He knew the man was dead; the fall alone would have killed him.

It was little comfort to know that the fall would have killed a human.

But then if the fall had not killed him, the poison would have done so.

If a fall killed him, he'd be captured for sure.

The fall would crush his body and so kill him.

He could be carried high and dropped; any fall over five or six feet might kill him.

It'd be too much to hope that the fall would kill it.

The fall might not kill me, but I had no idea what lay at the bottom.

Such a fall would have killed any man who ever lived, and most likely anything else born of nature as well.

There's probably enough water down there so that the fall won't kill you.