The guy who jumped was wrong. It’s that simple to me. The line in the article that shows it to me is this one.

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he became offended by one of them using profanity. Poulson, who recently returned from an LDS mission, threatened to get out of the truck if he continued.
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I have read elsewhere comments that he died for his beliefs. Wrong. He died trying to get other people to follow and live by his beliefs. His “threat” to jump was a form of coercion. His bluff was called. He died for his beliefs yes, but he died trying to force others to follow them also. That’s wrong.

What you said was correct

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If you find yourself in an unwholesome environment, just up and leave
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The thing is your Sunday school teacher never said “Get up and leave if they don’t do what you command”

Maybe he had not decompressed from the mission, but he attempted to make them jump to his rules. He failed, and died.

He had a whole life in front of him and yet he jumped because he failed to force them to do as he wanted. Dumb dumb dumb.

But it’s really hard to call someone dumb that was just killed.

I’m so sorry for the family of this boy. Such a tragedy.

I read in the story there was an argument, could this argument have escalated by oversensitive RM condemming his companions, resulting in a little push?

Could the companions ” i told him to jump” have been a little threatening perhaps, and MR Poulson jumped to “save” himself.

Could the RM have been half joking about his desire to jump and then have fallen?

Could he have made the ultimatum with out any intent to do so, and then, being dared to do so, thought it might be a funny/exciting thing to do?

Extreme perhaps, but it seems unlikely that the KSL article has all the details.

Maybe a pause for the deceased before we rush to judge too harshly.