So if you NEVER said that:
Boulderjohn really never said that. What he has been trying to explain to you so patiently and repeatedly was explained by him quite nicely way back in post # 91:
DAN's study of ascent rates found taht a 30 fpm ascent rate was marginally better than a 60 fpm ascent rate, but that safety stops were more important than either.
Diving practices have changed dramatically over the last 40 years. The practices many of us consider too risky or unsafe now were common practice back then. Much of the gear we take for granted now and that makes our diving easier/safer was not even thought of back then. Back then, you just tried not to ascend faster than your bubbles, I believe. Once you drew your last breath, you used your reserve just to get to the surface, no matter what depth you were at. Most of those divers did just fine for many years.
Unless you are a very new diver, most divers were probably trained to ascend at 60 feet per minute. Even now, many computers have a built-in expected ascent rate of 60 feet per minute until you get to 30 fsw, where it becomes 30 feet per minute. Throw in different versions of deep stops over dive history, graduated ascents, safety stops being 15 or 20 feet deep depending on training/computer, and extended safety stops, and you have a whole lot of change in recreational diving. None of it was wrong before. The sport has simply evolved to minimize the inherent risk.
The bottom line is that if you were negligent enough:
* in your gas management
* or your buddy awareness that you lost your buddy and extra gas
* or you were ill-equipped/trained/experienced to dive solo
* and you have no gas available to you at the depth you're at,
you do whatever you can as slowly as you can to get to the surface alive.
If you can't manage to ascend any slower than 60 feet per minute, history shows that your chance of surviving is just fine.
If you run out of gas at 20 feet, you will react differently than if you "run out" of gas at 130 feet (or deeper or in an overhead envt). How you respond is your own decision that you will have to live with - or not.