It's a good job they were there ready to catch him in that sheet - he might have really hurt himself
Suicidal Man Falls From 41st Floor, Explodes On Impact
Reminds me of a table in an old physics book describing the effect of terminal velocities on objects dropped from various heights - at one speed/distance it simply said "horses splash"....this guy certainly splashed on impact!
(Thinking about the age of the book it wouldn't surprise me if the experimental method actually did involve dropping horses from a great height, after all they blowtorched pigs to determine the effect of cockpit fires on pilots skin, one of the clips from the old days of gore of rottencom etc)
Now imagine what the poor jumpers on 9/11 looked like from 80-100 stories up. Horrible day.
By the time it took to make it down, there was time for most of his past life to pass before his eyes.
Looks as he changed his mind and didn't want to go through with it, but helpers didn't get a hold of him and he go bye bye.
That sure sounded like a wet splat upon hard, dry impact... He must have 'spritzt' quite a bit.
That will turn a person in a heap of goop allright.
65% of terminal velocity is still terminal velocity
Goddamit in an age where every fuckhead is filming 24/7 and no one got the landing?
Grisly! If only the impact itself had been recorded. I would replay that fascinating moment of bodily burst in slow motion again and again.
The comments on the news article are plentiful. A must read.
Anyway, the good news is the medical examiner at the Gautam Buddha Nagar Morgue can use the short form.
Ultimately, we don't know if he survived.
Sometimes, by piecing the fragments together and reattaching them with adhesive, people manage to make a full recovery.