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Originally Posted by AngelsSix
On a personal note, I hate pain, I would rather go to sleep and never wake up, so I am fighting death all the way to the end. Last thing I would do was watch my death rushing up at me.
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I think about that when I see the photos and video clips of all those poor souls who chose to leap to their deaths from the top floors of the WTC towers. When faced with certain death, either by burning or by high-speed concrete, I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing. Hopefully I'll never have to make that decision.
Back in the '86 or '87 timeframe a video photog leaped from a Twin Beech at Louisburg, just northeast of Raleigh; he was filming a tandem jump. He too, made the jump sans gear. I remember the local news showing the footage recovered from his camera, until just prior to treetop level, where they cut it.
It's hard to imagine what goes thru a man's mind when that happens.. (I know, I know.. you don't have to say it...).
