How does jumping off a bridge kill you?

[yummy22]

Not wrong, just not enough

Surface tension and high speed inertia of internal organs will kill you. Having a lot of your bones broken and massive internal bleeding will kill you, if not, you will drown.

Would rather take a bullet to the head, suffocation is a ****ty way to die.

not really

have you never been put in a choke before? you dont really feel anything besides lightheaded then you pass out. that is exaclty how it would be like dying it would take only a few seconds until your out cold then a little longer to actually kill you

[ed5482]

when you jump off the air is moving so fast past you that you are unable to breathe, all of the fast air siphons into your nose, inflates your whole body and you implode... then fall into the water...

[clocksnmirrors]

not really

have you never been put in a choke before? you dont really feel anything besides lightheaded then you pass out. that is exaclty how it would be like dying it would take only a few seconds until your out cold then a little longer to actually kill you

i don't know about that... there's such a thing as panicking
you know how time seems to slow down when you're in a catastrophic situation
i bet that few seconds seems like an eternity

[GetBigyo]

If you're jumping off a bridge like the GG that's 200+ft, I would assume you would have some sort of body shut down in the air or maybe have a heart attack, no?

[MikeDavies84]

Here you go op. Skip to 5:50

[STAYDENCH]

Pretty obvious, you ever slapped water with your fingers together? See how hard the water feels; if you fell from that distance and landed badly you'd break you're bones

Obviously Olympic divers like Tom ***got touch the water with the least possible water resistance and they don't dive from extremely high heights

[myfacewhen]

fukin loling at the responses and the ppl calling out the troll posts ITT

[lampelys]

Just to bring some more fuking sense into this sh!tty thread filled with broscience - Only hanging with a proper noose and from a height will break the neck. Christmas fact of the day!

Also, rapid deceleration from a bridge into water will cause your organs to say "welp I guess that's that" and go offline. From a proper height of course.

[Darkhare]

High dive is like 35 feet above water

Golden Gate bridge is about 220 feet above water.

Depends on how you fall. You could break neck or have serious brain damage/ organ failure. I think most break their legs and drown.

As for hanging most don't break their necks. They cut circulation of the carotid artery and pass out. Die from no blood to brain.

finally


technique this and that... no... it's way fuken higher than olympic divers..... geeze guys.

[pieceofdebri79]

Also, the the breaking of the neck during a hanging depends on how far the initial fall is. A lot of people die from suffocation during a hanging be cause they just dangle. Brother and close friend of mine went that way...

[notbadnotbrad]

This. It's pretty much like hitting the ground.

So jumping from the same height and hitting concrete and water is equivelant ?

[Divall213]

That's because the olympians throw a little stone before they jump to create a ripple effect in the water and allow a clean penetration to the surface (phd in science checking in)

So if I'm falling from great heights into water, I should take everything in my pockets and chuck it into the water before I hit.

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[damoboss]

Has anyone mentioned they spray the water at the olympics with a hose to break the surface tension?

Have a look at a dive and see.

[CelticTheTruth]

surface tension of the water.

if you could break the surface with something before you fall in it, grenade or some kind of explosives or something that's falling faster than you, you will sustain less injury.

[everglide123]

Most of the organs in your body are held in suspension. If you accelerate towards the water at 20+ mph falling, your insides are going to continue accelerating when you body hits a dead stop, and something has to give. Broken bones and massive internal bleeding.

First poster to actually answer the question, lol @ all those calling OP an idiot or saying ' surface tension', you're not f*cking explaining the process of the impact affecting your brain/internal organs.

[tbone73]

Is it the impact with the water, drowning, or what?

I recently learned that you hang yourself by breaking your neck, not suffocating, so now i'm curious

Srs, no suicidal

its kinda that sudden stop at the end....

[2RDEYE]

its the impact

[Kaduceus]

Impact knocks you unconscious and you drown is usually how it goes. Massive internal damage accelerates the process.

And most suicides where the person hangs themselves they die of asphyxiation. Only in professional executions by hanging does the person typically die of a broken neck. You need a drop to snap the rope taut and break the vertebrae. Usually too complicated for a person to do themselves.

[S4V4NT]

Impact knocks you unconscious and you drown is usually how it goes. Massive internal damage accelerates the process.

And most suicides where the person hangs themselves they die of asphyxiation. Only in professional executions by hanging does the person typically die of a broken neck. You need a drop to snap the rope taut and break the vertebrae. Usually too complicated for a person to do themselves.

but when you pass out, wouldnt the water wake you back up?

[MirinmySwoll]

Is it the impact with the water, drowning, or what?

I recently learned that you hang yourself by breaking your neck, not suffocating, so now i'm curious

Srs, no suicidal

That's enough Jerry

[ltrrtl218]

then how do they dive in the olympics??

well i understand that because they dive into pools where the water is still. but in a natural body of water, its usually moving. so there would already be ripples right? so how are people dying?

can't tell if serious or not. lets not forgot the high dive is like 30ft in the olympics and the usually people jump from bridges hundreds of feet above the water

[Hammersia]

The impact causes catastrophic internal damage. There have been cases of people surviving jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge but they are very rare.

More interesting is out of the few survivors of these suicide attempts, about 50% changed their minds about wanting to die as they were falling..... Fact

[betajohn]

throw ur shoe before u enter the water and break the impact and survive... its easy

[Hammersia]

Has anyone mentioned they spray the water at the olympics with a hose to break the surface tension?

Have a look at a dive and see.

No they don't, they do it so that the diver can see the surface of the water better. Does nothing to reduce surface tension yer dumass

[Hammersia]

First poster to actually answer the question, lol @ all those calling OP an idiot or saying ' surface tension', you're not f*cking explaining the process of the impact affecting your brain/internal organs.

Might be the first poster to attempt to answer, but it's still garbage, misusing acceleration for velocity, I've complained before why can't the misc get educated on some really basic science before getting into this sort of witless debate....

[auroturtle]

Why the **** did this turn into a 3pg thread, should have known it would turn into a physics debate

[Weontv]

i always used to think ppl jumped off bridges without water underneath them so they hit the ground and die. but then i learned about how most bridge suicides in the US were at the golden gate bridge. how are all these people dying if they land in the water? i watch the summer olympics and people survive the high dive all the time.

God you are a moron. The golden gate bridge is at least 4x taller then the taller olympic diving board. DERP.

[jrhodez]

hitting water at over a certain speed makes it very similar to hitting solid ground

[IsThisRealLife]

Here is a technique for surviving a high fall into water: Curl into a ball, and then start to spin head over heels. If you have ever seen a circular saw blade cut into wood, It is the same principle. If you were to just lower the saw blade onto the wood without it spinning, the saw will break. While spinning, the wood is the thing that gives way.

[Mister-Lean]

This thread makes me think that there are probably a lot of really slow people out there who accidentally committed suicide.