Serves. Her. Right.

With tiresome regularity, we read about some nitwit (some late and likely lamented by their friends and family nitwit) who has died in the service of attempting the ultimate selfie. (Thus turning it into the ultimate selfie.) Surely these nitwits are aware of Photoshop, which would allow them to create and Insta a pic of themselves on the edge of the Grand Canyon, hanging off of the Golden Gate Bridge, or whatever. Sure, there wouldn’t be the thrill of the “get”. But the nitwit would still be alive.

Then there was the recent incident in which some fellow proposed to his girlfriend underwater. They were staying in an underwater hotel room – yes there are such things – and he showed up at their window with a plastic-covered note asking for his girlfriend’s hand. He never got to hear her answer, as he drowned on the way to the surface. To add to the misfortune, his note read in part: "I can't hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you.” Oof.

I actually feel a bit bad for this couple, but so many people get swept up into the desire to do something and present themselves in a unique way. That unique way, as often as not, is pretty risky business.

Of course, not everyone who engages in risky business pays the ultimate price.

But sometimes they do pay some sort of a price. And if you like taking sea cruises on Royal Caribbean, being banned from that cruise line for life may well be the penultimate price. Or at least the antepenultimate price.

The person who is paying the Royal Caribbean price is unnamed, but she’s a young woman who a fellow passenger spotted posing on “a narrow ledge outside of her room’s balcony.”

Fellow traveler Nick Blosic spotted the unidentified woman in a swimsuit pulling the pose during a Caribbean cruise onboard the Allure of the Seas earlier this week.

“While on my balcony, I saw the woman climb on her railing. It happened so quickly. Not knowing what her intentions were, I alerted the crew,” Blosic told CNN. “If I said nothing, and she was going to jump, that would be horrible.”

The ship’s security staff traced the woman and a companion she was traveling with. The ship’s officials removed the pair when the vessel docked in the port of Falmouth Jamaica, USA Today reported.

Both were banned from sailing with the company for the rest of their lives. (Source: HuffPo)

Plus the duo had to pay their own way home from Jamaica. And they may face criminal charges. Although if being stupid were a criminal offense…

At least this nitwit lived to tell her tale.

The consequences of an ill-conceived photo can be dire. Last year, researchers tallied 259 people who died while taking selfies over a six-year period. Causes of death ranged from drowning to falling to electrocution, their study said, and victims tended to be young. (Source: Washington Post)

“…the victims tended to be young.” Ya think? If there’s one thing us olds have over the youngs it’s the wisdom not to snap a supposedly “clever” life-defining/death defying picture.

I do take an occasional selfie. Like the one I took last February of the black eye I got in a kitchen fall. Or the one I took of myself on Election Day 2016 in my white shirt and Hillary cap. (Sigh.) But mostly I don’t have great selfie “platform skills.” I also lack the desire to see my face splashed across social media. And, oh yeah, have no audience that would be interested in seeing it, even if I did want to make a splash.

Speaking of splash, that nitwit posing on the upper-story balcony on the Allure of the Sea was just lucky that she didn’t make a splash.

Getting banned for life by Royal Caribbean? Serves. Her. Right.