The Will to Survive
Sometimes, the only way to survive is the willingness to live. A documentary on Alison Botha.
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On the 18th of December 1994, 27-year-old Alison Botha was confronted by a man with a knife in Port Elizabeth South Africa.
He forced her into a car and the man and his friend drove Alison to a lonely area where they both rapped her.
Rapping her didn't satisfy the men, so they decided to kill her. At first, they tried to suffocate her. But even though she lost consciousness, Botha clung to life.
The men went ahead to stab her 37 times in her abdomen. They disemboweled her —that is, cut open her abdomen leaving her internal organs to be falling out.
They thought she had died, but when Alison's leg twitched, they decided the job wasn’t quite done yet. They then slit her throat — 16 times.
Convinced that she had died, the attackers left her, but by some miracle, the whole stabbing and slashing had missed Alison's main arteries.
Determined to live, Alison decided to craw to a nearby road. Movement was hard because her head was falling backward and her organs were spilling from her abdomen.
She help her head with one hand, and then her organs with another; she made it to the road, where she collapsed on the white marking. As she had hoped, someone saw her and two hours later she was in the hospital.
A doctor in the hospital said, about Allison's injuries, that he’d never seen such severe injuries in his 16 years of practicing medicine.
Alison went ahead to make a full recovery. She had written a book and is now a motivational speaker.
Her attackers were later caught; Alison recognized them easily, and they were sentenced to jail for life.
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