 50s until arthritis stopped me. If I hadn’t had the original surgery I would have died a very painful death. Poop bags aren’t the end of the world.

Awesome story. Loved it

That was powerful. Daniel, here’s wishing you complete remission and a long, fascinating journey.

Hope he lives a FULL and awesome life!

He literally scared cancer into remission.

o man...that moment of the jump looking down...no chute...no tether...nothing....free

I used to skydive with Jim Paulson. He was one of the original designers of the Wing Suit. He passed away a few years back but his creation still carries on. RIP Jim,,,

Your doing the right thing. Live!!!

I was given a year to live 5 years ago with congestive heart failure. I fired the heart doctor, Read on line about a doctor and how he says you have to scare the hell out of your self at least once a day. He claimed natural adrenaline is the answer. 5 years latter he was right. Am not in the best shape but it sure beats where I was headed. I bought a GSX 750 Katana and did all kinds of high speed stuff to it, It does give you a scare of your life. Far as am concerned, It works.

Life is short, Break the rules, forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Sing like no one is listening & dance like no one is watching. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we`re here we should dance.

It's amazing and messed up sometimes with all the things that can happen to a person in life so always live life to the fullest because we're only here for short time, and God bless you brother!

Best wishes 🤞🏻🙏🏻

Good luck to you Bro. I started jumping in 1963 as a Paratrooper. Started Skydiving in 1966. Had the first Square in 1970, a Para Plane. Had to quit in 1972. Job related, no time. Diagnosed with Kidney Cancer and NHL in 1996. Started Skydiving again in 2013. Had to quit due to a fractured spine in 2015. Diagnosed with aggressive Lymphoma in 2016. went thru 3 rounds of Chemo. and 17 days of radiation. Oh how I miss the sport. Good luck to you and Blue Skies.

Wish you a long life man!

You are definitely an inspiration for all people to get up and do something with their lives. Good Luck mate!!

...you're more brave internally than the bravery it takes to jump in a wing suit!... best to you....

He has a beautiful Soul 💖

I would do same! Blue skies man!

i wish to you recovery and health

good luck Dan

At least you have peace of mind doing something you love. God Bless and good luck .

Smile back at death’s face. Don’t welcome it but don’t fear it. May God bless you and your people

God bless you brother and those around you. Take care and fly safe.

Bless you brother

All the best bro!

Daniel you're a winner my brother !

Fuck yeah live long brother

very brave man GOD be with you Daniel

Daniel I wish you Recovery, your an Inspiration.

Pushing away the thought of death by risking death

Live the dream my man.

I was unfortunate enough for my parachute not to work on three separate jumps, first two I managed to crash relatively safely last one I crashed and broke my legs (I should have bought a new parachute in hindsight). When I was in hospital the doctor found something odd in my testicles after looking at scans of my upper leg. This prompted him to investigate my testicles more thoroughly. He then asked me to get my partner to hospital before he broke the news to me, he said I’m sorry to tell you but you have the biggest set of balls I have ever seen, but they will end up killing you one day if you don’t stop jumping with the same parachute. Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and buy good equipment might save your life one day.

God Bless You Daniel! may you continue to be blessed with the gift of Human flight

God bless him.

Talk about a real super hero wow. My son died at the age of 19 from muscular dystrophy and this story has given me hope. Inspiration, hope pride is what i am left feeling. God bless.

Blue skies brother!

You inspire me to live every day as if it were my last, thank you for this!

Wow and God bless you brother.

Why would you need to clickbait such a nice video ?

May you live forever, but if not, then what a great way to go. Whichever way things go. You are a brave man and I truly wish you good luck

May you continue to Soar high above the ground. Mad Respect for you. Cheers.

Maravilloso..genial..estas mas vivo k los k no están enfermos....

Live your life to the fullest, you get one trip around.

sei il mio mito!

Well done brother - live and live until you cannot as it's over before you know it.

God bless you

Sorry to ask, but is he still alive?

Very sad. Good luck your in my prayers.

Good luck my friend

Go, buddy. Live big.

your the lucky one friend. im fighting same...one way or another, im gonna fly too

live long dude!

i had 18 weeks of chemo in late 2015. mantle cell non hodgkins lymphoma. i am also in remission.if i could do one thing before i get to the pearlie gates it would be to sky dive. at least once. nothing else to lose.

In happy he is getting better

Everyone should live like this... always

Superb

I hope I have the fucking balls to do this if I ever become terminally ill.

May God bless you and fix the cancer so you may do some good in this world. All the best.

Inspiring MIT Superman God Bless You

good for you man. daniel rodriguez you are my hero brother!

Inspiring video and beautifully shot! The journey is the "goal"

He's ok now ❤❤

This video I believe should be called life by wing suit! I also believe that the wing suit brought a lot of positivity to his life in many ways to release the healing chemicals in our brain. He surrounds himself with like minded individuals, friends. Nice story!

Best attitude ever we humans have a tendency to look at pessimistic thoughts over optimistic ones good luck on life

I can understand and relate. I have cancer.

The most dangerous sport on earth bar none.

Hopefully he'll end up living a REALLY long life lol just as a HUGE middle finger to his diagnosis. 👍

That's a big wow good luck fella ..many years of flying.

Find happiness my brother

Keep in the fight. Amazing story

Ironic how people start doing things that can potentially kill them faster after they find out they are going to die.

God bless

Maybe adrenaline is the best chemotherapy drug.

If all of us would live a life like our last day, we would see that life is one and that it is short and that it should be done and done by what we love, in one word they would be happy, I would like you to fight with this wicked disease and that you enjoy the longer you love it ... to be happy, and thank you for showing us what courage is and what life is and that everyone can be happy.

thanks for the most wonderful pictures, that looks like great fun. enjoy your time my friend!

Good for you sweetheart

3:17 : "Among the world's most dangerous sports, 620 people have died skydiving or base jumping". Come on guys... What are you doing? Don't lump skydiving with base-jumping. Skydiving is essentially kills no one, like ever. It is so safe, regulated, and has been getting safer year by year. It has procedures, authorities, qualifications...etc Base-jumping on the other hand is the big killer, and has almost none of these. On top of that, wingsuit base-jumping (as in this video) along with one of its sub-disciplines (more like a sub-sub-sub discipline) is probably responsible for 99% of all deaths. There are even many known base-jumpers notorious for speaking out against the lumping of BASE-JUMPING with WINGSUIT BASE-JUMPING because of the inaccurate representation of "standard" base-jumping's true fatality rates. So to put skydiving in the same sentence and numbers with base-jumping, on a video largely surrounding wingsuit base-jumping is just very lazy and very misleading.

great story good luck brother

Not human flight, human gliding.

you are an incredible person

May this man Rest In Peace, I’m a survivor myself. I’m one if the lucky ones who did treatment and and four years no evidence of disease.

I wish him the very best miracle remission Doctors have ever seen! 🙏🙏🙏💝💝💝

I understand that a radical change in lifestyle can heal and transform cancer.

Awesome outlook and approach to the way you want life.

I am a cancer survivor. My fiancé was a cancer survivor and then finally lost his battle. And I am a skydiver. And I understand.

At min. 03:17 the writing sais that skydiving and base jumping are among the world most dangerous sports. I think this can be said for these that jump between very narrow mountain walls, but not for standard skydiving as I have done for quite a few years.

way to go cowboy

Thank You Brother.

I've always wanted to base jump and fly a wingsuit, but my last name is actually " Splayt"... so I just don't think it is a good idea.

Very inspiring video. 👍