Method High enough?

[cu1len]

I live near a state park with a relatively tall tower. It's currently closed off for cars due to vandalism but completely accessible to hikers. Would this be tall enough to ctb? Each story is about 17 feet. I'd like your insight.

 

[Politecat]

View attachment 5139 I live near a state park with a relatively tall tower. It's currently closed off for cars due to vandalism but completely accessible to hikers. Would this be tall enough to ctb? Each story is about 17 feet. I'd like your insight.

Death by falling is a tricky one, it depends, the height, your weight, how fast, how you land, too many variables thus it's possible to survive and be in a huge amount of pain, which is why it's one of the least promising deaths.

 

[cu1len]

Well I'm a woman of science, I work with variables all the time.

 

[Sinbad]

Not enough..
You might die if you land on your head. The chance of ending up a vegatable is high from that height.

 

[Purgatory]

Recomended to jump 150 feet to a hard surface, 250 feet to water for (pretty much) a guaranteed instant death. As @Politecat pointed out, there are many variables. I suggest reading "Jumping from a height" at lostallhope and an article titled "Death occurs 6 meters obove the ground" source unremembered. I will be back soon with links.
BTW. Just based on the pic you posted, thinking a soft (or at least not concrete or rock) surface beneath. Height really uncalculable. I would not consider this, based on what I see and infer from the pic.
Be back soon with links to articles to read.

 

[Purgatory]

Links to articles everyone thinking of jumping should read.

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/jumping-high-building

Even though the title states "building" it covers jumping in general.

I am still searching the article about being dead before you hit the ground. Read it on 8chan site. The basics of it are that you fall faster than your eyes can transmit info to brain and your brain process it. So at (6 meters or 6 feet)? As you see it, you have already impacted and died. You never see impact (presuming sufficient height and instant death)

Would appreciate any help finding this article. I know at least some of you have contributed to, asked questions, or lurked the 8chan catalog.

 

[IfHeDiesHeDies]

This may be the article you are looking for.

https://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/suicide_life_ends_six_meters_above_ground-78133

 

[C2theN]

Don't even consider it. If each level is 17 feet, that's 51 feet total, no more than five stories in a building with standard floor-to-floor measurements. Google is full of stories about people who jump from that height, and they typically end up with shattered bones, punctured organs, paralysis, etc, but they rarely die. Among other things, it's impossible to aim your head at the ground when you won't be in the air for more than a second.

 

[Purgatory]

This may be the article you are looking for.

https://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/suicide_life_ends_six_meters_above_ground-78133

Yes! This is the one! Thank you!

 

[Purgatory]

Yes! This is the one! Thank you!

Mods and admin, can we add the articles listed here as a sticky for jumps?

 

[furax53]

the height is too indecisive to have certain death

 

[Ch92921]

Is it high enough? Unclear.

 

[Ch92921]

Probability= bone fracture, paralysis>death

 

[furax53]

you're likely to stay alive with fractures and the worst be a vegetable at the brain level

 

[Jiva]

I think, a jump can´t be sure. At WW2 one gunner from a bomber survived the fall from 10 km (32 000 ft.).

 

[CJM]

You're at a risk of becoming a vegetable with that.

 

[Arak]

@freaKtodie ,

Check Geo Stone's book. I did post an excerpt of a relevant page (pic) in one of my threads.You can look for that if you like. His comments are really good.

You usually want an altitude of at least 150 metres (500 metres is better), a hard surface not a soft one, and above all: don't land on your feet !

 

[cu1len]

Thank you all for your insight, and it has also come to my attention that the tower was torn down because of safety standards so yeah thank you though!