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>>or was he so afraid to experience the end?

What an odd statement. Who the hell want's to burn to death? Having worked in a burn ward, I can tell you it's utter hell to die from burning.

Maybe the smoke may have killed people, but remember that smoke is also about 1000 degrees, so you burn from the inside.

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

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.