[Arkinsaw]

I don't blame anybody who jumped to avoid death by fire, and I don't think God will either.

These people did not want to die. Many may have been in the position of certain death 100% or certain death 99.99999%. People HAVE lived miraculously falling from great heights in very rare instances. Taking the 99.999999% as rationalization to escape the 100% is not suicide. Many say that it must have been a hard decision. But it may have been the only decision that had even a .00000000001% chance of survival. Some may have jumped in the only tiny chance to live. We saw a few trying the fairly impossible task of climbing down the building face only to fall, not jump. The Pope was completely correct to state that it was not suicide.

[Reddy]

That is exactly what I was thinking. That perhaps the people took the only way out that had any hope- by jumping they thought they had a tiny, tiny chance to somehow survive. By staying, they had no chance.

Of course, as was pointed out by others, not everyone jumped, some fell, some were probably accidently pushed.

Oh gosh, it is so hard just typing this. :(