Still smacks of voyeurism to me

Okay, let me see if I can help a bit here :) I really never thought about it much until I watched this documentary, but I think the jumpers need to be seen and not hidden away. When it was mentioned that the city mortician claimed that there were no jumpers, that people had been blown out of the buildings........well that just hit a wrong cord with me. This film made me look into myself and ask what would I do. Seriously, if something like this ever happened to me, I hope to have the courage to jump. But, I can't say for sure which I would choose in the end.

When that one family denied that the falling man could not be their father/husband because of their religious beliefs against suicide, well I couldn't agree with that at all. I see it as they chose how they wanted to die and their death was imminent anyway. I just don't see that as suicide.

I hope none of us have to experience anything like what these people went through, but I do know that I, for one, will never forget that day or those images.


"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon

This entire documentary was about this loathsome reporter and nothing else. It was disgusting the way this mental midget went about his half assed task, for no other reason than he wanted to report an angle.

No one in this country had a problem 'admitting' that jumpers existed, we all just showed some respect when it came to their moment of death...BY NOT MAKING IT OURS OR ABOUT US...unlike this awful human being who calls himself a reporter.

Nauseating.






It's a guaranteed disaster...like eating a burrito before sex.

I agree with all your points, but it's more about HOW this film goes about dealing with the subject. Yes, the subject may be distasteful to some, but I think the film treats it so pretty sensitively, presenting all viewpoints and emotions, and ending with a powerful thought given by a relative of the (possible) falling man himself.

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The reporters in this documentary , I’m finding quite insensitive. When the guy said ‘I like this photo’ I was appalled. I mean, I can see saying ‘this photo captures the tragedy of the day’ or something but to say ‘I like this photo’ sounds callous to me. Worse, was the bozo that was researching the story to find the falling man’s identity. He went to grieving families asking them to identify the person in the photo as one of their loved ones who just died tragically, THEN realized - oh wait there are more photos in the series, never mind it’s not your dad/husband. He couldn’t ask that question when he first thought of the assignment…like are there other photos with this guy before or after that were taken….he STARTED with a grieving family having a memorial service? UGH… Then he just moved on to another family.

I think the city mortician was just following a directive from someone higher up. I think that some might view the jumpers as giving up or committing suicide. I don’t but maybe some do. They were murdered just like everyone else that died on that day. Whether they were killed instantly, died on the way down the stairs during collapse, of smoke, fire, injury, were trapped or jumped, they were all killed by evil.

I don’t want to wipe them from the history of the day. It was a sad fact of a horrible, tragic day. But I can sort of understand the mindset that maybe the city worker thought they were sparing the family additional grief, because of religious beliefs or because it was just too tragic for them to face. No matter how they died, my heart breaks for the people that died that day and their family.

"Everyone wants to wipe them away", or whatever the idiots said in this documentary is just untrue. No one wants to do that, people just don't want exploit these poor people's deaths for gain the reporters in this video do.

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One might ask if this legendary photograph ever needed to be published:

http://time.com/3456028/the-most-beautiful-suicide-a-violent-death-an-immortal-photo/
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