9/11 The Man Who Fell
 

On channel 4 now. Moving, disturbing, yet incredibly interesting.

One cant begin to imagine the emotions which are going through their minds before they make that decision.. but my god... i wouldnt wish that upon anyone. Not even Osama himself. To make that decision is just completely indescribable.

The debate is whether the Morning Call paper should have run the picture of a man falling.

There are arguments for and against the running of the picture....

Edited by BigApe. I don't think we actually need the picture to make a comment. If you want to see it, google it.

Discuss.....

Totally agree with you, to make that decision to jump just freaks me out.... Obviously knew he had no way out

Interesting programme

Its kinda freaked me out though. Absolute desperation where suicide is an easy way out? Sleep tight!!!!

I suppose faced with a slow, panic filled death in a burning room with no possible rescue is more terrifying than breaking the glass and jumping, knowing it will be over soon.

Either way, a tragic end. :(

Re: 9/11 The Man Who Fell
 

With that train of thought....was an image needed here also? :?: Depends on your point of view . Some would say it illustrates a point and gets across a message others would find it a disgrace.

Re: 9/11 The Man Who Fell
 

There we many pictures taken of people falling on that day. Only this one is called the Falling Man. This picture, is the one which appeared on papers across the globe on the mornings of 12th September 2001.

I posted it so show the particular image in question.

GYKD, I've edited your initial post.

No worries Our Kid. Guess some people might have found it disturbing.

I suppose for me it depends mainly on one thing.

Does the family of the guy know its him? If they can ID him, then... I would say it is 100% their choice whether or not the paper has the right to publish the photo.

Otherwise, the image represents all the people who jumped.
Then, you have to consider whether it is tasteful to publish the image or not.

Why would you publish it? Because, it happened, and its a bad thing, and you want people to see the bad thing.
Its also a very powerful image.

Why not? Because we all know it happened. We dont really need to be reminded of it. It is disturbing.

Difficult call. Not sure where I stand, providing the family cannot id the guy.


I would be leaning against.

There were many disturbing images beamed around the world on 9/11 and the days shortly afterwards. Personally I am thank full that I did not see first hand some of the terrible carnage and mutilation of so many innocent people.
The planes hitting the towers was for me almost surreal, it appeared more like graphics from a computer game than something that could actually happen to a massive building and a large commercial airliner.

But those jumpers? Oh my that was horrible to witness. Not all made the decision for themselves,as they stumbled in inferno like rooms filled with smoke they simply fell. But there are those that evidently chose the nature of their own demise and even attempted to take that 10 second ride to their own personal destruction by utilising a "graceful" leap. All of which soon turned to nothing due to the affect of the wind as their speed of decent increased.

This was worse to witness than that flicky grey footage of many years ago when an airship took off unexpectedly and a group of sailors held on to the tie ropes in an effort to bring it back down. Unfortunately several of them were carried up and away until their arms tired and they could not hold on anymore.

The curiosity to actually identify the man in the picture being discussed did actually create further pain and suffering for one particular family,who due to their religious beliefs did not want to believe that their family member would commit such a"sin". A terrible additional burden for them to deal with,which they were relieved of after some time when other evidence presented showed that it was not after all their loved one.

America in the aftermath following these events began to have a sense of guilt,at their collective voyeurism as they realised their clamour for information was on reflection nothing more than invasive and they had begun to ponder what many people would be going through, not only as the victims of the falls but the families of those people still unaccounted for. How would anyone feel watching the fall footage over and over again knowing that their husband,wife,brother etc. was still missing but was last seen on the 102nd floor of the WTC North?

Sometimes I do wonder about news coverage. Do we really need to see the graphic details? Does seeing people falling from such a height enrich any of our lives in anyway? I think not,report it by word or print but my thirst for information on events is not at all sated by having such dreadful images invade my home.

Sorry folks,a Little meandering...just my own opinion. :?