Why do you get the urge to jump?

DuploLicks · September 2023

Take up rock climbing or parkour for cool kids. At least climbing up let’s you savour the fear before you commit

BillDL · September 2023

Cranky · September 2023

Bezzer said:

Because everything is so relentlessly shit all the damn time that the blissful nothingness of eternity calls so very, very strongly.

Why am I the only one who’s LOL’d this?

TTony · September 2023

Paul_C said:

I have wondered what it would feel like to put my hand against the blade of my bandsaw - I still have all my fingers

So do I, although I also have a scar on the knuckle of my left index finger which is where contact was made.

To save you wondering any more - it hurts, and it's quite inconvenient day-to-day and a definite hindrance to guitar playing, whilst it heals.

idiotwindow · September 2023

Shrews said:

However two lads I worked with did. One cut his middle finger knuckle clean off. The second cut between third and fourth finger into the middle of his hand. Given the cold temperature both said they never felt anything until noticing the blood.

I nearly cut the top of my thumb off using a bandsaw at school in woodwork. I didn't feel it either but, fortunately, I was working quite slowly and noticed the blood before I'd gone too far.

Haych · September 2023

I don't get the urge to jump! I have the urge to stay away from the edge as much as possible to prevent an accidental fall, even if there is a safety rail in place. I couldn't even stand on the glass floor of the CN Tower!

I grew up living quite close to the Severn Bridge and quite often saw bunches of flowers taped to the rails where somebody had taken one last step to end their life. I often wondered what they must have thought and felt as they plummeted to their demise.

One guy survived, he stated that as soon as he stepped over the edge he regretted it and knew he didn't really want to die! I also know of one guy (son of my mum's friend) who fell from a gantry under the bridge while he was working. The whole gantry fell away, he was the only guy who tried to jump clear and the only guy on the gantry to survive!

No, jumping from a height is not the way I'd choose to go, it must be terrifying!

I used to work for the manufacturer of wind turbine towers so we used to get a bit of lowdown from our customers. The guys who have to work in the towers and especially at the top have to be trained to evacuate in the event of a fire.

They have clip on a constant rate descender that's attached to the nacelle and jump off! Even that must be terrifying and you know you're going to survive without injury!

ROOG · September 2023

The relief of not having to deal with life any more?

JAYJO · September 2023

I get it.
i always thought it was a kind of virtigo.
I feel the urge puling me towards the edge if i get too close.
it can be that strong the only way to stop the feeling would be to jump.
I sometimes feel drawn to the canal if i get too close to the edge. I feel i may as well just jump to stop the urge. its like a magnet. If i get too close to the edge my balance starts to go and i can end up crawling on my knees. Looking down from a great height makes me feel so sick, jumping would seem like the thing to do but i obviously dont want to do that.
I would be a top Paratrooper but a shit window cleaner.( unless i stuck to bungalows away from the waters edge)

blobb · September 2023

Lad at my school put his forearm through a band saw, it went into the bone. Said he never felt a thing. He just called the teacher over calmy while we all laughed. Funny old world eh?

CHRISB50 · September 2023

blobb said:

Lad at my school put his forearm through a band saw, it went into the bone. Said he never felt a thing. He just called the teacher over calmy while we all laughed. Funny old world eh?

I bet the teacher didn’t laugh

Brio · September 2023

Ask Gee...

hollywoodrox · September 2023

That is literally mountain biking

Dr_Necessiter · September 2023

Reverend said:

It's the call of the void

Weirdly enough (or maybe not) for me it's the other way around: I feel like there's a cosmic vaccuum cleaner sucking me towards that edge - it's something drawing me rather than me wanting to jump. I never get close enough to the edge to look over...

Bezzer · September 2023

Cranky said:

Bezzer said:

Because everything is so relentlessly shit all the damn time that the blissful nothingness of eternity calls so very, very strongly.

Why am I the only one who’s LOL’d this?

Because you are either lucky enough to think I was joking.
Or unlucky enough to realise I wasn’t.

CavemanGrogg · September 2023

Personally I blame Van Halen

TeleMaster · September 2023

ROOG said:

The relief of not having to deal with life any more?

@ROOG ;You okay mate?

ROOG · September 2023

Hi @Telemaster, good of you to ask, I guess the answer is 'Yes and No' like many of us I have my OK days and my bad days.
I am ashamed to admit that 'not being here anymore' would be one effective way to solve my issues. But what would such actions do to my family? I guess that guilt keeps me here and has done for most of my adult life. This seems mad to me.

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