[aldo_14]

A while ago (2 days ago methinks) in the news - a guy jumps with a parachute from 5000m.
It turnes out both the main and the spare wouldn't open.
He falls, he SURVIVES!

Not the first time, too..... as an aside, the longest free-fall survival without a parachute was 33,000 feet on wreckage, or 20,000 or so without.  Crikey.

[Janos]

Play it safe and take the fith or sixth store, should be pretty certain.

[IceFire]

A while ago (2 days ago methinks) in the news - a guy jumps with a parachute from 5000m.
It turnes out both the main and the spare wouldn't open.
He falls, he SURVIVES!

Not the first time, too..... as an aside, the longest free-fall survival without a parachute was 33,000 feet on wreckage, or 20,000 or so without.  Crikey.

Oh my god...I cannot fathom surviving a fall from 33,000 feet. Thats incredible!  I mean 20,000 feet is unbelievable too...but....geeze.

[Bobboau]

well can you fathom surviving getting throughen from a car going 100 mph? cause that's a human's terminal velocity, it doesn't mater how far you fall you won't go faster than that (unless were talking orbital distances)

[KappaWing]

For better or for worse...

KappaWing? You don't have to say of course but I am kinda curious about what this is all about - especially if it's not what we think - which is you trying to find out how best to ensure a quick and painful suicide...

painful? your brain is splattered before it can feel anything, correct?

[Fineus]

Painless, sorry - not really with it.

Well, I'm assuming it's painless. Haven't experienced it for myself but you'd hope it'd be over quickly.

Of more concern to me though, is why this is even being discussed at all?

[fsi.scsi]

If you managed to land on your head, I'm sure you would experience a split-second of intense pain before you.. well.. didn't experience anything anymore, ever.

Here's some advice: Don't jump off a building.  If you hate yourself that much, the least you could do is effect a cleaner method, so some poor bastard wouldn't have to mop up your brains and guts off the road. 

I'm hoping that this is some sort of twisted physics assignment.  But if it isn't, it would be much more painless to get ~30 hits of (XTC, THC, PCP etc) and go with glee.

[KappaWing]

To the people who made comments about sleeping pills:

They think if they take an overdose of sleeping pills they'll just go to sleep and never wake up. Instead they wake up choking on their own vomit, and there's the emergency room and stomach pumping and brain damage, and it's the opposite of relief for their suffering. People try all sorts of things that don't work, all horrible.

No thanks for the advice.

the death must be instantaneous. any pills or drugs of some sort, i'm not interested in anyway.

If you managed to land on your head, I'm sure you would experience a split-second of intense pain before you.. well.. didn't experience anything anymore, ever.

Would you really? It takes about a split second for the nervous system to recieve, transmit, and process the signal. I think one's brain would be a bit to fragmented to think (instantaneous splatter) before the pain is processed. Can anyone confirm me on this?

[Tyrian]

I think that before this goes any farther, you need to tell us what this is about.  You now have a lot of people (myself included) very worried about what you are planning to do with this information.  If this is what it appears to be, then you need to talk to someone.  What you are asking about now is not the answer. 

[Unknown Target]

I agree. Kappa, what's up man?

[jr2]

Would you really? It takes about a split second for the nervous system to recieve, transmit, and process the signal. I think one's brain would be a bit to fragmented to think (instantaneous splatter) before the pain is processed. Can anyone confirm me on this?

Um, the brain can survive a while without oxygen, so if it wasn't done in immediately by the trauma, and/or the fall was interrupted by something (ie, you brushed against the building instead of falling straight down), it could get very painful laying there..

..You now have a lot of people (myself included) very worried about what you are planning to do with this information.  If this is what it appears to be, then you need to talk to someone.  What you are asking about now is not the answer. 

Seconded..

[Scuddie]

The question is a trick in and of itself.  Jumping from ANY height will not ensure an instant death.  The higher you are, the longer you fall, filled with the natural fear of falling and eventual death.  So in essence, that wont work either...

But either way, WTF??

[Nuclear1]

I think that before this goes any farther, you need to tell us what this is about.  You now have a lot of people (myself included) very worried about what you are planning to do with this information.

I agree...Kappa, whatever you're thinking about, just let it out. 

[Tamlin]

Please do!Explain!!


By the away no death is instant.it's going to die then death. and the only way to really find out is to ask a dead person.
 I was an autopsy assistant for 5 years at Bay State medical center before opening my Bistro.

[Scuddie]

Autopsy assistant who opened a Bistro??

I don't want to know what is in that spaghetti.

[fsi.scsi]

KappaWing:

A lot of people on this forum, myself included, are concerned that you are planning to literally use the 'information' in this thread.  Please address our concerns!

If you are seriously contemplating suicide, then I'd suggest stepping back and really looking hard at your situation.  No matter which option you pick, all forms of suicide involve some degree of pain.  Pain not just to yourself, and not just physical.  I'm sure you've got family and friends - not to mention the people on this board - who would be devastated if you go down that route.  When you prepare yourself mentally to end your own life, you end up dehumanizing yourself.  You end up acknowledging your lack of self worth, which is inherently contradictory: You care enough to ask for a painless death, so you can go with dignity.  

Don't worry.  You're a pretty intelligent and respectable guy.  You're not too far gone or crazy.  The best thing for you to do, in my opinion, is find someone you can really talk to - and get some stuff off your chest.  You don't even have to do it on this board, if that bothers you.

And if you are religious - please consider meditating on what your actions really mean, not just for you but everyone around you.

Good luck.

[Snail]

I completely agree with fsi.scsi, but I don't think that you're really suicidal, you seem rational enough not to try that.

[Sandwich]

My bet is that he's writing a book or story.

[fsi.scsi]

My bet is that he's writing a book or story.

Hopefully so.  That would put the title of this thread into a little more perspective.

 

[Scuddie]

or...  MURDER!

...cue dangerous music...