He fell 9 stories but didn't die until he reached the hospital? How is that possible?
Ummmmm....it was a long fall?
I know of a guy who fell 24 stories and lived. Unfortunately he fell from a 25 story building.
Or, maybe they poured the remains into a bag and didn't pronounce him until they got to the hospital. It's not like he was going to get more dead if they waited...
"He fell 9 stories but didn't die until he reached the hospital? How is that possible?"
From Guiness:
Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.
BTW, at least 1 person is said to have survived for a few minutes after jumping on 9-11, even tho most of her body was pulverized.
He fell on a hospital?
I believe unless there is a decapitation, only a medical professional (MD) can declare a death. Thus the numerous fatal accidents where people obviously dead weren't declared dead until later.
Cuz you ain't dead till Mr Fancy Pants college educated Doctor says you're dead. Doesn't matter if they have to use a street sweeper and fire hose to get you off the street. You are officially alive until the ambulance gets you to the hospital and the MD 'declares' you dead.
Granted, I'm being a bit hyperbolic -- but not much.
He was still breathing.
There are people that jumped from the WTC and survived for a short period after hitting the ground. The details are probably best left unsaid, though.
Suffice it to say that if you ever find yourself falling from a great height, make sure you hit the ground head first unless you want to risk more suffering afterwards.
Around 1980 a guy who was high on LSD fell down an air shaft that went all the way from the top to the bottom of the Transamerica pyramid building in San Francisco. He lived.
He fell 9 stories but didn't die until he reached the hospital? How is that possible?"
He was a liberal and landed on his head.
Assuming he was dead, I believe NY State has a law about moving dead bodies until the appropriate authorities show up,
and make whatever determination.
So, you pay big bucks for a ticket to some venue, and somebody dies by accident, natural causes, etc, they still go
through the motions so that the show can go on. Or traffic can still get by.
If you check out stuff on bridge over water jumpers, they tend to die from internal bleeding, rather than drowning.
In my part of the world (Texas) only a doctor or a justice of the peace can declare someone dead.
At 2 in the morning it is very hard to find a JP. Paramedics have been known to put an I.V. in the dead guy's arm and take him to the emergency room so that the E.R. doc can pronounce.
Something similar may have occured here.