Can a person die if they were to fall from a 6 story building?
Whether you get hurt from falling or not has a lot more to do with what you hit when you fall and how tough you are to begin with. There are elderly people who have died from a fall when just walking around, and I don’t think any of us would do well if we fell onto a bed of nails or something! Water has a really high surface tension, so past a certain height falling into water is a lot like hitting concrete, unless you enter it EXACTLY right. Likewise, there are people who have survived falls of thousands of feet relatively unharmed (by landing in soft snow), and we see stunt men fall six stories all the time, as long as they have nets or air cushions below them! So don’t worry about the 6-story building… worry about what’s on the ground when you get there. Remember – it’s not the fall the kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end!
