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jumping off a large bridge would do me in, right? i mean, it's water underneath, but it's got to be a good 30ft. that's sufficient, eh?

― sgsdg, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

oh, so question: how high does a bridge have to be to do you in? remeber, water is underneath.

― sgsdg, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

It's the fall that kills you, not the water. Jump wrong and you don't break your neck, you just look foolish.

You'd be better of fucking about with a gas oven.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Its not the fall that kills you, it's the landing.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, it depends how you land I guess. If you land on the crown of your head you can really deck yourself.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the problem with modern medicine is that it used to be that breaking your back was a death sentance. Not any more! Can you imagine something worse than being alive and depressed? Being alive and depressed and IN A WHEELCHAIR AND NOT ABLE TO MOVE!!!

You have to aim to smash your head in, not just break your neck and/or back.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't have thought 30ft would be enough, no matter how you land. It's definitely not worth the risk.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you're totally playing Russian Roulette with jumping.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly, it's not the fall that would kill you if jumping from the Clifton suspension bridge, it's suffocating in the mud at the bottom. And I once heard that jumping into the Thames from a bridge in London is like "jumping into a washing machine." This means neither of these are an appealing option.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

30 feet won't do shit. That's a high dive at the YMCA.

Consider The urge to suddenly drop everything, quit your job, sell your possessions, and take off into the great unknown - c/d?

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

If you jumped from a 180-foot high bridge, you'd be going about 60 mph by the time you impacted the surface of the water. If you landed on your feet, you'd undoubtedly break them but would likely still live if you were able to return to the surface.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

We were in St Ives, the other day. A bloke was on the rocks threatening to jump. They cleared the beach and everything, which was dangerous as we'd got Amber an ice cream, whereas Alice was with her Gramps up the top and hadn't got one, so Amber had to finish hers quickly otherwise deep frowning would have occurred. Oh yes, I guess the bloke didn't jump. Or don't the news cover that anymore?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

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Y M C A

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

yes, you'd more likely drown by falling badly and crippling yourself and sink than actually dying from the impact.

why not, jump, off a cliff, onto rocks?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

gas ovens run the risk of killing other people
best way is to walk as far as you can into the desert, naked, then lie down and wait.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

get in a gas oven and get someone to push that over a bridge.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

or actually play russian roulette

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

or does that count as murder?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

fast trains, *really* fast trains.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

But that will ruin someone else's day.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

put yourself in a box, with a very small bit of radioactive substance that may decay within an hour, or it may not. if it happens it would register on a geiger counter in the box which would trigger a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

The main problem with that approach is that you'll get some nasty scratches from the cat that's been trapped in there with you.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

great idea, ken.
http://www.laventure.net/tourist/rube350a.gif

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I jumped off a jetty in Austria (purpose built) into a lake. It had 3 levels, the top being 40 foot; it took my brother-in-law and me a good 15 mins to jump off, all this time kids where whizzing past and doing somersaults galore. When I finally jumped, I remember thinking “shit this is taking a while” while falling through the air. it didn’t hurt that much, just a bit of a slap on the feet.

I recon when you get to 60 foot that’s when it’d get interesting.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

when do you reach terminal velocity? after that it kind of doesn't really matter (as long as you're not so far up you get blown by the wind and miss the landing)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

By miss the landing, do you mean get blown back upward, so you never land?

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Even a slow train will do the trick, I think.

― you better believe it (you better believe it), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/Images/termv.gif

― NASA (you better believe it), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

By miss the landing, do you mean get blown back upward, so you never land?
-- geyser muffler and a quarter (right.knewi...), June 8th, 2005 2:33 PM. (Dave225) (later)

haha blown into orbit yes!

what i really meant was like say for jumping into a lake, you can be so high up than you end up being blown off-course and hitting the ground next to the lake instead, or something.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.curiosum.org/bilder/bunny-suicide/2_02.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

oh no, you'd be killed

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

i was wondering whether you can survive diving into water at terminal velocity though - if you land perfect somehow.. that way you can totally jump off planes and stuff into the ocean and survive!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

or if someone creates a lake that is layered with liquids with increasing amount of density (starting with the top layer that is not much denser than air.. and then to proper water at the bottom so your "fall" is so slow that you can dive from 10000km and still survive - it'd be one hell of a ride!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, I just read an article somewhere, maybe on the Straight Dope, about people who tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge but survived. Basically, if you land perfectly, so that your body is straight and you kind of slice into the water, you can survive jumping into water from a very great height.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Except remember to plug your nose when you go in ... because the enema you get is going to spray out your nose if you don't. and that would burn.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

are we talking surface tension?

xpost

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Even a slow train will do the trick, I think.

it depends how you do it.

People who jump in front of London Underground trains at stations - especially from platforms with suicide pits - will often die relatively slowly and painfully, from massive injuries to their spine caused by the negative pickup shoe hitting them. If they are electrocuted, then the voltage on the negative rail and shoe is, again, high enough to cause severe damage and pain given suitable contact, but low enough to take its time about it.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I read a mystery story about a guy who killed himself by suspending a huge sword from the top of his stairwell with string, setting the string on fire, running down the stairs, and lying down on his stomatch on the spot where the sword was going to fall. That was pretty classy.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

i just visualised the sword missing and the man going d'oh!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

or the string doesn't burn out completely, he goes to check, and then the string breaks and the sword drops on his big toe, and he goes d'oh!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Buy one of those parachuting packages and insist on doing it yourself, not in tandem with someone. Jump out of plane and aim for the nearest barn, James Bond style. You'll put a hole in the side, but man, that farmer's going to have a real cool story to tell the insurance adjustors.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

i've done 60 ft jumps into water. we wore our tennis shoes and tried to land feet first. it was kinda shallow and i remember hitting the bottom of the lake VERY hard.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040905/images/2004-09-052004-09-05acapulco.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

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