{"id":13682,"key":"Six_ways_to_die","title":"Six ways to die","latest":{"id":1208296,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T23:53:11Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Project data\n| authors = Vinay Gupta\n}}\n\n'''Six ways to die''' ('''6WTD''') is a simple model by [http://hexayurt.com/plan Vinay Gupta] which helps explain what needs to get done in a crisis. It explains some basic concepts about how infrastructure works in normal life and disaster. If you're interested in social resilience, crisis response and similar situations.\n\n'''It is part of the [http://www.archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/START_HERE__Dealing_in_Security__Simple_Critical_Infrastructure_Maps__July2010.pdf Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps] system. Please see that link for full details.'''\n\nThe six ways to die are:\n\n* '''too hot''' (see [[cooling]] and [[shelter]])\n* '''too cold''' (see [[heating]] and [[shelter]])\n* ''thirst'' (see [[water supply]] and [[water purification]])\n* ''hunger'' (see [[food]], [[agriculture]], [[organic and sustainable farming]], and [[permaculture]])\n* ''illness'' (see [[public health]] and [[Portal:Medical Devices|medical devices]])\n* ''injury'' (see medical treatment - planned for late 2011/early 2012)\n\nRough estimates of the threat in each area can be made, and systems or behaviors added to the situation to keep people safe. If people are not dying of one of these causes, they are not likely to be dying at any rate above baseline mortality.\n\nThe Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps system expands the Six Ways To Die model to address the minimum functional needs of Groups, Organizations and States as follows:\n\n* '''Individual''' Too Hot, Too Cold, Hunger, Thirst, Illness, Injury (solved by Shelter, Supply and Safety/Services)\n* '''Groups''' Communications, Transport, Workspace - Resource Control\n* '''Organizations''' Shared Map, Shared Plan, Shared Succession Model (to change leadership)\n* '''States''' Effective Organizations, List of People, Map of Territories, International Recognition, Legal Jurisdiction\n\nThis model forms the core of the [State in A Box (SIAB) http://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php] approach to State Failure, which envisages pushing much State responsibility down to the municipal and urban levels, and some of the remaining complex function (currency, identity) up to the international level, leaving a simplified-but-stable State which is capable of continuity in complex contingencies. The system is aimed at fragile states.\n\n== Six Ways To Die briefing ==\n\nA five minute clip of Vinay Gupta explaining \"Six Ways To Die\".\n\n{{Video|1778884|platform=Vimeo}}\n\n== See also ==\n\n* 6WTD 2009\n\n== External links ==\n\n* Video: [http://files.howtolivewiki.com/reykjavik_briefing/ The Reykjavik Briefing: Distributed Infrastucture, Disaster Relief and Hexayurts]. (The video near the top is the same as in [[#Six Ways To Die briefing]] above.)\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Logistics, Industrial ecology, Energy efficiency, Energy, Emergency management, Environmental philosophy, Industry, Sustainability, Waste management\n| organizations = Hexayurt\n| description = Appropedia explores Vinay Gupta’s “Six Ways to Die,” a model for preparing communities to handle crisis and build resilience.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Health and safety videos]]\n[[Category:Energy efficiency]]\n[[Category:Energy]]\n[[Category:Emergency management]]\n[[Category:Environmental philosophy]]\n[[Category:Industry]]\n[[Category:Sustainability]]\n[[Category:Waste management]]"}