Discussion How did she die from jumping barely 25-30 feet ?

[Painless_end]

So this woman committed suicide in my city in 2020 (edit it was not 2018 as I mentioned earlier). She died from jumping off this low road crossing bridge shown in the picture onto the road below.

How could she have died from such a short height ? She was under 30.

 

[Oyoy]

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So this woman committed suicide in my city in 2018. She died from jumping off this low road crossing bridge shown in the picture onto the road below.

How could she have died from such a short height ? She was under 30.

I bet she landed on her head.

 

[Indieblue]

Sometimes people don't die even after jumping off 17 floors. I read an article and a guy was survived. .......by landing on a tree first. Poor guy.

 

[Indieblue]

This event can directly be inferred onto people who are suicidal.

If you shouldn't try to keep a guy alive who survived after jumping seventeen floors, then you shouldn't try to keep someone alive who has been suicidal for a long period of time.

I can only imagine his feelings after that event. I bet he tried again.

He was actually a teenager. It was probably an impulsive act, thus leading to failure. Solid asphalt floor or rocky mountain floor seems the best way to go. And the planning. The most important part.

Edit: and it is probably the reason there are many trees planted in front of apartments.

 

[Potiphera]

If you shouldn't try to keep a guy alive who survived after jumping seventeen floors, then you shouldn't try to keep someone alive who has been suicidal for a long period of time.

Yep. There comes a time in chronic physical illnesses when doctors will say "there's no more we can do" and even if euthanasia is not an option, at least everyone will admit the person's suffering cannot be relieved.

Yet somehow, all mental and emotional suffering is seen to be bearable, if not curable, with enough "support".

 

[Jean4]

The same way people can drown in a bathtub. The way the individual landed. There is more likely to die at a higher night, but landing has a lot to do with it also.

 

[MaybeSoon]

You can die by falling over and hitting your head on the pavement.

25-30ft is pretty significant if you land head first.

 

[Onlyborrowedtime]

Literally any number of reasons why it worked for her. Was she Ill before hand? How did she land? Did the impact kill her or did she die after?

It's the same reason people fall out of planes and survive with no parachute.

Everyone is different. Something like 1% of people who jump off the golden gate bridge end up surviving and that's higher than the recommended 200ft

 

[Sweet_Lullaby]

Like people previously said, she may have fallen on her head. If you hit your head on the right spot, even tripping while you're walking can be enough for you to die.

 

[MoreThanAFeeling]

Falling backwards, keeping the body straight and hitting the pavement head first.

 

[JSRF]

Jumping from that height will guarantee you at least some broken bones and inner bleedings. If 100 people jumped from there, more would probably die than survive.

 

[Elias]

You can die by badly falling from stairs. It's all about the landing.

 

[Midnight-rain]

She got lucky. Personally I wouldn't risk jumping because there's too many variables to consider.

 

[Jessica5]

Honestly, I think a big factor in survival is whether or not the doctors are twisted enough to "save" you and leave you as a quadripeligic when it's clear that you already hated life when you weren't quadripeligic. I honestly wonder if 100% of doctors will actually try to "save" you in this situation.

Unforunately, you don't have a lot of control over what the doctors do.

 

[gnomeboy17]

the doctors are twisted enough to "save" you and leave you as a quadripeligic when it's clear that you already hated life when you weren't quadripeligic.

Pretty sure there's some legal "duty of care" that means they have to force you to live with severe disabilities rather than let you die as you wish. It is a horrible rule. If someone wants to die to an extent they took steps themselves, no one should have the right to get in the way of that

 

[calendulo]

I do not understand the post. 30 feet are around 9 metres.

Five or six months ago happened the same case in other city.
A teenager who suffered bullying in the high school, jumping from her home until the backyard at night.
4 stories ergo 10 or 12 metres.
She dead.

 

[the box is empty]

Pretty sure there's some legal "duty of care" that means they have to force you to live with severe disabilities rather than let you die as you wish. It is a horrible rule. If someone wants to die to an extent they took steps themselves, no one should have the right to get in the way of that

"I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course " - Hippocrates

Almost all doctors have to adhere to some variation of the Hippocratic Oath. It's been that way for centuries. They have to save lives regardless. We can't let them decide when it doesn't apply, that just opens up a whole other legal can of worms.

 

[Ardesevent]

Like a lot of other people have said, it depends on a lot of things.
If she fell on her head, she probably died almost instantly.
If this is a pretty big city, the ambulance might have taken a long time to get there, giving her some time to bleed out.
There's a chance she had a illness, or a previous injury she was recovering from too.

 

[Suez]

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So this woman committed suicide in my city in 2020 (edit it was not 2018 as I mentioned earlier). She died from jumping off this low road crossing bridge shown in the picture onto the road below.

How could she have died from such a short height ? She was under 30.

Its not so much the height that determines whether someone lives or dies, but things like the way in which their body hits the ground, what they landed on, things like age come into it too.

 

[Jessica5]

Pretty sure there's some legal "duty of care" that means they have to force you to live with severe disabilities rather than let you die as you wish. It is a horrible rule. If someone wants to die to an extent they took steps themselves, no one should have the right to get in the way of that

What they're supposed to do and what they do might be two different stories.

There was a case in the UK where doctors let a woman who swallowed antifreeze die. It was actually pretty much agreed upon that the woman could have survived with few if any long term affects, but they let her die anyway. And, if you can believe it or not, the doctors got cleared by some kind of ethics board. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/175114371301400307

Although I would suspect something like that is less likely in the US, due to our greater religiosity.