Help How likely are you to survive a fall of a buliding

[aerithmaze]

I know it depends on height and things, but if you go head first or if you do something in particular could you not survive?

 

[DanielDanDean]

How could you be sure to fall head first?

 

[bl00deater]

Had a friend jump off a building, broke a couple of bones, It's completely height based I think

 

[2pillbottles]

I know it depends on height and things, but if you go head first or if you do something in particular could you not survive?

what height are you asking about? it very much depends how you land, i heard thwre was someone who jumped 37 floors and actually survived, who knows their pshycial state though :(

 

[aerithmaze]

How could you be sure to fall head first?

ah, true its hard to make sure

 

[NegevChina]

There is lots of discussion about this method here on SanSu at the Jumping From Height (Guide)

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/jumping-from-height-guide.47978/

 

[Intoxicated]

Is there a typo in the thread title? "Fall of a building" sounds scary.

 

[TAW122]

It's pretty likely if one doesn't immediately land on one's head and also depends on the surface (hard surface, body of water, etc.). Overall, I don't consider it to be a reliable method and also one's SI may kick in resulting in one landing on one's feet, surviving with horrific injuries and possibly permanent damage (vegetable, paralysis, etc.)

 

[NegevChina]

How could you be sure to fall head first?

I've actually came up with a method to achieve this.
I've posted it in the Jumping From Height (Guide)

Jumping From Height (Guide)

I shall jump to my death 4 months from now and am warming myself up. Just want to share what I've learned if some of you plan to use this method. Pros: + If done correctly, spinal cord will be severed or brain will be destroyed on impact resulting in a peaceful death + Requires nothing and is...

sanctioned-suicide.net

See the last two posts in the thread.

 

[finallydone]

i read somewhere that if you fall directly on your head from any place 5 meters or higher is 100% fatal

 

[Unspoken7612]

The LD50 is about 15m, or four storeys. The LD90 is 25m, or seven storeys. So about 10% of people who fall from seven storeys survive - it's dangerous, but not truly reliable.

Fall from heights: does height really matter? - European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

Introduction Fall from heights is high energy injuries and constitutes a fraction of all fall-related trauma evaluations while bearing an increase in morbidity and mortality. We hypothesize that despite advancements in trauma care, the overall survivability has not improved in this subset of...

link.springer.com

Those heights will become much lower when the head is the primary injury.

 

[NegevChina]

i read somewhere that if you fall directly on your head from any place 5 meters or higher is 100% fatal

That makes sense. When I was 4 yo I fell on my shoulder and head from about 2.5 m. Broke my collar bone and fractured my scull. Somehow survived it. I guess 5m directly on my head would have finished me then already. To bad I was only injured.