Jumping off a cliff

[WaitingAllMyLife]

I'm just curious - why don't we read about jumping off a cliff more often? Seems like it would be an excellent option.

 

[puppyboy]

Fear of heights and SI probably. Also many people might not live near a cliff and would prefer to not travel out far

 

[peacebenow]

no way of knowing if it will be successful due to many factors regarding the cliff ( i.e. ocean below, height, landing on an underlying ledge of rock etc. )

 

[hdead]

I'm just curious - why don't we read about jumping off a cliff more often? Seems like it would be an excellent option.

Have you sat on a ledge at height? I think, when high enough, you're pretty certainly dead. But man, it takes some serious courage to push yourself off. I couldn't do it.

The accounts I've read of (autopsies) reveal that the people that achieve this purposefully are high out of their minds, usually on alcohol and cocaine.

The people that jumped on 9/11 had a worse choice to make - I can't even begin to imagine what would have gone through their systems in their final moments.

 

[cookji]

Do autopsy reports actually show that? Is it really the case that people need to be drunk or under the influence of drugs to find the courage to do it?

Have you sat on a ledge at height? I think, when high enough, you're pretty certainly dead. But man, it takes some serious courage to push yourself off. I couldn't do it.

The accounts I've read of (autopsies) reveal that the people that achieve this purposefully are high out of their minds, usually on alcohol and cocaine.

The people that jumped on 9/11 had a worse choice to make - I can't even begin to imagine what would have gone through their systems in their final moments.

Do autopsy reports actually show that? Is it really the case that people need to be drunk or under the influence of drugs to find the courage to do it?

 

[JeyJeyOfJeypore]

Fear of heights and SI probably. Also many people might not live near a cliff and would prefer to not travel out far

Does si mean social insurance in this context?

I have a solution for the fear. Ill just capture a large group of lemmings and run off the cliff with them

Always easier with company

 

[SighCry]

Does si mean social insurance in this context?

I have a solution for the fear. Ill just capture a large group of lemmings and run off the cliff with them

Always easier with company

SI = Survival Instincts

 

[hdead]

Do autopsy reports actually show that? Is it really the case that people need to be drunk or under the influence of drugs to find the courage to do it?

Do autopsy reports actually show that? Is it really the case that people need to be drunk or under the influence of drugs to find the courage to do it?

The ones I have read; yes. I'd assume some people are desperate and determined enough that they'd jump sober, but honestly I think most would be under the influence of at least alcohol if not something else on top of that. I'm just saying; it takes a whole lot of courage and determination. I doubt anybody would be able to do it fearlessly - unless they're somebody without a amygdala. Also; there's plenty videos of people sitting on ledges threatening to jump just to be saved by firefighteres, police or the like.

 

[WaitingAllMyLife]

Have you sat on a ledge at height? I think, when high enough, you're pretty certainly dead. But man, it takes some serious courage to push yourself off. I couldn't do it.

The accounts I've read of (autopsies) reveal that the people that achieve this purposefully are high out of their minds, usually on alcohol and cocaine.

The people that jumped on 9/11 had a worse choice to make - I can't even begin to imagine what would have gone through their systems in their final moments.

I am not afraid of heights, am an avid skydiver and always wanted to BASE jump so I don't think that would be a problem. But beyond that, why would it be any harder than, say, jumping in front of a train or truck, or pulling the trigger on a gun?

 

[caco420]

Regarding the lemmings myth:

What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination | David Boles, Blogs

Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan whose author will not s…

bolesblogs.com

 

[outrider567]

Beachy Head in England has been used as a jumping off spot for centuries, but authorities finally got wise, and now there are guards there all the time

 

[current93]

there are some pretty high cliffs up the peninsula from where i live, with beautiful veiws which would make for a really nice spot to leave this earth. but i always worry about not landing right, surviving and being in agony, and becoming crippled.

 

[Past-Expiry-Date]

Beachy Head in England has been used as a jumping off spot for centuries, but authorities finally got wise, and now there are guards there all the time

Not in my experience. I was there twice at the end of May - not a single patrol in sight.