[Monty22]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

[Texas_Dawg]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

I was there watching it that day. This article is really, really stupid.

[mikegi]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

Exactly. My guess, this silly article aside, is the people who "jumped" actually were overcome by heat and smoke or lost their grip from exhaustion. They probably had burns on their arms and legs. A horrific death. In the photos I've seen, people were hanging way outside the windows trying to escape from the fire and smoke.

[giotto]

I have examined the photos of people at the top of the smoking towers, and my theory is that many of the so-called jumpers did not intentionally jump--they fell. And the reason they fell is that, due to the deliberately narrow windows, they were forced to lean sideways out of the windows in order to get their heads far enough out to be able to breathe. The spaces were designed to be less than the shoulder width of the architect, who was intensely acrophobic.

[HitmanLV]

Any doctors or scientists on this thread? I have heard that in situations like this you die before you hit the ground, blacking out from the fall, and possibly that your neck is broken from the fall, so that when you hit the ground, you are already dead.

Any truth to this, or is it a 6th grader's science project? I was wondering that on 9-11, and also hope to never actually find out.

[GretchenEE]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

Amen.

[ladyinred]

Did you actually read the article? I didn't get anything like that out of this. It was very moving, and in no way disrespectful.

[Quix]

If not before jumping,

I suspect 10 seconds is sufficient time to make one's peace with God.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

well not to come off morbid here..but i woulda jumped to..figure if im going to die..might as well have fun doing it

9-11 proved 3 things to me...arabs are a pain in the butt and need to be dealt with harshly...that we cant trust anyone except britain (and being irish-american thats not easy to say lol)and 3: i will never get to base jump off the twin towers..man would that have been a rush

[normy]

That sounds like it would make a good Dem motto " Embrace Your Fate"