NSFW Thinking of jumping?

[Eren]

Can you travel to a larger city? Bus, train, car, plane, whatever? Hitchhiking?

No, I live with my family, it's not that simple

 

[gingerplum]

No! Just another thing I'm no good at..

Stop it, you. It's always a curiosity to me when adults can't swim, because here in Florida (where every other house has a pool) we start to "drown proof" kids when they're 2.

 

[Johnnythefox]

Stop it, you. It's always a curiosity to me when adults can't swim, because here in Florida (where every other house has a pool) we start to "drown proof" kids when they're 2.

I just never got the knack of swimming, I'd go with my brothers to the pool when I was a kid but it just never registered in my brain.

 

[TiredHorse]

Where I grew up, coastal Maine, it's pretty common for adults to not know how to swim: the water is too cold for anyone to want to spend any time in it. I've lived my lifetime sailing, had summer jobs working on boats growing up, etc., and I can't swim any better than a rudimentary, flailing dogpaddle I've learned more by accident than by intention (I also have about 2% bodyfat, so I have negative buoyancy). The general attitude there is (or was) that it's better to let the hypothermia win and drown fast.

Thinking about that, it's tempting to go back there, wait for bad weather, and go for a sail in a leaky boat...

 

[longingforrelease]

oui il est mort que ah l'hôpital est une connaissance ah moi travaillant comme pompier paris qui l'a envoyé à l'hôpital il m'a dit que c'était horrible de voir le gars

Dommage pour ton collègue. C'est sûr que ça serait une expérience vraiment traumatique. Toutes mes sympathies pour ton copain.

 

[[NoName]]

As a once great actor said..."Aim for the bushes"



But seriously, yes, be sure to scope out the landing area before you jump. There was a video of a dude who impaled himself on an iron gate, with the pointy end going through his chin and out his mouth from a 4 story drop. He lived and suffered needlessly for years. Getting a pole impaled up your ass is not a great way to go.

Other hazards:
1. People: Nothing like ruining another person's day by landing on them
2. Ledges: Hong Kong suicides are notorious for people hitting a ledge on the way down, leg first or hip first, before smacking the ground
3. Pointy fences: See above paragraph
4. Street lamps: Yes it is possible to impale yourself on a street lamp

Boy, 12, jumped off a bridge to die, police said; instead, he killed someone else

 

[TiredHorse]

Boy, 12, jumped off a bridge to die, police said; instead, he killed someone else

This makes me furious on so many levels.

When we exercise our own choice to take our own lives, it is our most basic ethical responsibility as human beings not to, by our actions, rob others of their own choice to live.

 

[gingerplum]

This makes me furious on so many levels.

When we exercise our own choice to take our own lives, it is our most basic ethical responsibility as human beings not to, by our actions, rob others of their own choice to live.

Wow. My heart breaks for that girl's parents. They will grieve for the rest of their lives because of one stupid kids reckless impulse.

 

[stargazer]

There's a follow-up video of him having the pole removed before he died in hospital. For some reason the medic looked quite cheerful. Poor guy.

That's awful...it really, really is. What kind of medic could be that sick/sadisitic...sad face.

 

[stargazer]

I will also now rule out jumping. And I agree with the other user, I don't want to make mine a public thing or a doing it in public thing.

 

[gingerplum]

I don't think I ever could've jumped, stargazer, but even if I could, this would've ruled it out for me.

 

[Shewaitsforme]

Exactly thats why i ruled out jumping and trains, its not just about the driver, if they spot you from afar they will pull the emergency brake possibly injuring passengers

 

[OkTotti]

If i were to jump,it would be very late at night or early morning. I'm just so afraid of heights, i don't think i can overcome this fear and survival instinct .... ugh...why is CTB so hard?

 

[Lunaemoth]

That's awful...it really, really is. What kind of medic could be that sick/sadisitic...sad face.

It kind of makes me wonder though if it was like a shock thing. Doctors, police, medics, etc... The kind of mindset they need to have to cope with the things they see and deal with every day... kind of a laugh in the face of death thing. Doesn't mean they don't feel pain and horror and sadness, they just have to repress it to cope. Not saying that's what's happening, it's just a thought. Still kind of tactless either way, but....

 

[TiredHorse]

It kind of makes me wonder though if it was like a shock thing. Doctors, police, medics, etc... The kind of mindset they need to have to cope with the things they see and deal with every day... kind of a laugh in the face of death thing. Doesn't mean they don't feel pain and horror and sadness, they just have to repress it to cope. Not saying that's what's happening, it's just a thought. Still kind of tactless either way, but....

As a FF/EMT, I know we definitely had some moments of sick humor that we used to get us through some particularly bad incident. Either your mind blows a fuse, or your mind itself goes. We occasionally found ourselves laughing at really sick shit, even though we all knew there was nothing at all funny --and looking around at each other, we all knew the others knew that, too. Later you get the shakes (me), or you puke, or you get stupid drunk, but in the moment, you have a job to do, so you crack a sick joke, laugh a little too hard, and hope like hell the relatives aren't listening and you don't get written up for it.

 

[Shewaitsforme]

It kind of makes me wonder though if it was like a shock thing. Doctors, police, medics, etc... The kind of mindset they need to have to cope with the things they see and deal with every day... kind of a laugh in the face of death thing. Doesn't mean they don't feel pain and horror and sadness, they just have to repress it to cope. Not saying that's what's happening, it's just a thought. Still kind of tactless either way, but....

Ill always remember my first patient, frail, really old. Rice pudding had gone into her lungs (aspirated) she was lying there trying to rip her own chest open as her oxygen sats were 42%, seeing a colleague trying to get an eyegel down to keep her airway patent, she started bleeding from the mouth, too small and frail for the eyegel to go down. Literally im stood there frozen,watching them work (id just started so not able to help yet) Week later i went to a man who had been dead on the bathroom floor for 2 hours already, wife was beside him all that time, and we rock up still having to take all equipment in including a large heavy defib. Now its just part of the job, i take people home, hospices to die, they know why they are going, i know but i do my best for them, for the short time they are in the back with me. I remember it all but cant let it effect me because the next patient deserves me at my best too, they trust me help them as much as i can and thats all i need to keep going, even drug abuse patients (we have alot) needles snapped off in various places im not there to judge them, not because iys my job but because i wouldnt want anyone to judge me