DISQUS

Bears Necessity: The Gateway to the Pacific, Behind Bars

  • pkh · 2 years ago
    Dr. Richard Seiden, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the leading researcher on suicide at the bridge, has written that studies reveal “a commonly held attitude that romanticizes suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge in such terms as aesthetically pleasing and beautiful, while regarding a Bay Bridge suicide as tacky.”"

    It is too bad that Dr. Seiden spent so much time in the class room and so little time in the practical realities of life.

    People jump from the Golden Gate not because of romance - but because of desperation. They choose the Golden Gate Bridge not because it is less tacky but because it has easy access and pedestrian walkways.

    No other Bridge in the Bay Area has pedestrian walkways. No access no deaths.

    The Directorate of the Golden Gate has managed to keep the public in the dark for over 70 years ! Only now because of the internet can the story get out -

    Not only that but the GG Bridge is bankrupt - the real reason that nothing is being done to end the deaths.

    People open your eyes - and do just a little research before you opine as to the deaths at the Golden Gate Bridge which by the way have now climbed to one a week - yes one a week and over 2,000 to date that we know of...the research and studies are unanimous - if a person is prevented from suicide 98% yes 98% never try again.

    I wish the Doctor and the rest of those that spend their time talking about death on the Bridge would do less talking and more action.

    While they are talking and philosophizing one person leaps off the Bridge every week.

    I am a native of San Francisco and I am horrified at the inability of citizens to understand that this one mile stretch of road is killing one person and devastating their families forever while people like the good doctor write about romance others advance their sophomoric take on death at the Golden Gate.

    Open your eyes and look - this is a real tragedy and if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

    Just imagine the uproar if someone were to throw a poodle off the Golden Gate once a week ...


    RAISE THE RAILS END THE DEATHS
  • Avinash · 2 years ago
    Ugh. You know what else people have easy access to? Knives. Guns. Tall buildings to jump off of. Bleach. There are a million ways to kill yourself, and we can't police everyone.

    I suppose you want everyone to live behind gated walls. Someone who wants to commit suicide is unlikely to be deterred and will just jump off a cliff instead.