I’m no doctor or physicist, but a headfirst fall onto concrete from that height sounds all but guaranteed to be fatal.
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But did the latter land on their heads? 
What if you fall into an enormous vat of warm marshmallow fluff? Need answer fast.
Aww, c’mon, it’s her one & only post here. :rolleyes:
How warm are we talking here? Is it too late to switch to a stiff meringue?
I’ve seen the LD50, the point where 50% die, listed as anything from 30 to 50 feet, depending on what you’re landing on and how you fall. Regardless, the LD90, where 90% die, seems to be around 80 feet.
Falling 36 feet head-first onto concrete? I’d give about a 50% chance of dying and a much higher chance of having lasting disability.
From the FAQ, conflicting answers:
It’s winter. Where are you getting warm marshmallow fluff from?
I will caution the OP on the danger of mixing units on a homework problem, and suggest that she sticks with SI units.
You just gotta cross the streams.
I’m not going to answer your homework question of ‘Will you die’ but, IF you survive, a likely outcome would be acquired brain injury. It does not heal.
With surgery and rehabilitation and time you might regain the physical ability to pat your dog, or wipe your bum or pick up a sandwich and navigate it to your mouth, but you may never regain the mental capacity to handle such complex tasks ever again. As someone said upstream, you might wish you’d died.
Emma,
You may have gathered that questions on this forum have to be very carefully phrased to elicit the answer you want. I am puzzled about what kind of homework it is that would frame such a vague question.
I would answer by saying “probably”.
I had second thoughts about this. If we assume a 100kg man, then the fall would be exactly the same as hitting him on the head with a 100kg rock. I am thinking that you are supposed to calculate how fast he (or the rock) would be travelling at the point of impact and then (somehow) to compute the likely damage to his skull. I am raising my former answer to “almost certainly”.
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A dude at my work fell from a height (20ft or so) onto pavement, head first, and everyone was shocked that he survived. He was seriously, seriously hurt, and took a long time to get back. He’s still affected by the injuries, speech and motor functions aren’t 100%, but he’s able to do a desk job.
Add another 16 feet to the drop… I’m not liking someone’s chances.
In the fire service a person dropping/falling from 30 ft or higher is considered a high fall or some term like that. I would have personally considered a ‘high fall’ much less then that, but that’s what they set at the limit for a high fall/fall. This was taken as extent of injury to be expected. And yes what they landed on would make a huge difference.
Very easily. People fall from far less of a height and die because of head trauma.
In a prior threadthe sadly inactive gabriela cited an unpublished study that an attending physician in a Brooklyn hospital did showing that four floors had an LD-50 and six floors had an LD-95. This concurs with the Hemlock Society report that six floors is enough to reliably kill, but that ten floors is recommended to kill quickly.
It’s not the fall that will kill you. It’s the sudden stop when you hit the ground.