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But unless you've been in a very similar situation, you have no way of knowing what you might or might not actually do.

I know that if I was making a decision in a rational state of mind that I would not. I do not think pain and emotion should be a factor in making the decision. Now it's true that under such extreem circumstance I could become irrational, but being irrational is not something I understand or relate too very well, and it is not a certainty that I would become irrational either.

To make a choice to jump while in a rational state of mind requires you to assume that either there is no God to save you (something I know is false), or that God has no intention of saving you. It may be true that it's your time to die, but it might not be and you never know if you don't try, so for me, to give up and choose to jump without being irrational, is a rejection of my faith that I could not do.

I know that if I was making a decision in a rational state of mind that I would not. I do not think pain and emotion should be a factor in making the decision. Now it's true that under such extreem circumstance I could become irrational, but being irrational is not something I understand or relate too very well, and it is not a certainty that I would become irrational either.

LOL! You have no fricking idea of what it was like that day! I'd love to see just how cool and rational you'd be if an jumbo jet full of fuel crashed into the building where you work -- a few floors below you -- and the flames and smoke were so intense, as the fire was burning between 1000-2000 degrees and coming up fast on you.

It's obvious that you've never been in a life-threatening situation, let alone one of this magnitude. So please stop pretending that you know what you'd do. Nobody knows how they're going to react in a situation like this, but we just hope and pray that if it happens, we can make the right decisions and survive it.

To make a choice to jump while in a rational state of mind requires you to assume that either there is no God to save you (something I know is false), or that God has no intention of saving you. It may be true that it's your time to die, but it might not be and you never know if you don't try, so for me, to give up and choose to jump without being irrational, is a rejection of my faith that I could not do.

And why would God favor you over the 5000+ whom he did not save that morning? How arrogant. Even more arrogant than assuming that you'd be so calm and rational during that kind of crisis. It's painfully obvious that you've *never* been in any situation even remotely resembling what happened here on 9/11, so please stop trying to lord your self-perceived superiority over the rest of us mere mortals. Unless you're a trained rescue professional, I'd love to see just how rational you'd be in that kind of a situation.

What would you say to the man I watched hang from a window for nearly an hour before finally letting go? Or to the woman who stripped to her underwear and stood, in bare feet, on a shattered windowsill for fifteen minutes before she pushed off? Many hung on until there was no point.

Sometimes faith runs into a brick wall called reality.

Many there fought long and hard for their lives. Jumping was not an act of cowardice, but a exercise of choice of the means of their death.