[qazwart]

Since the lift is falling at the same speed as you are, you'd find it pretty hard to jump. Bending your knees won't bring your body any closer to the floor, but would probably cause your legs to lift off the floor. You simply couldn't bend down to jump.

If somehow you did manage to propel yourself upwards (maybe pushing on the railing on the side), you'd have to be strong enough to be able to fling yourself several stories off the ground (Imagine being able to push yourself off a railing and jumping 6 to 12 meters in the air). If you could do that, you'd probably be Superman, so you would merely fly out of the falling lift, race downward at the speed of light and stop the lift from falling to the ground. Even better, you'd orbit backwards around the earth -- causing time to go backwards -- and post a note on the lift the day before that it's out of order.

[syhprum]

Sadly I read only today of an accident with a lift where an unfortunate woman was cut in half shortly after giving birth !

[Bored chemist]

Sadly I read only today of an accident with a lift where an unfortunate woman was cut in half shortly after giving birth !

Weird.
Any details?

[yor_on]

Maybe if the earth started falling too?
Oh wait, it's already in a free fall.
Yep, there's the solution, just remember to follow the spin

[Petrochemicals]

Yes but it would have to be a very narrow frame of factors, you use the same muscles to jump as to impact, only an impact take your brain time to react to , a jump would be a preemptive action, and i suppose you would be very narrowly horrifically injured rather than dead.

 If a sudden accel3ration (ala relativity provided by the base of the elevatior shaft) kills you , a jump of equal acceleration would also kill you. If humans could jump with such force as to out jump the elevator humans would have enough strength to acc3lerate there pelvis through there abdomen/or survive the crash, alot like an elevator crash. Thus this ability was rooted out by the darwin process.

That is unless we could jump slowly and for along time  defling gravitys pull, like  jet packs. Then when the lift stops moving you will be under acceleretion just the same as standing on the lift floor. Or accelerate over a ten year period to the top of a lift and juust as the lift strikes the floor accelerate at the maximum acceleration the body can withstand and hope you dont hit the floor too hard.

And superman is always swooping to save falling people, at the speed of a bullet, catches them like the man of steel he is and he doesnt even pull an arm off !

[hamdani yusuf]

...
A lot more people are injured on stairs than in lifts.

What about death per incident ratio?

[Monox D. I-Fly]

your probably wont die as much,

Can you only partially die, then?  []

Maybe the aftermath PTSD makes you dead inside?

[syhprum]

There is at least one recorded incident of a lift falling when a small aircraft crashed into the Empire state building I don't know if the Otis device was installed

[yor_on]

methinks that if one just jump good enough one might get into orbit. Be sure to adjust your trajectory though, and beware the roofs.

This theory I will name jumping frog disease :)

[Petrochemicals]

methinks that if one just jump good enough one might get into orbit. Be sure to adjust your trajectory though, and beware the roofs.

This theory I will name jumping frog disease

I think that has already been accounted for

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Frenchmen_of_Maine