Skydiver, 32, who died jumping from plane at 10,000ft ‘left suicide note’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/skydiver-32-who-died-after-35156866
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Skydiver, 32, who died jumping from plane at 10,000ft ‘left suicide note’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/skydiver-32-who-died-after-35156866
Posted by ClassicFlavour
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This may sound morbid, but she died doing what she loved and went out in style, not suffering a prolonged, painful death either. I feel for her family and those who were with her for the jump, and it is a shame that she was pushed to the point of taking her own life, but I am sure that she will be remembered fondly. It is often said that those who jump to their deaths usually regret the choice on the way down, but her having the capability to deploy her parachute clearly shows that she did not have those thoughts herself. I hope that her family and those who witnessed her death can find peace.
I can understand the desire to end your own life, but she was not alone when she jumped. “Nigel recalled the moment a traumatised parachutist who had been with Jade on her fatal fall turned up at his home. Mr Wreford added: “You can’t imagine how traumatic it must have been. She said he was in a hell of a state. He was very incoherent. It’s horrible. I can’t stop thinking about the girl and her family.” Jesus. Imagine jumping with her, and thinking she will pull her chute any moment. And then having it slowly dawn on you that she has no intention of pulling the chute and then seeing her hit the Earth. I don’t think I’d be able to sleep for a year if I saw that.
I’m all for assisted suicide, but don’t traumatise others because of your own suffering.
As someone who has been suicidal my entire adult life and not able to overcome my survival instinct / fear of the method failing and me surviving with permanent disabilities, I applaud the courage and determination.
If we aren’t able to freely end our own lives, then we are the property of someone else. Non consensual suicide prevention is designed to trap people and make them feel trapped, whilst also gaslighting them into believing that if they don’t want to spend 100 years pushing a metaphorical boulder up the hill, that it means that they are incapable of making rational decisions for themselves (when in fact, it actually shows that they are the ones rational and clear headed enough to see past instincts that have been instilled in us by unintelligent design, for no teleological purpose).
Perhaps we will one day be enlightened enough to demand suicide pods, like in Futurama.
After dealing with depression myself, I understand what must’ve been going through her mind, and that to someone in that situation, death is rationalised as a finality to any physical or mental anguish. I guess all of that is also why some people in this situation also gets into extreme sports. Aside from the adrenaline to make you feel alive, it would be just so easy to end it as well. At least she found her own peace, even if it isn’t how anyone else would like to comprehend it.
But I feel for the skydiver who accompanied her, having to watch someone’s death in live action, being unable to do anything about it, wondering in that split second if the chute is working or if it failed or wasn’t packed properly, and dealing with the aftermath of seeing what remains of her body after such an impact.
That trauma will stay and affect him for the rest of his life. All acts of suicide, even ones less gruesome. No amount of training on all the realities of what can go wrong will prepare you to deal with it in front of your own eyes.
I do find myself wondering what this young lady had been going through that must’ve been so bad for her to take her own life in this way. On the face of it looks like she had a normal life successful career and married but who knows what else was going on. I’m 37 good career but no house, unmarried, never been in a serious relationship for that matter with a fuck tonne of other things going on around me but I’ve never once thought about taking my own life. Scary.
I’ve been skydiving a long time and I heard about this incident the day it happened, thinking it just had to be suicide.
I’m not aware of anyone going out in similar circumstances in recent history.
The centre she died at are a great bunch and I’m sure they’re really hurting after this one.
Blue skies, chick.
Much sympathy for the woman who felt like she had to take her own life but my god, the person I actually feel the most for is the person who jumped with her. What an unbearable trauma he has to live with for the rest of his life.
My brother died by suicide and it’s true that it doesn’t stop the pain, it just passes it on to other people.
It’s such a long way down. Plenty of time to change your mind. Awful.
Can someone paste the article in the comments? I refuse to accept cookies to read an article like this.
Stop judging people who are suicidal they are not thinking straight.
A lot of comments here are so nasty!!
she was a successful and gorgeous young woman. Some media are saying that she was going through a separation and who knows what other emotional turmoil she was going through and she did not see any other solution.
And the location and the moment? Maybe that is when she seemed at the lowest,that what she seen like a less painful way.
She died doing what she loved to do!
Leave her rest in peace!
It’s interesting to compare this to that suicide documentary about the bridge jumpers on the Golden Gate? The one where they said after they jumped they realised that all their problems were solvable, apart from the fact they jumped… this woman had all the time in the world to change her mind.
Unimaginable.
She had like 30 seconds of falling where she didn’t panic and change her mind and pull the chord.
RIP.
Yes indeed defo not considering anyone. However, It just occurred to me that if you wanted to jump to die but weren’t 100% sure and felt you might change your mind last second before you hit which would be too late like jumping off a building, then this would be the very best option because it actually gives you a lot of time to change your mind if you were ever going to before you hit.
Remind to The Mirror making money out of her suicide: thousands of ugly people killed themselves today in the UK and they won’t make the news.
Respect, if you are going to do it, might as well do it doing the thing you enjoy most.
If you’re going to off yourself, at least do it in a way that doesn’t mean some poor bastard is going to have to scrape you off the tarmac with a plastering trowel.
“I can see no good in taking your own life
When any moment death calls”
Fuck me, we got stuck on the A19 just after she hit. Absolutely tragic
Sad for her family and friends and upsetting that she chose to traumatise others in the way it was done.
Suicidal thoughts are like treading water – if you can’t find something to hold on to at some point treating water becomes torture – you don’t think rationally about who you leave behind or who might find your body, you are caught in the torture of treating water – cramps, the water, the sun beating down on you. Rational thought and guilty tripping into staying because dying is “selfish” is a muscle memory at best at some point until you can’t find the energy and will to hold on any longer.