Suicide Attempts: Why do they jump off buildings when there are less painful ways to do it?

Question

When you hit the ground -- sometimes you don't die right away.

Answer 1

Because it's dramatic, awkward, painful, and a big sign to the world

"See, i killed myself."

It's their final way to get the attention they "deserve".

However, suicide is suicide. It's killing yourself. And they do it by any means necessary. Their minds don't operate normally. We cannot even begin to assume how they feel or what they thought. They just did what they felt was right at the time.

Plus, cutting yourself takes a while unless you hit the vein just right and it's kind of hard for some people to gain access to a gun. And some may not know how to strangle themselves.And maybe... they want to know what it feels like to fly. Even though it's the flight of death, it's ... crazy. Adrenaline rush.

I wonder how many people regret jumping after they do. Now that's a question to ask. Something to wonder about. Right before they die, how many of them wish to turn back time?

Answer 2

"Hey StupidKupid, when they jump off buildings that's not an attempt it's just a suicide. Now, why do suicides jump off buildings when there are less painful ways to do it?
A result from the experience of emotional pain outweighing the individual's coping strategies and resources for dealing with that pain. Some would claim that it can arise due to an individual's unwillingness to impose self-discipline and care about others more than him or herself; however, this idea ignores the ever-present emotional agony and feelings of immense hopelessness that many people with suicide ideology feel, and is sometimes used by family or others to instil shame or guilt in a person with suicidal thoughts in order to avoid a suicide. It may work in some cases, but in others it may only cause a person to continue suffering for the sake of other people, without really addressing their own problems.
Just over 55% of suicides committed in the United States in 2001 were by firearm.
Asphyxiation methods (including hanging) and toxification (poisoning and overdose) are fairly prevalent as well. Each comprised about 20% of suicides in the US during the same time period. Other methods of suicide include blunt force trauma (jumping from a building/bridge or stepping in front of a train for example), bloodletting (slitting one's wrist or throat), self-immolation, electrocution, car collision and intentional starvation.
In the Western world, males die much more often than females by suicide, while females attempt suicide more often. Some medical professionals believe this is due to the fact that males are more likely to end their life through violent means (guns, knives, hanging, drowning, etc.), while women primarily overdose on medications. Others ascribe the difference to inherent differences in male/female psychology, with men having more of an operational mindset and women being more aware of social nuance. In any case, violent suicide attempts are much more likely to be successful. [6] Typically males die from suicide three to four times as often as females.

Jumping from a tall building or from a bridge. The impact can shatter organs and tissues. If a person jumps from a bridge into water, the person may die by drowning rather than by impact, especially if the bridge lies low over the water. Self-defenestration from six stories leads to a 90% chance of death.

It appears, from all accounts of reasons for jumping, that jumping is the most immediately, available method to suicide.

Answer 3

If I could answer that question I would, but I can't talk to the dead and ask them, but I know this, when you know your gonna die, you will jump to save your self from pain and to make that decision is not hard when there are flames at 1300o burning you out of the building to the window 100 stories down and you know your going to burn to death...so you jump!
Frankly I would of done the same thing only when I knew for sure that there was no other alternative. You don;t have much of a decision to make. Its either burn to death or jump/ I'll jump!

Answer 4

Their minds are warped, insane, and we can't figure it out. Mostdo not leave any notes!

Jumping in front of the train does incur some expenses against the estate of the suicider, as, the railroads have every engineer going to grief counceling as it is! So, your mother very often just caves, to the big lawyers, and never does sue the Railroads. She'd lose, anyway!

Answer 5

In our minds eye we can only see the falling part not the stopping. Being in a depressed state of mind they can do neither and take their own lives. Unless we can really walk in their shoes there is no way to fully answer this . Just a horrible way to go

Answer 6

When you're sucidial, you want to end your life by any means, jumping off a roof is a fast way to go.
People who are this bad, don't even think about a way, they use whatever is available or can end their life quickly. They don't think they can possibly survive, so they don't actually think about what could happen.

Answer 7

u die b4 u hit the ground based on the building

Answer 8

I know a bit about this. When they jump, they dont think the way you do. Its almost like being free. Hope you never get there.

Answer 9

there are no less painful ways
hanging- painful
gun shot- painful
stabed with a knife - painful
cut your wrists- painful
pills- makes you fell sick and uncomfortable before you die

Answer 10

some people think that they desrve to have the pain, and it is also because once you start you cant stop and they are afraid to let themselves down again by failing to complete it...

i myself have tried to kill myself once when i was about 13, i took lots of pain medications and it made me really really sick and i had to go to the hospital, well you can feel like its right... like that is the onyl answer and thats about it.