[Billthegravedigger]

Originally Posted by kittycatgirl ↗

i have done a lot of thinking as to what i would do,and in the end,i do not think religion came into it...as a Catholic myself,and suicide is considered a sin,what these people did that day is NOT suicide...it was just a horrible decision of do i slowly burn to death and suffer? or do i jump and in 10 seconds feel no pain,i have the utmost respect for those people that were forced into a terrible situation of no doing of their own...i know i would have jumped...at the very least to not have suffered as much.You cannot blame these people for doing what they did. Blame the bastards who put them in that situation in the first place.

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[vamptay]

I could have never jumped out, I'm terrified of highs so bad that I would rather burn or suffocate from the smoke. I was still in school when this happened and I remember we were all taken into the Lunch Room and was told what happened and they turned the news on. Was one scary day, they even closed the schools and we were down in Mississippi, guess we didn't know what could happen next.

[Valerii]

There are some situations in life in which it is simply impossible to predict your own actions. You have no way of knowing what you'd do in their place unless or until you are in the same situation. The way the jumpers have been treated by the media and even the government is reprehensible. Their memory has been all but erased because of some antiquated superstition about suicide.

First of all, it's not suicide to jump out of a burning building. Suicide is a conscious decision to end your life that involves a premeditation that these people did not have. None of them got up that morning intending to jump off a building. Suicide also involves a choice between life or death. These people had no such choice. Their only choice was in the manner of death.

I don't mean to offend anybody's faith here, but frankly I find the idea of suicide being a mortal sin greater than all others to be a backwards and rather medieval superstition. Next to something like the rape/mutilation of children, killing your parents, mass murder, etc., seems to me like there are way worse sins you can commit besides killing yourself. Personally, I can't accept the idea that a loving God would punish someone for succumbing to their pain or despair. That doesn't make any sense to me.

If you have ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease, where you lose control of all your muscles, even the ones you use to swallow), you know you are going to die anyway, really slowly and you're REALLY going to suffer. Would a loving God punish you for choosing to end it before you have to endure that? We put animals out of their misery to keep them from suffering but not people. That's the choice those jumpers had. They had already suffered unspeakably choking with smoke inhalation, the unbearable heat and the certain knowledge that they were about to die very badly. Choosing the manner of your own death in such a situation isn't suicide.

It's dignity.

The jumpers should be identified and their stories should be published. Honestly, I'd like to be able to mourn them by name and honor their courage. Their anonymity is what draws me to them. It's grossly unfair for them to be covered up and treated like they died in shame. They were murdered just like everyone else that day, and we watched.

[fapfapfap]

You're making a big deal over nothing. Any lack of coverage about 9/11 jumpers had nothing to do with a suicide taboo and everything to do with the death of jumpers being that much more explicit than any other deaths. There will always be a hesitation to show footage of/discuss the details of those deaths.

Besides that, they were and are currently mourned no differently than everyone else who were victims that day.

[Abyssion]

I'm disgusted that people act like this is the worst event in history. Much much more worse events are happening around the world, with much much higher death tolls, but because this happened to USA, omg its the worst thing ever

[fapfapfap]

Originally Posted by Abyssion ↗

I'm disgusted that people act like this is the worst event in history. Much much more worse events are happening around the world, with much much higher death tolls, but because this happened to USA, omg its the worst thing ever

You're absolutely right, and you also should get over yourself.

[Kaboom]

Many catholic families refused to go to their funerals because it's a sin to commit suicide. No religion should come before family members and I find these catholics worse than the terrorists for what they chose to do.

[KnIgHtStAr666]

This brings back memories for me. I remember seeing all this live. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing at the time. I was forever changed from that point. Very sad day!! R.I.P. No one can hurt you anymore