She was living on the fourth floor of number 48 (third floor, 3te Stock, by German standards), threw bedding and some possessions down onto the street, and jumped out of the window of her apartment.[17][18][19] She fell on the sidewalk and was severely injured, dying shortly afterwards on her way to the Lazarus Hospital.[17][20] On 8 March 1989, Winfried Freudenberg became the last person to die in an attempt to escape from East Germany to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall by falling from a hot-air balloon.[21][22]