Day to die?

[Andre]

Some are rightly destined to die on a particular day.

If I tell you tomorrow I am going to Paris as I have figured out how to jump off the top of the Eiffel Tower without the inconvenience of anything like a parachute, then rightly I am destined to die on March 8th 2013...

Franz Reichelt (1879–1912), a tailor, fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was his first ever attempt with the parachute and he had told the authorities in advance that he would test it first with a dummy.

He did .