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People have survived some pretty crazy falls. Shit like falling from an airplane at terminal velocity and surviving by landing in a bush.
As a general rule, do not treat people as unsaveable unless you know what you're doing. Call an ambulance for "dead" people. Drag suicidal people from the edge kicking and screaming. Bury yourself in dirt when a wildfire overtakes your position. Tell people to hold on as long as they can through famine, disease, and disaster.
You would save her a couple seconds of panic at the cost of some chance of helping her hold on to over a billion seconds of her future. What are the odds she would survive if and only if she knows there's no rope? One in a million? One in a billion? Still worth it.
So, er, have you checked if you're passively suicidal? here's a nice scale. I would recommend you talk about it with a therapist or with friends at a 4 or above.
If she’s midair after having been thrown, there’s no chance for her to positively impact her situation. She could still survive, but she’s got a better chance if her body’s relaxed and not freaking the fuck out. If onlookers have noticed, she’s most likely midair. Of course if she’s still standing there, say something, but how are bystanders going to notice that she’s not attached before she’s left the platform?
If the rope were attached to her and not the platform, it would be possible to do something, but she was just tossed into a free fall
If it weren’t so genuine and consistent with the rest of your comment, I’d think you were concern trolling, because that’s a hell of a leap. I just didn’t start from the premise that her awareness of the situation increases her survival chances. I’m terrified of heights and I’d prefer to wake up with surprise injuries than wake up with injuries after experiencing blinding fear. Otherwise, I’d prefer to go out not seeing it coming, if the other option is spending my last few seconds in heart stopping terror. In an ideal world, I’d live long enough that people at my funeral make conversation with each other about what the world must have been like when I was born.
It’s pretty common to want to go out in a stress free situation.
I get what you're saying about the one in a million, one in a billion, doesn't matter still try, but specifically in this case I would think you're far more likely going to make her tense up which is a bad thing for falls and high intensity impacts.
So in this instance you've got a nine out of ten chance of making things worse, and a one in a million chance of making things better.
I still agree always try to help no matter how small the chance, but I don't think yelling about the rope is gonna help anyone here.