While the Golden Gate Bridge may have celebrated her 75th birthday on Memorial Day, a more somber remembrance was held yesterday evening to mark 75 years since the first suicide on the Bay Area's most recognizable landmark. According to suicide prevention groups, over 1,500 people have taken their own lives by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

It's also striking to note that the Bridge saw its first jumper barely more than two months after opening in May of 1937. While suicide prevention advocates and the Bridge Board approved a suicide prevention net way back in 2008, the project has yet to receive the funding it needs to move forward.

Back in 2009, when the suicide toll on the bridge numbered more than 1,200, the Chronicle printed an infographic mapping out the locations of all the suicides to date:

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via: San Francisco Chronicle