Why Jump? What's the attraction?

[steppingoff]

For the most part of the time I have thought about CTB< i have always considered my method as hanging either partial or full.

But as I read various things about jumping, it's starting to attract my attention.

If you are thinking about jumping, why have you chosen that method?

 

[sserafim]

For it to be a show. Suicide is performance art

 

[thewalkingdread]

It's not my method but I can see why it is very popular...

Although It takes a lot of willpower to overcome SI and jump, it is an easy, accessible method with a fair chance of success. It's also relatively quick... and I guess one won't really get to feel a lot of pain.

 

[steppingoff]

For it to be a show. Suicide is performance art

Hmm Intersting. Maybe I am attracted to it the same way I am attracted to streaming my end

Is that your attraction?

 

[Oliver]

For the most part of the time I have thought about CTB< i have always considered my method as hanging either partial or full.

But as I read various things about jumping, it's starting to attract my attention.

If you are thinking about jumping, why have you chosen that method?

Because along with shooting yourself, it's the most effective method (if done from sufficient height).

 

[steppingoff]

It's not my method but I can see why it is very popular...

Although It takes a lot of willpower to overcome SI and jump, it is an easy, accessible method with a fair chance of success.

I agree it's best to have something only takes one motion to complete. Like kicking off or stepping off a stool

And that it is almost always fatal

 

[UKscotty]

Quick, guaranteed and painless... if done right.

Problem is you obviously can't do it at home and it leaves a terrible mess.

 

[ctbcat]

somehow, even as you break so many bones, you still have the capability to be beautiful in death, with jumping... i always think about cases like evelyn mchale. i mean... models even go by jumping... it's shallow, i suppose (criticising myself only here) but it's so easy to make jumping feel almost romantic in nature.

there's a lot of things like... jumping means you get to fly, in a way, and that so many jumping spots - concrete jungle, bridge, or real 'jungle' are beautiful, one way or another...

it's a very symbolic death. those are some of the reasons i like it.

 

[thewalkingdread]

Problem is you obviously can't do it at home and it leaves a terrible mess.

It can even seriously harm and kill other people who are just passing by... A big no, no.

 

[mtoro998]

Its one of the only methods thats free and its instant and garunteed to work. Personally I couldnt go out this way.

 

[TransientEternal]

Availability, fast and painless. There's the drawback of high survival instinct, but if you succeed at a high enough height you're practically guaranteed death.

 

[steppingoff]

Availability, fast and painless. There's the drawback of high survival instinct, but if you succeed at a high enough height you're practically guaranteed death.

From what I looked at, from safey standards related to falls 50% survive from 40 feet or so - and 100% never survive when its 85 feet or higher - so about 8 stories

 

[Chelsea Leng]

Availability, fast and painless. There's the drawback of high survival instinct, but if you succeed at a high enough height you're practically guaranteed death.

Availability is limited. I don't know where I can jump even though I live in New York City. Suicide prevention is everywhere but places to jump is hard to get by

 

[SVEN]

For me, death. Other options are limited.

 

[Chronosphere]

I tried to jump from 25th floor building when I was 15 but I couldn't move my legs for the last step. It felt like they were made from stone.
Funny thing is, when I didn't have intention to jump I could easily sit on the edge. SI is weird. I wonder if I could trick it somehow.
I did fall several floors though, accidently, and there was no pain at all. So if I'd choose it - it would be because it is pretty much painless and fast. But it triggers SI way too much.

 

[hadenough58]

I think I am too much of a coward to take that final step off a building or bridge, I just want to take something to go to sleep and never wake up.
I don't need to make a show of it or for others to even know I just want it to be over quick and painlessly but we are all different even if we share the same final aim.

 

[YoungJijii]

It's one of the easier methods and it doesn't require so much work.

 

[steppingoff]

I tried to jump from 25th floor building when I was 15 but I couldn't move my legs for the last step. It felt like they were made from stone.
Funny thing is, when I didn't have intention to jump I could easily sit on the edge. SI is weird. I wonder if I could trick it somehow.
I did fall several floors though, accidently, and there was no pain at all. So if I'd choose it - it would be because it is pretty much painless and fast. But it triggers SI way too much.

Has the method stayed with you? How does it resonate with you? I tried to ctb when I was a teenager through hanging, but lately jumping seems to be calling me.

 

[Chronosphere]

Has the method stayed with you? How does it resonate with you? I tried to ctb when I was a teenager through hanging, but lately jumping seems to be calling me.

Actually I want to hang, lol. I just understood jumping is not method for me and never tried it again. I do realize that it's not painful, but the last step is impossible to make. Maybe something changed, would be cool to stand again on the top of some unfinished tall building alone at night.

 

[astonishedturnip]

The attraction? It's free, many places in the world you can do it, and some people (like me) love heights. Plus far enough up, it's practically a guarantee. And I'm too dumb/nervous to order stuff that will kill me from the black market and hanging/cutting has always given me the willies.

Obvious downsides are potential for survival if you can't access a spot that's high enough, a corpse that will traumatize passersby/first responders/loved ones, and the possibility of hurting someone on the ground (depending on where you choose). And of course, the countless stories of survivors who said they regretted it on the way down.

However this combined with GSW has been my preferred CTB plan. I'm also afraid of GSW failing so I would probably try to choreograph to where the GSW would send my body off the cliff/ledge/balcony/whatever and the fall would seal the deal. Unfortunately takes a LOT to get over the SI but it does bring the survival rate down to 0% unless you are made of iron.