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Hmm, jump or be burned to death. Not exactly a tough choice. Burning is very painful. Jumping doesn't hurt a bit.

In the middle ages the Pope ruled that jumping from a burning tower wasn't suicide.

[Ciexyz]

I read that the death certificates of the Tower victims stated "murder" as the cause of death, because even those who jumped or fell as the heat and flames behind them became too intense, could not be considered "suicides". They were in that position because fanatics attempted to cause them bodily harm, "murder" them.

There's always the possibility that many fell out of the windows by accident, since the air was becoming unbreathable and they leaned further out those windows for air.

[Gondring]

In the middle ages the Pope ruled that jumping from a burning tower wasn't suicide.

The tower doesn't even have to be burning. Lots of twists and turns and exceptions have had to be added since they made suicide a sin hundreds of years after Christ. That was the same meeting where they decided that priests who had taken a vow of vegetarianism had to eat meat broth or be excommunicated, right?