- Some say Golden Gate suicide barriers would mar an icon, and people would find another way to end their lives. But families of suicides say they would save lives. - Some say Golden Gate suicide barriers would mar an icon, and people would find another way to end their lives. But families of suicides say they would save lives.So much for “The Right to Choose” what we can do with our bodies.
“We can’t leave a 4-foot rail on a 220-foot drop available to vulnerable people who are in pain and having a bad day or a bad week or a bad month,” said David Hull, a San Francisco librarian.”
The testosterone just oozes from this guy’s every pore....
Well, if barriers are built for the GG Bridge, won’t folks try to jump off the Oakland Bridge instead? Or does that one already have barriers?
You know, I could swear that, years ago, I read a story about a study of suicides off of the Brooklyn Bridge. As I recollect, the study reported that most people jumped from the side with the view of Manhattan(north up the East River).
Isn’t that odd?
So Hull is all the sudden an expert after his daughters death.......okie dokie then. If ya put up a no climb screen then someone set on killing themselves brings a ladder.....
Do more for SF’s safety if ya let the city council and their idiot mayor jump off that bridge.
If someone is so determined to end her life, what good will a four foot tall barrier do? Maybe if her family was a little concerned why she was suicidal instead of passing the buck to make it a political issue of building a barrier, she would still be around and in therapy.
May I suggest this, may I?
That seems pretty fixated for someone to fly thousands of miles from London to San Francisco to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
People don’t kill themselves, bridges do. Time to outlaw ‘em
Just wondering,....is it possible to actually survive the jump from that height?
The old cliche’ is that water is as hard as concrete from that height, but is it if you assumed a cannonball position of if you actually dove into the water in a perfect perpendicular and knife edge dive?
And forgive me if this is a stupid question, but could someone wise me up about the physics of such a thing. Thanks.
The fact that this low rail is available to all is a powerful symbol that we are responsible for ourselves and it is not the job of the state to mother us from cradle to grave.
The rail should be high enough to prevent accidental falls, and no higher.
This is easy. Electrify it. Then suicidal folks can just add one more thing to their unending list of failures & inadequacies, jump back in their car, and go see a counselor in the morning.
I’ve traversed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa many times but never paid attention to what measures,if any,the bridge contains to prevent suicides.
I’d be more concerned about preventing suicide bombers from exploding a truck bomb at a critical points on the bridge and bringing it down.
Keep those barriers off.
If people want to end it all, let them.
the coronado bridge in san diego has signs with suicide hotline information. when i drove across both the golden gate and the bay bridge a few days ago, i was surprised to see no signs.
seems to me that the golden gate bridge is attractive to potential jumpers because it is so iconic. make it impossible to jump, and i bet 80% of the poor potential jumpers make no other suicide attempts.
In my opinion, the reason somebody might want to jump off this bridge in particular is to make a statement. If this young woman just killed herself in a London flat, it’d probably go by un-noticed by anyone. Here, she gets to make a ‘statement’ that’ll be guaranteed to make the news. Some people are just looking for a way to say “Hey! Notice me!”. Problem is...with this method, they aren’t around to realize that anyone actually noticed.
I also think that, at least in this case, the young woman traveled all that way so that, possibly while on the way at some point, someone might actually try to stop her. Even for the deeply depressed and suicidal person, there is still a desire to want to live. A lot of suicidal people are looking for an excuse, a reason...ANY reason...not to go through with it.
As for some of the replies on this thread, it does sadden me that some here have the same attitude as Ebenezer Scrooge: “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”