I have a question: people always say that you should jump with your head downwards because it will fracture your skull and that will kill you and if you don't die you'll at least get unconscious immediately because of the head trauma. But I can't bring myself to jump with my head downwards and it's the only method I have on hands rn to perform tomorrow (and I need to die tomorrow). Can you still die if you jump with your feet downwards or will the chances lessen greatly? And will you still get unconscious as soon as you hit the floor as you jump with your feet downwards? I don't want it to extremely hurt
Xerxes
Invisible
- Nov 8, 2018
- 936
The chance of survival jumping feet first is high. Also the pain is unbearable because your bones will shatter. Pieces of it will go into your body, get lodged in your bloodstream, or impale other organs and you're writhing in pain while we get to view your last moments on liveleak because everyone has their phones out. Head first ensures you are instantly knocked out unless you jumped from a 3 story building and broke your neck awkwardly.
How long will you be falling? A good long drop, and I doubt it matters much --a lot of people have gone off the Golden Gate Bridge feet first. A shorter, marginal drop, and it'll matter a lot.
TAW122
Emissary of the right to die.
- Aug 30, 2018
- 6,813
It is possible to die with your feet downwards, but it would require over 150 feet in height and maybe more if there was water. Also, like @Xerxes said, it will be extremely painful until the moment of death and that isn't something you'd want before you reach death.
I think you don't necessarily need to do a swan dive jump, but maneuver your body so it's parallel to the ground, facing down or facing up. Your head will still crack on the ground (hopefully pavement)
On one video, I saw someone turned around, hold their arms out to the side, and then simply lean backwards. That seemed peaceful. If they hit horizontally on their back their skull would probably fracture instantly.
Alot of people who jump from the GG bridge die from drowning or internal bleeding. I think landing feet first might increase those odds. They break all their bones and are too weak to stay afloat. Their bones most likely puncture vital organs as well.
I haven't seen a list of autopsy results, but you may well be right about that.
After I wrote that, I remembered that the one guy who survived the jump off the GG hit feet-first. Fractured his spine pretty severely, IIRC.
I remember reading somewhere that most if not all people who survived jumping from the GG bridge landed feet first and at a slight angle.
And what do you think would happen if you'd jump and lay on your side so to say? Thanks for all the replies guys! I'm not going to jump feet first, of that I'm sure
There's more than one?! I only knew of the one, who was in the documentary, The Bridge.
There are quite a lot of survivors actually, you should Google it. There are a lot of cliche quotes from it
I would imagine it to be quite difficult to purposely adjust your position mid-fall especially at very tall heights. The natural force and velocity would probably cause your body to rotate no matter what. Landing on your side could break a number of different parts so it's hard to say what would happen.
Yeah there's about 36 survivors since 1937 I believe. Although some sources say 25/26. The man you're referring to is Kevin Hines who jumped in 2000. He landed in a seated position and nearly broke his spine. Many people think it's a blissful death because of the water but they couldn't be further from the truth lol
worldexploder
Visionary
- Sep 19, 2018
- 2,821
Depends on how high you're jumping from. If you're jumping from an incredibly high place - like the New River Gorge Bridge which is 876 feet, it probably won't matter which part of your body you land on. As a rule always try to land on your head no matter what.
starcrossedfate
Passenger
- Sep 24, 2018
- 240
Yeah, never go feet first. Especially if it is 10-15 stories or less.
@Xerxes ,
A terrifying but good post. You may always end with your 'feet first' in some kind of panic or reflex. I once made a post about altitude, weight, body shape and speed but never got a real answer.
A terrifying but good post. You may always end with your 'feet first' in some kind of panic or reflex. I once made a post about altitude, weight, body shape and speed but never got a real answer.
This. No need to create unnecessary fear.
Here's more about it
https://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/suicide_life_ends_six_meters_above_ground-78133
Falls from a mere ten meters onto unyielding ground have already often deadly consequences, but 34 m/s, that are 76.2 mph or 122.4 km/h, are enough to immediately switch off and destroy one's brain regardless of the body's orientation at impact.
The guy is quite nice to read as he's pro-choice in many things and ruthlessly rational.
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@creationisdeath , I've seen other sources as well.
One quora source 'Definitely not, it turns out the gravitational acceleration is larger than it may seem. After 1 sec in free fall, an object reaches the speed of about 35 km/h (I am used to the metric system, but you can certainly convert it into mile/h). That is equivalent to falling from a height of 5 m. If it is 2 sec, then the velocity is 70 km/h, corresponding to falling from 20 m.'
I'm really not good at physics, much less so than when I was younger. See bold. 70 kmph is fast, but I can imagine someone surviving that.
I recall phrases like terminal velocity etc. Must be in one of my oldest threads. You don't want to end up as a paraplegic with additional brain damage. If you think of it, ten meters is maybe three floors or so.
One quora source 'Definitely not, it turns out the gravitational acceleration is larger than it may seem. After 1 sec in free fall, an object reaches the speed of about 35 km/h (I am used to the metric system, but you can certainly convert it into mile/h). That is equivalent to falling from a height of 5 m. If it is 2 sec, then the velocity is 70 km/h, corresponding to falling from 20 m.'
I'm really not good at physics, much less so than when I was younger. See bold. 70 kmph is fast, but I can imagine someone surviving that.
I recall phrases like terminal velocity etc. Must be in one of my oldest threads. You don't want to end up as a paraplegic with additional brain damage. If you think of it, ten meters is maybe three floors or so.
catwalk
Member
- Nov 12, 2018
- 75
You can put your knees to your chin so when you hit the ground they will hit your head
Thank you for all the replies guys, I hope this will help someone else too. Little update if someone is interested is that I had to move my plans to tomorrow because my discharge conversation from my ip unit is moved to tomorrow sadly. Take care everyone x
The guy is a physicist. You can look up terminal velocity everywhere - from military to recreational basejumpers etc.
If it's high enough that's it. 100% instantly dead.
I was afraid of those shitty urban myths too - turns out they all landed on some "soft" things like heavy bushes or they didn't really drop but instead had issues with the chute that made them land harder than intended.
Key is finding a spot with a hard surface to fall onto. That's trickier than I expected and many easily accessible places have suicide watch or nets or some other inhumane we-force-you-to-be-a-gov-slave methods in place.
