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| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
I found this one to be a reminder of 09/11 and people jumping out of the WTC. Stunning that someone would do that. I think I'd just take a deep breathe and inhale all of the smoke and die. The thought of falling a hundred stories just isn't appealing in any facet. |
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flame yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don‘t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
/DFW
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