[Venturer]

I spent 25 years fighting fire, and I can tell you this was no suicide.

When that heat gets behind you, you go. You do not make that decision it is made for you.

[Cicero]

Thank you. I was going to say the same. With unbearable heat at your back, it ceases to be voluntary, and therefore should not be considered suicide.

Suicide is a deliberate act. It’s very, very doubtful that he deliberately CHOSE to jump. He was driven out of the building by the flames behind him.

[TalBlack]

When that heat gets behind you, you go. You do not make that decision it is made for you.

Yep. In fact at the point that the heat becomes lethal jumping extends life. Jumping is also potentially less deadly than the flames since men have fallen literally miles and lived to tell about it.

[jmacusa]

The horrifying clarity of what you posted hit me squarely between the eyes. God only knows the panic and the terror of those poor souls. God only knows. And you too. Thank you. God Bless their eternal souls.