the last to leave, and as you say, he is a practicing buddhist, was a buddhist monk, and it s thought that he is being the calming influence, and also that he may have given up a lot of his food at the beginning to keep the boys strong. and it looks like for nine days before anyone got to them, they were living on maybe whatever meager supplies he had or they had, and also the rainwater inside the cave. you can imagine, number one, that they were weak, and number two, there were disysentery issues, which is why at the beginning they gave them energy gel and only days after that they went on rifried rice and se kind of solid food. i think it s the doctors probably who will have made the decision which boys to bring out first. and i think medically it would make sense for the weakest to