If you were in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11th, would you have jumped?

Question

As I watched all the reports over the past week, I thought about what I would do in a situation like that. Those poor people having to decided to make that awful choice. I know we would never really know unless we were actually in that position, but just out of curiosity, if you were trapped above the impact zone would you have jumped?

Answer 1

This is a REALLY good question, actually. It's morbid but I thought the same thing over the past couple days after seeing pictures of people jumping from those towers. I can't imagine their pain and fear...I just can't imagine it. Burning to death is such a horrible way to go and jumping is equally terrifying. I think I would have had to stay in the towers rather than jump--I'm terrified of heights so I doubt I would have been in the towers to begin with--but I just can't see myself jumping of my own volition. I have never, thankfully, been in such a situation so I can't say for sure. I have always had a fear of someone seeing me dead on the pavement. I can't help it. These are my very real fears.

The other thing I can't get out of my head are the documentaries inside the WTC after the airliners crashed into them and you can hear the bodies slamming down overhead. HOW AWFUL! It's so surreal, listening to that, knowing that those are actual human beings, people who have family who love them that will miss them dreadfully. I don't know how those rescuers concentrated with that sound going on and knowing what was happening on the floors above to make people jump. And yet those firefighters and police officers, etc., made their way UP into the inferno. The bravery and tenacity of those brave men and women will forever stay with me.

I cannot imagine what those families thought of people taking pictures of their loved ones as they plunged to their deaths. To me, the people jumping are innocent, nameless victims: I didn't know them but I can feel incredible sympathy for them. There have got to be families that have seen pictures of their loved one jumping to his or her death. I can't even fathom their sadness from this tragedy, looking at such a horrific photograph. It would be my fear as well that someone would have photographed me on my way down and my mom and dad and kids would have to see that. For that, I would probably have stayed put and prayed. Hopefully those people who didn't jump and weren't initially burned on impact succumbed to smoke inhalation (not pretty either, I hear) but it would have been preferable to any other fate.

Answer 2

I have absolutely no idea what I would do in a situation like that. It is horrible to even think about and I feel terrible for the poor people who died in the attacks. I don't know how anyone could choose between either of those sure-fire deaths. How awful. I only hope that I would have acted as selflessly as this man did. He was just one of the people who worked in Morgan Stanley and he actually stayed in to get other people out. He died, but saved so many! It was very interesting and inspiring. I have never heard of such a wonderful act of selflessness! Go check it out! It's truly inspirational!

Answer 3

i don't comprehend with the aid of fact the bible teaches that no guy is conscious if he's saved. My question to you is why could a loving writer carry it against a individual who makes a call they're compelled into with the aid of soreness they're suffering? Nowhere interior the Bible does it say which you're compelled to burn in hearth and not allowed to run faraway from it considering which you may land up killing your self. those people who jumped did so interior the main excruciating soreness possible and clearly felt that they had no decision. They have been put in that subject with the help of people who're defective into thinking that they are the only ones who're going to heaven with the help of their ideals. they're basically as defective with the aid of fact an identical people who carry forth fake christianity.

Answer 4

Probably not. I'm one of those hopelessly optimistic people and I would not have given up hope. Unless it was too hot to bear and jumping was the only alternative to feeling yourself slowly burn. Jeez, that's a horrible thought. Lets just say I'm glad I didn't have to make that decision.

Answer 5

I really don't know... I would have been so scared.

Scared of buring to death,
Scared I wouldn't ever get out,
Scared to Jump,
Scared another plane would hit,
Scared of what might be happening outside,
I really don't know what I would have done. I can't imagine myself jumping, knowing that I would fall to my death. I would probably have sat and waited for someone to rescue me, or I would have tried to get out somehow... look for an exit. Run through the fire maybe? I don't think I would have jumped knowing that I didn't even try to save myself.

Answer 6

Yes. A quick death is better than slowly dying, especially when its painful. I would rather be dead on impact than trying to catch my breath or getting my skin burned off me.

Answer 7

they were saying people above the impact zone the floors were so hot that's why they jumped it makes sense cause there is a fire and heat rises so i'd rather jump then burn to death.

Answer 8

they only jumped because of the intense heat and smoke, it was like they were forced. not everyone was close enough to a window to try to get air. you probably would have jumped too.

Answer 9

No person knows the answer to a question like that until they are actually faced with the decision. With fire lapping at your back, and your hair burning, who knows what you would do?

And, by the way, 9/11 obviously IS discussed here. We're discussing it!
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Answer 10

i'm not in any way shape or form making lite of that day....but if i were in that situation..i would hope that with everything that is in me,, to have a heart attack first,, then i wouldn't have to die a horrible death by fire or jumping.....