http://mindhacks.com/2009/04/24/the-suicidal-attraction-of-the-golden-gate-bridge/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/04/24/the-suicidal-attraction-of-the-golden-gate-bridge/#comment-5773 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:11:43 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-suicidal-attraction-of-the-golden-gate-bridge/#comment-5773 I can really recommend “the Bridge” in all its morbid glory. It really gave me a new insight into the different mechanisms involved in suicidal people, and the interviews with the relatives of the jumpers are interesting.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/04/24/the-suicidal-attraction-of-the-golden-gate-bridge/#comment-5772 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:59:45 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-suicidal-attraction-of-the-golden-gate-bridge/#comment-5772 Vaughan
I should let you know that
1. the reason that no one jumps from the Bay Bridge is that there is
very little if any access.
2. Because the Golden Gate has unfettered access and low rails
( less that 4 feet – it attracts about four people a week trying to
kill themselves
3. Just about once every ten days someone is successful
4. About 3,000 have died at the Golden Gate – the Bridge
authorities will tell you oh no much less – but when you ask
they will admit that only if a body is found is is counted.
I hasten to add that the tides and sealife are plentiful
5. For seventy five years the Bridge has ignored all pleas to fix
the rails or reduce access.
So it is ironic that less than a mile a way a Bridge stands with no suicides while the Golden Gate is the suicide capital of the World

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