Have you ever wondered why some people choose to jump off bridges into water to end their lives? Is there a high chance they will survive? Let’s explore the reasons behind this heartbreaking decision and the potential outcomes.
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Reasons for Jumping off Bridges
– Desire to end physical or emotional pain
– Feeling trapped or hopeless
– Seeking a quick and dramatic end to suffering
Possible Outcomes
– Survival with serious injuries
– Drowning despite intending to end life
– Rescue and opportunity for mental health support
Let’s delve deeper into this complex and sensitive issue with empathy and understanding.
It is highly individual, but many who have survived told us that they regretted it the moment they let go of the railing.
Gets the job done. Not in the family home for family to have to deal with. . . Guns are messy, pills can hurt, may not be able to get a gun/pills. hanging may hurt and lots of suffering. . . Bridges are available. . Some may be drawn to water because it’s peaceful?
Depending on the bridge height, no, the chance of survival isn’t particularly high. At a certain velocity it’s basically like hitting concrete.
No, most bridges are high enough off the water that when you hit it it will be like hitting concrete.
From my recollection, the rate of speed of someone or something falling is 32 feet per second per second. This means that the speed doubles every second.
Given how high above the water bridges usually are–to enable boats and ships to pass under them–someone jumping from a bridge will be going pretty fast and will hit the water with force enough to cause a lot of internal damage, including broken bones. If the force of hitting the water doesn’t kill them, drowning will. Yeah, it’s possible one could survive, but not likely.
You’d be surprised how solid water feels after a 400ft drop
To drown. Either they can’t swim or have additional weight on them. Pretty simple.
It’s easier to jump than to do it yourself, it’s easier to end your life when you know you won’t harm others (for example, like jumping off a building), it might even be easier knowing your family might never have to see your body if you drown or that they might still have room to believe it was an accident and not their fault.
And it might be a lingering hope that they might live. That they might find value in their life by doing something drastic enough.
Damn is it morbid, but I’m guessing they think it leaves less or a mess or trace for others to clean up.
Someone needs to scrape the pavements on streets too.
I lost someone to this. There will be a myriad of reasons a person decides on their method, and it is important to remember people in that frame of mind are not thinking rationally. In their case I imagine it was just the most readily available method with a seemingly high enough success rate. If you survive the fall then the back up is drowning. They did survive the fall and died from a combination of the impact trauma and drowning. I also think people overestimate how high you need to be to die on impact and the fact that it matters how you hit the water. Until I had to live through the aftermath, I certainly never thought much about it. It was a pretty tall bridge, I would have thought it was high up enough to cause death on impact. I needed to know everything I could to help me understand. Even though it is like hitting concrete, concrete does not break like the surface of water and there is a big difference between falling say, 80 feet, onto concrete than into water. But most people probably are not thinking about that, especially those in crisis. You just see something tall and figure jumping off of it is 100% fatal and fast; easier to get to the top of a bridge than the roof of a building.
I guess the best explanation is, we are trying to rationalize something that is inherently irrational.
Landing into the water from a high places is like hitting the ground and you break your bones from the weight of the water.
Do you have any suicidal thoughts? If so please get help and try to get rid of this idea
At those heights, the impact with water is comparable to hitting concrete. Also, if they survive, they can drown. Depending on the season and temperature, the water may also be cold enough to make them die of hypothermia.
On another note, isn’t CO poisoning really peaceful way to die?
Don’t you just go to sleep?
You ever hit a belly flop or back smacker at the pool off the diving board? Yeah? Now imagine that 100ft up
high chance? no
Not many bridges over land
There are bridges known for successful suicides, if you live near said bridge, it could just be more present in your mind.
Here (in the dutch lands) we have 3-6 people that jump in front of a train, it’s so sad from all perspectives
Hitting water at a high velocity will cause a sudden deceleration that will cause catastrophic injury, but to the people ITT repeating it: It absolutely is not “like hitting concrete”.
It’s still bad, but going from high speed to still in an instant on a slab of concrete will render a human into paste compared to the disfigured, yet relatively in tact bodies that are fished out of water after a suicide, who went from high speed to very low speed over a few feet.
Idk, seems like taking a bunch of pills would be the best way but people gotta be flashy for some reason.
When I was suicidal I thought a lot about jumping off a bridge. Points in favor was instant or near instant death, it wouldn’t be the family finding my body, it would be fun (while in the air).
But I think that most people who consider that option do so because it’s an easily available option if you live near bridges, or sky scrapers.
Points against was that i couldn’t quite figure out the logistics, like do I just park my car on the road and block traffic?
Do I park before the bridge and walk out on the bridge, that would create a lot of attention and where do i leave the suicide note etc. Am i even sure my body will be found and identified.
Ultimately i decided that if dying instantly, as to not feel pain, was the goal it would be better to put my head on the rail road tracks.
Luckily I have gotten a lot of help and am doing better.
If you have started to actually plan your suicide you should definitely get help.
Whether or not you have a plan for killing yourself is one of the questions a therapist will ask if you bring up suicidal thoughts, and if you do have a plan they consider you at a much higher risk of actually doing it.
Because the water will kill them?
>Isn’t there high chance that they will survive?
No. Life isn’t like in movies or video games.
Never understood that. Always seemed like an unnecessarily bad way to go. Suffocating/choking on water? To long and too much struggle if you ask me
it’s not minecraft, hitting water can, and will kill you
Coz people are dumb?
Less dumb people go with inert gas or hypothermia.
Because they want to return to the place all living things originated from.
Because a lot of bridges go over water. It’s not rocket science.
Ever done a belly flop in a pool and had it hurt like hell and knock the wind out of you? Now imagine that scenario from a 60+ foot drop. Hitting water from those heights is like hitting pavement, it will shatter your bones and knock you unconscious.