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Originally Posted by 65MAX
If somebody is dead set on committing suicide (pun intended), they'll find a place to do it. Putting a 9' tall chain link fence on an historic bridge won't prevent anything. It'll just get displaced to another bridge.
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Thats not how it works. Most people are not "dead set" on committing suicide, and most suicides from bridges are, from what I have read, generally unplanned events. People who were restrained from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge rarely tried committing suicide again - something like 94% never attempted suicide again. This was according to a 1978 report by UC Berkeley.
What may be equally important in a situation like this where a bridge is starting to gain notoriety as a suicide jumping point is to prevent it from becoming famous in the first place. Notoriety will only draw more potential jumpers to it, like the Golden Gate or George Washington Memorial Bridge in Seattle.
People travel halfway across the country to jump off the Golden Gate bridge. As beautiful as those bridges are, how would you like to watch 4 people per day jump off and go SPLAT on the ground in front of your office?
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Originally Posted by bvpcvm
true, but isn't part of the issue simply that every time someone jumps the max gets delayed for a couple hours?
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I'd say so. The MAX would will start to become a very unreliable service if the jump rate keeps going up...
Hope this explanation helps bring light to some of the issues. Agreed that the chain link fence may not be ideal, but hopefully its just a stopgap measure. Maybe full height (9-12') plate glass would work.