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How to Amputate Your Own Arm Like Aron Ralston in '127 Hours'

(Aug. 26) -- In "127 Hours," the new film by Danny Boyle, James Franco plays Aron Ralston, the mountaineer who (SPOILER ALERT!) was forced to amputate his own arm after he got it trapped between a fallen boulder and a sandstone wall while solo-climbing a Utah canyon back in '03. Watch more YouTube videos on AOL...

With Arm Stuck in Boiler, Man Contemplated Suicide

(June 22) -- The Connecticut man who tried self-amputation after his arm got stuck in his boiler says he contemplated suicide during the two days he was trapped in his basement and attempted to say goodbye to his loved ones by writing a note in his own splattered blood. In an interview broadcast today, Jonathan Metz, 31,...

Trying to Cut Off Arm Was 'Near-Death Experience'

(June 16) -- He wondered, "What would MacGyver do?" Then he spent six hours working up the nerve to do it. The 31-year-old Connecticut man whose arm was stuck in a furnace boiler for two days realized that cutting off the limb was the only way he'd live. Jonathan Metz, who nearly cut off his left arm last week, was...