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Would you have jumped?

For one of my English classes this year I had to study the book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (which is an excellent book, I highly recommend it). It got me really curious about the 9/11 attacks, and I was wondering, if you were there, in one of the towers would you have stayed (probably aware that you were going to die from the smoke, fire or towers collapsing) or would you have jumped out of one of the windows?

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xtoldx9 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (7 minutes after post)

no,
i would prefer to die with all my organs in tact so other people can use them
i obviously wouldnt need them.

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dancefloordestroyer 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (9 minutes after post)

But your body/organs would have been ruined anyway wouldn’t they?
I specifically mean if you were in one of those towers…

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (11 minutes after post)

no, i wouldnt.

see,
theres more of a chance for survival if you just try to get out,
theres a slight chance that i could have survived.
not the greatest chance,
but then again making my body explode by plunging from 70 stories doesn’t sound pleasant.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (12 minutes after post)

Hmmm ok, thanks.

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Kangerlussuaq, 01, GL | 1 year, 5 months ago (14 minutes after post)

yes (only if i knew for sure that I was gonna die). What a better last sight than a beautiful aerial view of Manhattan? Plus I love jumping from things, so it’d be like a final adrenaline rush.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (15 minutes after post)

well depending on how far i was up in the building i would have most likely jumped if i was way far up but if i were lower to the ground i would have tryed to get out just becuz the higher u jump the faster u die cuz u would die before u hit the ground

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Kangerlussuaq, 01, GL | 1 year, 5 months ago (16 minutes after post)

yeah i hear you die from a heart attack before you even hit the ground.

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dancefloordestroyer 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (18 minutes after post)

brat_79 wrote:
well depending on how far i was up in the building i would have most likely jumped if i was way far up but if i were lower to the ground i would have tryed to get out just becuz the higher u jump the faster u die cuz u would die before u hit the ground

I think that’s what I’d do too. I’d also want to find someone to jump with (like as in hold their hand and jump) because I wouldn’t want to die alone =(

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1 year, 5 months ago (35 minutes after post)

this is the most depressing question ever.

dancefloordestroyer 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (36 minutes after post)

Sorry =( …

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Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 hour, 9 minutes after post)

yodaluv12 wrote:
yeah i hear you die from a heart attack before you even hit the ground.

nah that just means your chicken.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (12 hours, 32 minutes after post)

yodaluv12 wrote:
yeah i hear you die from a heart attack before you even hit the ground.

yea, but imagine what it would feel like if you didn’t have a heart attack first. OUCH!

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Nottingham, J8, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 day, 20 hours after post)

i couldnt jump, im too scared of falling and i think that would still apply even if i was going to burn to death anyway. i just know i couldnt physically do it. i think that right to the end id be thinking id get saved so wouldnt risk it

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