it's such a sad movie but jack dyin did make the movie more real and maybe got people the actual reality of what happened that night if it made you cry or not this is what happened and it was just the end of a fine story

i dont think jack would have been dead for long
makes the thought alot more intense and so sad to the thought he could have been saved and lived on with rose for as long as possible

you are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO wrong!!!!!!!!!! jack made the film better not worse!!

i think it is very interesting as i read these replies well yes it would be sad every time i watch that part i cry myself aslep.









and a shooting star?
have to look back a check that out

Or, Jack could have just layed on top of her. lol.

Just a point to those who are saying if they had shared the board that would have both lived, that they were stupid and stuff like that because they didn't share the board, if you were in 28 degrees farenhite water and dying of hypothermia plus cold, wet, in great pain and practically dead would you be able to think straight enough to share the board. Also, another point, that when they first got in the water and were getting on the headboard he tried to get on but it almost flipped back on top of them. Plus it was already slightly under water with her on it(if only a couple centimeters at the most). With both of them I think it would not have stayed a float. Even more so, Jack says that when you're in the water you can't think of anything but the pain at the beginning of the movie, I wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't think of anything of pain and Jack only thinking of saving her. She had never been in that kind of condition before, when you're not expecting that type of pain it hits even harder and you can barely think.(Speaking from experience here.) Just my opinion of course though.

::EDIT:: P.S. I know that they didn't really exist.

Also, from what I've looked up, there was a Jack(Joseph) Dawson on the ship, he was a cook.

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I know that Emanuel. But were that last two posts before yours even about Jack? No! There were concerning hypothermia and water temperature, which were big contributing factors to many of Titanic's real deaths.

If this thread has any use, it is to clear up some questions about how people survived and died that night.

Ema here,

For the millionth time: Jack never dies! Jeesh. He is just a movie actor that makes movies look cool.

Your cool poster,
Emanuel

Quote:i had an excperiance like this ounce.

we we're going swimming and i jumped in the pool and the water was sooo cold. (probably 60 some degrees or above) but when i came up from under the water and i litterally couldn't breath. i fine though now.

For everyones' information, the water temperature that night was 28 degrees Fahrenheit.

They know this because the bridge watch has someone take the temperature every two hours and has it recorded into the ship's log.

Just to clear the matter, it usually takes longer than 3-4 minutes to die in that cold of water from hypothermia. Hypothermia in that temperature takes a little longer (anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, but not much more).

But another reason that some people may have died sooner is not from hypothermia, but actual suffication. When people are in an environment as cold as that water, they tend not to take normal deep breaths.

Sometimes, if a person gets so cold that they takes shallow breaths, they are not getting enough oxygen and therefore they pass out and die.