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Sunset on the Awaji Bridge

Every so often, I hear of people jumping off the Awaji bridge. Most recently, it was a police officer. It would never really occur to me to go out that way, simply because it seems stupid to me to die by jumping into water, unless you don't mind drowning if the fall doesn't kill you. In that sense, the Awaji Straits would be a good place to drown if you didn't want your body to be found, cause they are DEEP... You would end up as octopus bait or something. It always strikes me as funny when people say that when jumping from a great height, hitting the water is the same as hitting concrete. I tend to doubt this statement and would ask those people if they would rather land in water or on concrete from any given height, assuming they wanted to live. I would choose water any day. Of course, if you jump from the Awaji Bridge, there's a pretty good chance you'll land on the deck of a supertanker or car transport, seeing as it's one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world... Then again, you might land in the swimming pool of a cruise ship, so I guess it evens out. Posted by J@keitai at February 6, 2004 12:58 PM | TrackBack