Are people attracted to the Golden Gate bridge in CA to commit suicide, because !


Question:

Are people attracted to the Golden Gate bridge in CA to commit suicide, because they feel it will be painless?

A dvd was released today called "The Bridge", which is based on the history of suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge. Out of curiosity, I checked out wikipedia.org, and read that the 220 foot fall takes 4 seconds, and jumpers hit the water at 75 miles per hour. I'm guessing most never feel a thing and they die on impact. Is that the attraction, or do you think there are other reasons? If so, what could those reasons be? I didn't realize that many people committed suicide there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/golden_gate...


Answers:

I think that people commit suicide in many places, but we hear of the "attractive ones." That said, I don't know from what you state, or from Wikipedia, how many more suicides occur in that area of this country than in other areas.
I do know this:
1. San Francisco and the East Bay are highly populated areas.
2. There is a very high % of people in the gay, lesbian and trans communities, and I think that before gay pride, and even with gay pride, the lives of many inhabitants must be very difficult in a still very homophobic country.
3. The weather may be a factor for suicides there. As Mark Twain said, "The coldest winter I've ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Although beautiful, it has a damp cold that gets to one--it got to me, and I've lived in much "colder" places--but they didn't feel so cold, as there. It also rains a great deal, and the fog is thick in many places every day, until noon or thereabouts.
4. The bridge is romantic, readily accessible.
5. It seems like a stage. It seems that the whole world will be a witness to these suicides.
Fact: 90% of people who jump off the GG bridge do so facing the city side. It, perhaps, attracts lonely people who want to be remembered in death, need to be seen, feel marginalized, left out.
6. San Francisco is a big, beautiful but, to me, somewhat directionless city, touristy, not rooted, but for the very few "blue-bloods" who've been there for generations.
7. There are large populations of very poor, living near the very rich; the difference is almost violent.

YOUR QUESTION:
I don't know how much the PAIN or lack of it is a factor. I can only imagine that it is, that the suicide is final, no going back, and quick and over.




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