Something I forgot to mention when writing about the death of Nigel Pargetter in The Archers: do people really scream when they fall, especially when it is unexpected & accidental rather than intentional? I think I have read somewhere that they do not – something to do with air pressure constricting the lungs.
Certainly the man did not scream in the only such incident that I was ever anywhere close to; he fell 19 floors into the car park below. The office nurse who had been called to see if there was anything she could do was just coming back into the building as I went out – I hope I never have to feel how she looked.
