suicide via jumping?

[willitpass]

how high would you have to be to die, both onto dry land and onto water. i'm about 150lbs if that makes any difference

 

[Lostboi]

I believe if you're jumping to dry land and going headfirst that anything over 3 stories will likely so the trick. You have to go headfirst though. To water I think the Golden Gate is something like 225 feet at the mid span and I think I remember reading that something like 15% of people survive. Look up that Kevin dude who survived jumping the GG. Go headfirst and go to land. Dont make it harder than it has to be, you know?

 

[BPDbitch]

I believe if you're jumping to dry land and going headfirst that anything over 3 stories will likely so the trick.

3 stories will most likely leave you alive and with serious injury. Please do not jump from this height. Ten stories is the minimum recommended.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Some people survive jumping 200feet some die jumping 35feet.

 

[dibbydoo]

The problem I have with jumping is the 'everything slows down' bit.

What is that you may ask?

Well, it's a documented phenomena that occurs for some people when they are actually experiencing an acute sudden danger or accident, such as a car crash etc...

The effect seems to slow down time & changes your perspective drastically, you are totally aware of everything around you and what is happening, & about to happen & you can literally plan how to best react to it, the sensation feels like everything is in 'slow-motion.'

I can testify to this first hand, as it has happened to me twice while falling from my bike - as I left my bike everything slowed down, my mind suddenly became super aware and I was able to calculate how I was going to fall, and how I should best react to it at an incredible speed, I remember on both occasions to adjust myself while in mid-air on how not to land on my head, but my hands, it was very very surreal.

Jumping from a great height could turn into an awfully long drop for someone who experiences such a phenomena. I'm very highly sensitive & have also experienced the 'Alice in Wonderland syndrome' on many occasions, and perhaps this could be the same syndrome manifesting in a different way...

Alice in Wonderland syndrome - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[laserfocus111]

I tried to jump from the 10th floor but I was so worried about the pain. Then the police got me.

 

[Orpheus*]

how high would you have to be to die, both onto dry land and onto water. i'm about 150lbs if that makes any difference

Onto dry land I've heard 7 stories is the minimum. Jumping seems like such a scary way to go, though, I'm terrified of what I'd think on the way down.

 

[Stormy Misty]

Last summer, a man jumped from the 6th story parking garage in Lakeland, Fl, from the north corner. I was inside visting my husband in a coma. A man outside who saw it, and was losing it, told me that magnificent brave soul gave a big smile and did a back flip off the garage. That just is the most legendary thing I ever heard. I became obsessed with that top corner of the garage and spent a lot of time there. My husband wasn't expected to survive an extreme head-on 4wheeler collision, and I was in a desperate, out of my mind grief place, and I could feel that man's end of the line fearlessness up there. I could never find out his whole story, hospital wigged out about liability and shut down any info, but I'll never forget. My reverence for his utter balls to exit via a back flip from 6 stories into pavement got me through 4 long sad scary terrible months there. He must have been a real character in life.

 

[lifeisbutadream]

Last summer, a man jumped from the 6th story parking garage in Lakeland, Fl, from the north corner. I was inside visting my husband in a coma. A man outside who saw it, and was losing it, told me that magnificent brave soul gave a big smile and did a back flip off the garage. That just is the most legendary thing I ever heard. I became obsessed with that top corner of the garage and spent a lot of time there. My husband wasn't expected to survive an extreme head-on 4wheeler collision, and I was in a desperate, out of my mind grief place, and I could feel that man's end of the line fearlessness up there. I could never find out his whole story, hospital wigged out about liability and shut down any info, but I'll never forget. My reverence for his utter balls to exit via a back flip from 6 stories into pavement got me through 4 long sad scary terrible months there. He must have been a real character in life.

Reminds me of the long haired fellow in the great documentary film of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge, "The Bridge", who back flipped from the railing. He didn't give a big smile though. That was legendary!

 

[oneofthoseyoudontwan]

Taller is always besteir i think

 

[wanderinglost]

Onto dry land I've heard 7 stories is the minimum. Jumping seems like such a scary way to go, though, I'm terrified of what I'd think on the way down.

higher yes. I have jumped approx a dozen times from 3500ft and 3 times with a German shepherd strapped to me oh and one with the dog much much lower into water from a Chinook but ofc I was wearing a chute so none of those count.
Would I jump from a height without one?....... not a chance you need at least 10 floors or sit on the roofs edge and swig a bottle of JD with a 28 to 56 pack / bottle of valium 10mg or 5mg
you would soon drop off twice >.< no I have seen the mess it makes and i do not want scraping up and shoveling into a bag, its awesome with a chute but I do not even trust commercial airlines, if that was my only option though id 10 floors high at least, onto concrete and i would be knocked out asleep before i fell off

 

[raindrops]

I tried to jump from the 10th floor but I was so worried about the pain. Then the police got me.

Can I ask was this in the UK or US? What happened when they found you, I thought they would section you? In the UK I assume they would put you in the mental hospital. (sorry to call it "mental hospital")

 

[Ghassane]

how high would you have to be to die, both onto dry land and onto water. i'm about 150lbs if that makes any difference

All u should know is for a solid ground at least 100 meters and for water at least 150 meters and this should be lethal any way u jump u don't have to worry a lot u may also lose ur conscioussnous while jumping there is a thread here that u can search for (a 100 meters should be a tower).

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Can I ask was this in the UK or US? What happened when they found you, I thought they would section you? In the UK I assume they would put you in the mental hospital. (sorry to call it "mental hospital")

Nah if this person is Uk you can get held for a few hours but it's easy enough to get back home pretty fast

 

[laserfocus111]

Can I ask was this in the UK or US? What happened when they found you, I thought they would section you? In the UK I assume they would put you in the mental hospital. (sorry to call it "mental hospital")

Hi I live somewhere in East Asia.

They put me in a lockup for about half a day, took my statement and sent me to a mental institution for assessment. I was told that usually my guarantor could take me home after the assessment and being told not to do it again. I was told to see the investigation officer again after a month for follow up - nothing happened as first time offenders are typically given a stern warning.

Apparently the doctor on call felt my suicidal ideation was strong enough for them to ward me.

Looking back I felt it was really silly when I had access to more painless methods. Wasn't really thinking straight. One year later I've got my thoughts sorted out.. Once there's a strong enough trigger I'd set my plan in motion..

All u should know is for a solid ground at least 100 meters and for water at least 150 meters and this should be lethal any way u jump u don't have to worry a lot u may also lose ur conscioussnous while jumping there is a thread here that u can search for (a 100 meters should be a tower).

I don't understand why people are said to lose consciousness halfway during the jump. I mean.. Skydivers don't blank out at terminal velocity right? I'm no skydiver but that's just my assumption.