What would it actually feel like to jump though.

[lynn14]

I am terrified of heights, but for some reason this method has renewed my interest. I would have to be in some kind of altered state, first of all. At least drunk enough to still be able to manage to climb to the top of something. Whenever I'm in town there isn't much that is very high, but there has been a very tall crane in the city for several weeks and every time I see it I obsess over the thought of climbing up just to see how high it is and to imagine what it would be like to jump. But it is behind a construction area so I wouldn't climb it unless I planned on actually jumping. I could never land in any other position besides on my feet (unless the wind or something forced by body into some different position) so I would be sure that it was a sufficient height for that reason. I've seen post-mortem pictures of feet landers and it isn't pretty, but I wouldn't want to think about the impact, that would take care of itself, it's just the jumping that is such an overwhelming thought lately. It does seem unnecessarily painful and scary though. You'd almost have to be some kind of adrenaline junkie to do it that way! To be honest! I don't know what I like about this method besides the ease of access to a high point, climbing and jumping are technically "easy" to do physically, but I don't think the survival instinct would be easy to overcome by any means. You might have to be a little bit crazy as well as suicidal to do it this way. Unless you took alcohol as described, or any other drug suggestions? Any thoughts on the subject you may have are welcome, thanks.

 

[Dead Mans Shoes]

Yeah. I'd jump but I'm scared of the regret in the way down.

 

[Walilamdzi]

Can't say that I fancy it...

 

[lynn14]

Yeah. I'd jump but I'm scared of the regret in the way down.

Yes, the possibility of feeling regret is real. That is what I've heard survivors report. It would be like the same feeling as being a passenger on a plane that is about to crash, except that you did it on purpose. Worst 45 seconds of your life for realsies. You'd almost want to just focus on nothing and oblivion, and of course the SPLAT. It would be a very chaotic time and would be experienced completely differently than what someone on the ground watching can imagine.

 

[Dead Mans Shoes]

Yes, the possibility of feeling regret is real. That is what I've heard survivors report. It would be like the same feeling as being a passenger on a plane that is about to crash, except that you did it on purpose. Worst 45 seconds of your life for realsies. You'd almost want to just focus on nothing and oblivion, and of course the SPLAT. It would be a very chaotic time and would be experienced completely differently than what someone on the ground watching can imagine.

Terrifying. Not how if like to go. Personally.

 

[lynn14]

Can't say that I fancy it...

105 storeys is overkill, lol! Can you even imagine the splat. You'd break the pavement and be instantly vaporized. You can hear how fast that guy is breathing and he's not even suicidal.

 

[Tally]

Terrifying. However I was only thinking the other day how circumstance changes things. I would easily jump if someone said to me "if you don't jump then this member of your family dies". So why does it become harder to jump when it is to release my personal pain

 

[Dead Mans Shoes]

Terrifying. However I was only thinking the other day how circumstance changes things. I would easily jump if someone said to me "if you don't jump then this member of your family dies". So why does it become harder to jump when it is to release my personal pain

Terrifying. However I was only thinking the other day how circumstance changes things. I would easily jump if someone said to me "if you don't jump then this member of your family dies". So why does it become harder to jump when it is to release my personal pain

Because like many here. You care about others. More than yourself. And it's hard to just start looking after number one.

 

[lynn14]

I think I'll think twice about this method. It does seem unjustifiably awful. But isn't suicide just unjustifiably awful. A moment of access, impulse and liquid courage is all it might take. I'm also just morbidly fascinated so, there's also that.

 

[marcusuk63]

https://sites.psu.edu/hannahirossblog/2016/03/17/the-most-beautiful-suicide/

 

[Dead Mans Shoes]

I think I'll think twice about this method. It does seem unjustifiably awful. But isn't suicide just unjustifiably awful. A moment of access, impulse and liquid courage is all it might take. I'm also just morbidly fascinated so, there's also that.

Thought about it. I just hope I got the right email for A

 

[lynn14]

https://sites.psu.edu/hannahirossblog/2016/03/17/the-most-beautiful-suicide/

Imagine landing and looking like that. She was too pretty to be omitting suicide to begin with. This is more along the lines of what I had in mind as being a more likely, but less beautiful, scenario:

https://www.bestgore.com/suicide/british-citizen-commit-suicide-pattaya-thailand/

 

[marcusuk63]

I imagine those 45 seconds would seem at least 3 times longer , when i fell off a ladder and shattered my foot i had time to turn around assess the situation and see i was going to hit a metal bar so moved my body round to avoid it and that was less than two stories high !

 

[Dead Mans Shoes]

Wonder what he did on the days leading up to it.

 

[marcusuk63]

Imagine landing and looking like that. She was too pretty to be omitting suicide to begin with. This is more along the lines of what I had in mind as being a more likely, but less beautiful, scenario:

https://www.bestgore.com/suicide/british-citizen-commit-suicide-pattaya-thailand/

Yes that is more likely and he is relatively complete seen a few on there where they have just exploded .yuk

Wonder what he did on the days leading up to it.

Probably checked his bank account and realised it was empty and that is why his lady boy had left him

 

[Soul]

Who was that poet who jumped off a bridge and waved at onlookers on the way down? I love him.

Update: It was John Berryman. Love & light to him

 

[Letmego. Please]

I'm a wheelchair user after a bonkers jump attempt 26yrs ago, but even still i cannot look at a tall building without wanting to jump off the bloody thing, it gets really annoying when the chair means i can no longer climb on the roof.

Shit happens as they say..

 

[spanishguy22]

Well this is something I won't ever try after reading this

Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface

We report the case of a 28-year old rock climber who survived an "unsurvivable" injury consisting of a vertical free fall from 300 feet onto a solid rock surface. The trauma mechanism and injury kinetics are analyzed, with a particular focus on the relevance ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[JadedGray]

Can't say that I fancy it...

Just watching that made me nervous. I envy people who aren't afraid of heights. That's the only reason I haven't CTB yet, since this method is the quickest and easiest method once you can get past the fear of jumping.

 

[SHThrowAway213]

I think it would be peaceful but terrifying at the same time.
I always wonder what it would feel like

 

[Walilamdzi]

Just watching that made me nervous. I envy people who aren't afraid of heights. That's the only reason I haven't CTB yet, since this method is the quickest and easiest method once you can get past the fear of jumping.

I think there's too much margin for error because you could potentially survive on impact and be in a lot of pain. I wish that people didn't have to resort to methods that have so many risks. Compared to methods used in Dignitas etc, this is really bad. N should be available.

 

[Mbound]

I've been on like, amusement park "rides" that have approximated the feeling of being in free fall (and from a tall height) and it was one of the worst things ever. Absolutely horrifying, nothing remotely pleasant about it. It doesn't feel like flying at all, it feels so viscerally unsettling I could never do it myself unless in a really desperate situation, probably while highly intoxicated.

 

[SomebodyBroken]

Can't say that I fancy it...

Well, without gloves at that height, grab the iron .... too hard to see that.
what a pity that the 9-12 floor is too small for ctb for me

 

[Divine Trinity]

I've had experience with large heights, well over 500 feet high. I wasn't suicidal at the time, so when thinking about the possibility of falling (with a 99.9% chance of death, we're talking a straight 800-1.4k ft drop, the woman had 2 impacts below 200ft) I'd say the only thoughts I'd be capable of is a combination of the words "shit and "fuck" repeatedly, likely slurred, as I urinate on myself.

Great view, but no thanks.

 

[Ruffian]

My cousin jumped years ago. He watched his two older siblings degenerate from Huntingdon's disease while his mother took care of both of them. his father had it too. That was my uncle and he was such a force of nature. He was shot in the chest 3 times and survived. Big and strong, and even though my family barely speaks to one another any more, I remember how kind he was. It's a truly awful disease to watch someone go from that to being in a wheelchair with no muscle control and just a shell of their formal selves. Anyway, my cousin tested positive for the gene and I guess didn't want to burden his family or go through all of that. No one really knows his last moments, but there are so many bridges around our area. He jumped, like the day after he got the news. I think that's the only way a person would do it, without even thinking about it. I'm having a hard time even going through with a relatively peaceful method. Sometimes I think thinking about it for awhile makes it harder. Just my opinion, because he was never depressed or anything like that. I miss all of them, but in some way I'm glad for him. Knowing that's what your future holds probably just runs over the SI.

 

[Letmego. Please]

My cousin jumped years ago. He watched his two older siblings degenerate from Huntingdon's disease while his mother took care of both of them. his father had it too. That was my uncle and he was such a force of nature. He was shot in the chest 3 times and survived. Big and strong, and even though my family barely speaks to one another any more, I remember how kind he was. It's a truly awful disease to watch someone go from that to being in a wheelchair with no muscle control and just a shell of their formal selves. Anyway, my cousin tested positive for the gene and I guess didn't want to burden his family or go through all of that. No one really knows his last moments, but there are so many bridges around our area. He jumped, like the day after he got the news. I think that's the only way a person would do it, without even thinking about it. I'm having a hard time even going through with a relatively peaceful method. Sometimes I think thinking about it for awhile makes it harder. Just my opinion, because he was never depressed or anything like that. I miss all of them, but in some way I'm glad for him. Knowing that's what your future holds probably just runs over the SI.

Sorry to hear about your family.

The time that i jumped i know for sure that i didn't think about it before the day it happened, and then i was just on auto pilot doing it. Its a weird thing but yeah you are right

 

[JadedGray]

I think there's too much margin for error because you could potentially survive on impact and be in a lot of pain. I wish that people didn't have to resort to methods that have so many risks. Compared to methods used in Dignitas etc, this is really bad. N should be available.

Yes, I agree. I wouldn't want to end up paralyzed in a wheelchair for the rest of my life (or with severe brain damage) even if I did jump high enough.

 

[thisplaceisaprison]

Well this is something I won't ever try after reading this

Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface

We report the case of a 28-year old rock climber who survived an "unsurvivable" injury consisting of a vertical free fall from 300 feet onto a solid rock surface. The trauma mechanism and injury kinetics are analyzed, with a particular focus on the relevance ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Yeah, jumping really doesn't seem like one of the methods that I would go with either. Apparently the highest fall survival according to google was over 30,000ft. Granted, that's like a one in a billion chance there's a lot of other survival stories and it's likely to physically fuck someone up if they survive and make it much harder to ctb.

 

[Nutcase]

I've been on like, amusement park "rides" that have approximated the feeling of being in free fall (and from a tall height) and it was one of the worst things ever. Absolutely horrifying, nothing remotely pleasant about it. It doesn't feel like flying at all, it feels so viscerally unsettling I could never do it myself unless in a really desperate situation, probably while highly intoxicated.

Was just going to say the same thing, I went to an amusement park maybe a year and a half ago, went on a rollercoaster and it's probably up there as one of the worst experiences in my life, I'd rather just die naturally if this was my only option.

 

[Mbound]

Was just going to say the same thing, I went to an amusement park maybe a year and a half ago, went on a rollercoaster and it's probably up there as one of the worst experiences in my life, I'd rather just die naturally if this was my only option.

Yeah it really feels just like, viscerally wrong right? The thing I went on was actually basically like being in free fall (just attached to a rope) and you couldn't pay me any amount of money to seek that feeling out again.

Also it seems like jumping has a very high rate of people regretting it on the way down, according to survivors. Drifting off to sleep is the only way I'm going out.