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White men, according to a recent report released by the Marin County Coroner, are more likely to take the final plunge off of the Golden Gate Bridge. The report is an update to go along with a 15-year study that covered 330 confirmed deaths since 1994. Of the deaths researched, here are some interesting, for lack of a better word, statistics:
- 80.3 percent were committed by white people
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45 percent were between the ages of 25 and 44 years old
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74 percent of the suicides were witnessed by people on the bridge
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80 percent of the suicide jumpers had "identifiable occupations" ("covering a full range of jobs and industries") and 8 percent were students
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Harold Wobber, a World War I veteran, was the first person to jump from the bridge on July 1937, two months after the bridge opened
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An estimated 1,300 people have committed suicide from the bridge since it opened
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18 recorded deaths so far in 2009
The report also strongly recommends a barrier on the bridge, a net, which could cost as much as much as $50 million to erect.
Also, if you think you want to kill yourself. Don't. At the very least, you'll miss lots of great TV. If you or a friend get a hankering to commit suicide, please contact Bay Area Suicide and Crisis Intervention Alliance first.They can help you. You can reach them at: Alameda County (800-309-2131), Contra Costa County (800-833-2900), Marin County (415-499-1100), San Francisco (415-781-0500), San Mateo County (650-579-0350).
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"The report also strongly recommends a barrier on the bridge, a net, which could cost as much as much as $50 million to erect."
Stupid waste of money. A jumper will find another way to commit suicide. I doubt the sight of a net will erase all of the problems that are leading the person to consider suicide.
Hey, at $50,000,000 the net would only cost $38,461 per jumper...
So white men CAN jump.
If you think you want to kill yourself. Don't. At the very least, you'll miss lots of great TV
No way do I jump before Season 6 of LOST.
I can see it now. A net to catch all of the crap that people think will be fun to throw over, associated costs of cleanup, monitoring and ongoing repair, yet it still doesn't stop people from climbing over/through the net to jump anyway.
A bridge doesn't make people commit suicide, suicidal people do.
Right idea, wrong target.
NaRF said.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-09/01/content_8642819.htm
I think butter is a lot cheaper than a net. And more delicious.
But I don't have a TV.
Go ahead and jump then.
"At the very least, you'll miss lots of great TV."
80.3 percent were committed by white people, I knew it the bridge is racist!!!
Da bridge, she no likey most men...
I heard that Catholics tend to jump from the ocean-facing side of the bridge and Protestants jump facing into the Bay. I hope that's true.
I used to say the same thing, that this would be a complete waste of money: for people that wanted to get it done will find a way. Then I read an article (I did a quick search and couldn't find it) about "tourist" suicide destinations where preventative measures were put up (some mountain in Japan and Empire State building come to mind) and suicide rates dropped of course. Good news for the loved ones of those that were saved, yes?
So you are depressed, having a crappy day, go for a walk on the Bridge, see the view, are overcome with emotion, and decide to jump off. Now you could do it. If the net were up, you couldn't. So you walk home, and maybe the next day is better. Saving a life is a small price to pay. Suicide sucks, some compassion for the victims and families thereof is due.
suicide rates dropped worldwide when they put prevention measures in place? that seems unlikely. i mean, you're talking about people traveling to these places to commit suicide, right? so wouldn't any suicide rate have to account for an area large enough to account for the place they came from? otherwise, they could have committed suicide somewhere else and just not made it into the stat.
It's so tiring to see the "they'll find a way to do it somehow" fallacy repeated over and over again. Suicide does have long-term causes, but tends to involve a very short-term inclination and motivation, and removing the means really does save lives. Some of the best evidence of this is the fact that almost all of the people who've survived jumping off the GGB have not gone on to commit suicide later (surprisingly, there have been quite a few survivors.)
This classic New Yorker article about the GGB explains all of this much better than I can: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/13/031013fa_fact?currentPage=all
Erect the net dudette's and dudes.....
I can ride by bike along and see if it will hold me moving at speed, as fast as I could get going....never done the bridge before, as I fall into the net.
Next stunt would be with the bike....
Whooootttt XXX it and survive dude's