Have you heard about the survival television show host who drank his own pee to stay alive?

How about the old adage that moss always grows on the north side of a tree? Or that sucking venom out of a snake bite is a good idea? Or using a tourniquet to stop bleeding should be one of your first actions when addressing trauma?

As with anything in life, you never say never, but in every case mentioned above, the fundamental logic behind each assertion, even that it is safe to drink your own pee, is wrong.

Too often, as survival topics have become more popular, misconceptions, myths and downright zany ideas have been repeated enough so as to become dogma.

To see some other survival myths that at best are wrong and at worst can kill you, check out the next page.

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