Jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge, or ANY bridge, is an ugly, horrible thing to do.Īgain, if you are suicidal, you MUST call a suicide hotline now and get help and you MUST see a doctor and get into therapy. And over 90% of people who die by suicide have a TREATABLE mental disorder at the time of their suicide.Ĭall a suicide hotline NOW if you are suicidal, and get help.
Untreated depression is the number one cause for suicide. Getting treatment, however, can help dissipate your suicidal feelings and help you find the CAUSE of the suicidal feelings.Īnd when you find the CAUSE, you can receive treatment. So for those who are suicidal and thinking about making a trip to San Francisco to jump, let me give you some heartfelt advice…Īcute suicidal feelings RARELY last a long time. I am very sorry to inform you that your daughter is dead…. Every second of it is horrible…terrifying, ugly, and sickening.Īnd that pain will be seemingly insignificant compared to the lifelong pain that the survivors will now endure.īy the way, sometimes the bodies are not even recovered, but when they are, what is left is a horrible sight.Īnd then the phone calls…Mrs. Hell no, there is nothing peaceful or pretty. The four-second, 250-foot plunge from the bridge to the water ends quickly and violently.īones shatter, ribs are snapped like they were twigs, internal organs are ruptured, blood gushes out of bodily orifices, and the body keeps going down, deeper and deeper, into the hellish water.įor those still alive, the plunge to the frigid water has decimated their body, but now they are so deep underwater that they drown. It is all physics after the fall begins, as gravity takes hold – the falling body quickly accelerates to some 75 miles per hour and then slams into the water like a truck smashing into a brick wall. It is horrible beyond the most terrifying nightmares that anyone could envision.Īnd there is no turning back after the jump. In August of 1937, Harold Wobber, a veteran of World War I, strolled along the pedestrian walkway on the Golden Gate Bridge, paused, looked at a stranger and said, “This is as far as I go.” He then jumped to his death.Īnd to the mentally ill individuals who go to the bridge, a jump to the water below seems like a peaceful way to end to their pain.īut it is anything but peaceful. It is appalling that the barrier was not put in place long ago, but arguments about aesthetics, bridge structure, and money have caused an endless morass to the blindingly obvious problem, which is this: The bridge is the equivalent of an easily-accessible, loaded handgun for countless suicidal individuals, and someone needs to take the damn gun away…and that is done by building a suicide barrier.īack in 1937, when the construction on the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, no one envisioned that it would become one of the major suicide sites in the world.īut the suicides began almost immediately. The rail is a mere 4-feet high, and thus virtually anyone can step over it in a second.Īnswer: Because Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer of the bridge, was five feet tall and he wanted to be able to see over the rail, and thus changed the original planned height from 5½ feet to 4 feet.īut regardless of the original height of the rail, why hasn’t a suicide barrier been built? That is, why haven’t they built a high fence that is very difficult, or next to impossible, to climb?Īnswer: There have been seven previous attempts at a suicide barrier, but the bridge bureaucracy precluded any of the plans from actually being implemented. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly easy to jump from the bridge. We lose one person about every other week to the waters below, as the bridge somehow holds an allure to people who are suicidal. She is one of some 1,300 individuals who have died by suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Later that day, Marissa jumped to her death from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Marissa Imrie was just 14 when she wrote those words as part of her suicide note. “Everyone is better off without this fat, disgusting, boring girl.” The Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge Suicides: Help Save Lives! Please Click Below: DonateĪ young man is talked out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Survivors Forum - Click for Info! is a 501c3 NON-PROFIT Organization and Website
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