As a teen, I jumped off bridges higher than 50 feet. There’s a huge difference between jumping 50 feet into water and falling 50 feet onto rock. Most 50 foot falls onto a hard surface are not survivable.
I know.
A family friend just suffered a loss of their father.
They had just spoken with him that morning. He was going out to clean leaves out of a the roof gutter. He always wore slippers around the house and on the ladder. Family insisted he wear shoes on the ladder. He put on shoes and climbed on the ladder leaning against the roof to clean out the leaves, with a friend assisting him. He asked the friend for a drink of water. Friend went into the kitchen to get some water, heard some noise, returned to find the father had fallen from the slipped ladder and had hit his head on a curb. Went into a coma, and died before his daughter could make it to the hospital.