A combination of cancer and melancholy over humanity’s destructive attitude towards nature led him to weigh down his body with diving weights and jump off of the side of a friend’s ship.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2023/09/21/ideas/the-buzzy-novel-whalefall-offers-a-modern-spin-on-the-ancient-book-of-jonah

A lot of people like to point towards the do-or-die attitude a lot of founders tend to have: “either this project succeeds, or I jump off a bridge.”

Source: https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-has-an-integrity-problem/

And so I'm going to jump off and let somebody ask some questions.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4572424-nve-corporation-nvec-q3-2023-earnings-call-transcript?source=feed_all_articles

Entertaining and perceptive, Shady Hollow is fast-paced and witty, with characters that jump off the page and a hugely satisfying mystery to solve’.

Source: https://www.obantimes.co.uk/2023/12/14/the-highland-bookshop-staff-reviews-for-christmas/

Here someone will be climbing up the cage to jump off while someone else is setting up a table on one side of the cage as two people are teaming up on someone else in the other ring, all while two other people fight in the area between the rings.

Source: https://comicbook.com/wwe/news/wwe-2k23-review-a-new-high-bar-for-the-series/

I’d hear a loud blast behind me and I’d jump off the road into the gravel, bushes, or whatever happened to be there.

Source: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/5550286/how-inverness-cyclist-jenny-graham-made-history-with-coffee-first-then-the-world/

K-9 officer Joseph Hartmann of the Charleston Police Department discusses on Feb. 27 his role in helping save a man who had threatened to jump off the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge days earlier.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/words-not-guns-talked-down-jumper-from-ravenel-bridge/article_aff72074-be93-11ed-9cc5-ab4a69ff0295.html

Scissor-tailed flycatchers jump off from their perches to catch flies, beetles or grasshoppers.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/bird-scissor-tailed-flycatcher-waterloo-region-cambridge-birding-1.6863976?cmp=rss

‘Sometimes you might walk down the street and think “I’m going to jump off this bridge into the water,” and my therapist said they’re the same.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/03/lucy-spraggan-on-joy-of-coming-out-and-friendship-with-simon-cowell-18863139/

Upon arrival, a police officer spoke to Mr. Palmeter, who said that he had planned “to climb the Bank of America tower and jump off of it.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/us/jacksonville-shooting-florida-hbcu.html

“We are the first to jump off the cliff.

Source: https://ctmirror.org/2023/12/23/public-universities-humanities-staff-cuts/

Whether toads think curmudgeonly thoughts, or have curmudgeonly feelings, it’s hard to say, and better not to panic and jump off in wild speculative directions.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/10/11/backyard-naturalist-toad-psychology/