re: Woman unbuckles harness while parasailing. Sadly, she cannot fly. NSFW

I would have ate that arse and brought her happiness to keep her from wanting to kill herself.

Before I click on that video......am I going to watch someone die?

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don't have that sort of confidence but I doubt it would be fatal for everyone. I think people survive falling 160 feet onto ground sometimes, somehow.

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Some people have survived falling thousands of feet when parachute didn’t deploy. Highly unlikely but possible.


Highest recorded cliff dive into water was 191 ft. FAA estimates survival is possible up to a speed of 68.2 mph which is roughly 186 ft fall. Terminal velocity for humans is 120mph

High diving competitions are 89 feet for men.

How you hit the water is important. The safest way is straight down feet first. She fell horizontally and probably hit on her back which at that height is not survivable. Had she fallen feet first she likely could have survived with major injuries

Wood of.

I love how everyone is bagging on sfp for being 100% correct

That’s not a panic attack.

Highest cliff jump ever recorded was 190+ ft fwiw

There's things in psychology called the "High Places Phenomenon" and the "Call of the Void Phenomenon."

The first one... When in a high place, like a cliff or a rooftop or high elevation, some people cannot resist the urge to jump. It's like a hypnotic thing... people who have been restrained by others when they tried to jump can't describe what came over them, exactly, except it was like a panic attack. Part of fear of heights is thinking about falling, for some people it gets out of control.

Do you remember that art thing they built in NYC or Brooklyn a few years ago? Like a funnel shaped thing of steps that gave you great views of the city... and they had to close it pretty quickly because people kept jumping to their deaths from it... like high school kids there with their families, or people there with their spouses or partners... so not typical suicide scenarios.

For "The Call of the Void" Phenomenon, it's a broader urge to do anything that would harm yourself in a situation: drive into oncoming traffic, cut yourself when holding a knife, jump into dark water from a boat, electrocute yourself...

This weirds me out because I DON'T have these urges, at all... and when you read about them they say "it's normal... unless you can't stop yourself from doing them."

but the thing is that people with extra-high anxiety levels sometimes seem not to be able to control their reactions to it.

I think this is why a lot of people kill themselves, especially with guns, that did not seem at all to be depressed or have a reason to be suicidal.

frick... people are fricked up, I guess...

HEALTHLINE: Demystifying the Call of the Void
The call of the void is a phenomenon involving an impulse to jump or let yourself fall from a high place. While unnerving, it’s relatively common and isn’t necessarily a cause for concern.

nOCD: Intrusive thoughts when you’re around high places? What it really means
Have you ever walked along a bridge or near a cliff when suddenly, for no apparent reason, you had an intrusive thought: “What if I jumped?” Despite what you might think, this is not uncommon.

For some people, the feeling that they might jump, even though they definitely don’t want to, is what some researchers have dubbed the high-place phenomenon (HPP). HPP was named as such by a group of psychologists at Florida State University in 2012. They theorized that these thoughts or urges might be our brains’ way of responding to a primal instinct—such as stepping away from the edge of a cliff to keep ourselves safe.

ScienceABC: Why Do We Feel The “Urge To Jump” When On A Balcony?

NYPost: Inside the struggle to prevent suicides at NYC’s Vessel

What a weird story