And I respect them for having the guts to make the best of a horrendous situation and to end it on their terms"

I had never considered that these people were "ending it on their own terms". Obviously you never know until the situation occurs, but I think that if I was fifty floors up and surrounded by flames I would jump too. I wouldn't be jumping as a form of suicide or as a statement of any kind. I'd be jumping because given the options of being burned alive - dying in unbearable agony, or going for a million-to-one shot to survive the fall (and at the very least dying very quickly), I know which way I'd prefer.