Kills
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Under Newtonian physics, this is nonsense: you still decelerate from terminal velocity to a dead stop in less than a second, and it is the sudden deceleration of that stop that kills.
Source: Not the Fall That Kills You - Another was created when Jason Todd was killed; in this Alternate Universe, Batman kills the Joker, and figures, why stop there?
Source: Papa Wolf / Comic Books -
Schlock Mercenary postulates that it's not even the sudden stop that kills you, but the fact that part of your body has stopped while the rest is still going, resulting in your body crushing itself.
Source: Not the Fall That Kills You
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