Originally Posted by ricechickie

Well, you must know that I will argue this, even though it's being taken to such a ridiculous extreme......

But what if you jump off a 60 story window, and you DO have something to arrest your descent (after fifty feet) and you DO have something to soften your impact (say, a giant bubblewrap pillow), but you die midfall, then your premise is incorrect. Since you could die from the 60-story fall, even with the descent-arresting, and impact-softening mechanisms in place.

If it was simply the jump that would kill you, there wouldn't have been a need to add the qualifiers about your descent and your impact.