Unfortunately, that they died before they hit is wishful thinking. There are any number of clips of people struggling, while falling, right up to the moment of impact. Sky divers, suicides, ejecting pilots, mountain climbers, people who just slipped, from high places.
The human fight to survive is universal and very stubborn.
A choice to die would be the only exception. How monstrously unfair it was would have enraged any who weren’t markedly saintly — and the rest wouldn’t jump.