When jumping off a building i've heard it's the freefall that kills you not the landing.?

Question

I've heard this but I'm skeptical because if that were true skydiving indiced deaths would be more common. Any comments?

Answer 1

theres a medical term for overstressing ur nervous system

this will cause blood pressure failure and lead to heart cease

this can be caused by overexcitation: fear, fright etc

although i dunt know the term, cuz am an engineer, i think u can find it online its vaso- smthng

Answer 2

Its not the fall its coming to an abrupt halt that kills you.

Answer 3

skydiving and jumping off a building are of different heights.

for jumping off a building, its the impact between the free-falling body, whose acceleration is sped up by gravity, and the ground. since, according to Newton, for every action there is a complete and opposite reaction, the force exerted by the falling body is equally reciprocated by the ground thus causing death.

however, on skydiving, it can be of different factors. first up is the pressure gradient. as we go up, the pressure goes down and a sudden change of pressure can greatly affect our vestibular senses causing breakage of our ear drums; cardiac arrests are also possible. another factor is the Oxygen breathed at extreme heights, since as we go up the air becomes thinner, insufficient supply of Oxygen may be a factor.

i hope i was able to clarify things for you :D

Answer 4

1 in 50 skydivers die every year.

most people that do jump off a building mean to also, so in my opinion it doesn't matter anyway

#2 reason for skydiver to plummet to their death is parachute failure, so jumping out is only half the problem

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure its the landing because like you said you could sky dive and not die...so probably its the part when you splat on the ground..(ew).haha

Answer 6

On youtube they screamed till they splatted.

Answer 7

It is definitely the landing that kills you. Like you say otherwise skydiving wouldn't even work. Or bunjie jumping, or para-sailing, or base jumping. etc...   Falling doesn't kill you, Landing does. lol

Answer 8

if the shock from u falling doesnt kill u then hitting the ground more than likely will. it just depends if ur heart can handle the shock of it all.

Answer 9

Totally untrue.  It is definitely the Pauli Exclusion Principle (i.e. no two objects, in this case you and the ground, may occupy the same space at the same time) in combination with gravity and momentum that kills you.

An extreme example of free fall can be illustrated by astronauts orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station.  In order to orbit the Earth the space station and astronauts in it travel fast enough laterally to the curve of the globe of the Earth that they counteract the force of gravity resulting in a continuous free fall.  If it was the free fall that killed you then astronauts would not be able to orbit the earth.