on that fateful september day?
2006-10-13 03:15:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
From a psychological point of view it depend what went through their minds;
a) Oh Jesus the buildings on fire, the walls are crumbling and the heat is unbearable, I've got to end this torment right now (this would be suicide - in the same way that a terminal patient chooses to end a life of agony).
b) Crikey, the building's collapsing! I estimate my chance of survival to be greater if I jump out of a 100 storey window (a bad judgement call by all accounts, but no more suicidal than someone in a stressful situation swerving the wrong way in a car accident).
a - is suicidal, b - is just desperate.
2006-10-13 06:02:37 · answer #1 · answered by Warrior Hamster 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The heat was so intense, and the oxygen had been burnt up, so that it was impossible to survive there.
Therefore jumping offered more chance of survival than staying, and certainly removed the intense pain.
Not suicide, but a last ditch effort to survive.
2006-10-13 20:35:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sat there on 9/11 and watched several of my former employees jump. In talking with their families I found out the final insurance company ruling was made on Thursday September 13th. They were considered murdered in an act of terrorism.
Many of them attempted to form parachutes out of clothing and office supplies in an effort to slow there fall. This clearly shows it was an attempt to save their life, not an attempt to end it.
2006-10-13 21:16:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question! The same as is it suicide if it is an accidental overdose?
I truly think the people who jumped maybe thought they had a remote chance of survival by jumping.
2006-10-13 10:25:14 · answer #4 · answered by Punky 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't think so. They had two options - to surely die in a crumbling/burning/melting building or jump and may be survive. They chose the possibility of life over certain death.
2006-10-13 10:23:17 · answer #5 · answered by OlgaBJ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
No more so than if they had done nothing until the fire found them.
I think it should be considered a testament to human bravery that those people did such a thing.
They were cold-bloodedly murdered. All of them.
2006-10-13 10:54:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
Suicide is a decision someone makes to die INSTEAD of living. The people who jumped out of the building had no such choice. Their choice was one of how they were going to die.
2006-10-13 10:23:48 · answer #7 · answered by lunatic 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no because they would have died if they stayed in the building too, who knows maybe jumping out of the building they would have lived
2006-10-13 10:25:52 · answer #8 · answered by aliza c 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I think they thought they might have a chance of survial if they jumped.
2006-10-13 10:17:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-10-13 10:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by caylinn1996 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋