Standard Bank employee falls to their death at bank's Rosebank offices

You could even say reaching terminal velocity was what did it.
We jump and land on the ground all the time without dying, the problem is the amount of time/distance between the jumping and the landing that was problematic.
Given we live on a planet with gravity, it's the speed that kills.
It's the stop that kills - known as a rapid deceleration injury, often coupled with blunt chest trauma usually resulting in a transected aorta.
A transected aorta requires an emergency thorocotomy - which in turn carries a 94% mortality rate
 
A Standard Bank employee fell to their death
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It's the stop that kills - known as a rapid deceleration injury, often coupled with blunt chest trauma usually resulting in a transected aorta.
A transected aorta requires an emergency thorocotomy - which in turn carries a 94% mortality rate
for the curious:
here is the procedure - motor vehicle accident.
surgeons have to gain access to the heart, there is no time to go in thru the sternum, so entry is gained via intercostal space (between ribs).
descending aorta has burst, therefore no blood to the heart and none to organs, blood builds up within the heart cavity.
a typical injury leading to death in high impact injuries (mva, jumpers etc).

video is age restricted, definitely not for the workplace or the squeamish

 
No, its relative speed, and yes, rapid deceleration is still relative.

It is relative. However, you will be alive while accelerating during a fall. Even if you reach atmospheric terminal velocity. You will only die when you decelerate very suddenly upon hitting the ground during a fall from a great height.
 
y'all work in some weird places, Id probably never feel right about using that bathroom, knowing somebody died right there,

bad vibes there must be something else,
yes I know Death and taxes are inevitable, but still Id like to think people go on their own terms surrounded by family and painlessly pass from this world into the next, smoothly having lived a full life, had plenty of Joy, and left an impact to others.

not dying in some Corporate battery Cage sweatshop, having yelled for help, put people too focused on their own survival to notice.
If I was the manager at SB, some serious words would be said to all the health and wellness folks around the building, that neglected to do their job.
LOL.

It doesn't work like that - DEATH comes when it comes, and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it, irrespective how well/bad you lived and irrespective of your age.

Suicide, however, is usually that guy/girl that is the quiet/introvert type that hardly ever mentions what troubles him/her, and then suddenly one day takes the plunge. And usually, not even his/her closest family/partner/friends expect it.

The one who openly threatens suicide every other day is usually just seeking attention and usually doesn't have the balls to carry it through.

And BTW, your scenario where the soon-to-be-departed-individual yells for help is pure Hollywood fiction. What happens when you have a massive heart attack is you get a hellova chest-pain, your heart cramps up and stops beating and then you are already incapacitated (cannot move/talk/call/press a button for help) and should there be no immediate intervention your brain stops functioning due oxygen starvation - and then you are CLINICALLY DEAD.
 
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