<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
Didn't see it.

Was it just the programme referring to the desperation to escape as suicide or was this an official line?
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I think some people in the programme were saying it was suicide because the people had chosen to jump. One family refused to believe that the falling man might have been their father committing suicide because they were very religious and that would mean he wouldn't go to heaven.

I don't believe suicide was the official line - the official line after the initial TV coverage on the 11th and then the newspaper reports on the 12th was not to show the footage/photos of the falling people ever again, and to concentrate on the heroism and bravery of everyone involved.