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	Delmarva Highways :: Suicide Bridge (Secretary, MD)
		The current bridge that crosses Cabin Creek, and has the name of "Suicide Bridge", was constructed in 1967, and is scheduled to be closed January 3, 2005 for demolition and replacement.
		It is a timber bridge, with pilings and the road deck constructed of wood.
		The old span was demolished in stages as the new bridge was being constructed.
	www.delmarvahighways.com /suicidebridge.htm (683 words)

	Suicide bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To reach such locations, those with the intention to commit suicide must often walk long-distances to reach the point where they finally decide to jump, which many skeptics argue is proof that this means of suicide is indeed premeditated.
		While this may not make utilitarian sense, it is consistent with hypotheses that people considering suicide may sometimes choose a specific scenario for their suicide rather than suicide by any comparable method per se.
		The Sydney Harbour Bridge, Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal, and the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California are other bridges that had formerly had unobstructed panoramic views that have seen barriers erected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide_bridge (514 words)

	Where Are They Now
		The true number of persons who have leaped to their deaths from this bridge is even higher since darkness, rain, fog, and a swift ocean bound current may have concealed from us more than 200 additional suicides.
		One way to test the unverified assumption that persons frustrated from suicide on the bridge would simply and inexorably go someplace else to commit the act is to follow the subjects who were restrained at the bridge.
		Although attempted suicide is not a crime in California, a person can be restrained for as much as 72 hours for observation if he or she is considered to be a danger to himself/herself or others.
	members.tripod.com /cfasggb/Suicide/Where_Are_They_Now.htm (3196 words)

	Suicide Bridge Restaurant - The Legends of Suicide Bridge
		Another man, born and raised within a half of a mile of the bridge, moved away for many years, came back, parked his car by the foot of the bridge and shot himself.
		In a more recent incident, Dave Nickerson, who lives across the creek next to the bridge, was awakened one morning by calls of "Help help." Seeing a car parked on the bridge, he immediately jumped into his skiff and zoomed to where calls were coming from.
		Nickerson immediately took her ashore, ran to her car, which was running and parked on the bridge and drove to the skiff.
	www.suicidebridge.com /legend.html (478 words)

	Morbidly Hollywood - The Colorado Street Suicide Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		One of the most famous suicide attempts occurred on May 1, 1937, when a despondent mother threw her little baby girl over the railing and then jumped over herself.
		The "Suicide Bridge" underwent a $27 million renovation in 1993, which included the installation of suicide prevention rails and spikes.
		The bridge is known locally as Suicide Bridge because of the large number of people who have jumped from it to their death.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /shorttakes/suicidebridge.htm (655 words)

	Golden Gate Bridge suicide barriers can be both effective and esthetic
		The second is a re-analysis of suicides on the bridge and of anti-suicide measures instituted in other cities in the U.S. and abroad, which shows that barriers and other measures can definitely reduce the number of suicides.
		On the 60th anniversary today (5/27) of the Golden Gate Bridge, the coalition is urging the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District to commit to the idea of building a barrier that would stop the current toll of suicides.
		The bridge district recently commissioned a barrier design and a prototype is in the works to be used in wind-tunnel and scaling tests.
	suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /goldgate.html (1178 words)

	Cleveland - News - Suicide Bridge - clevescene.com
		A narrow, one-way passage on the edge of a steep hill, East Lods Street is tucked between the bustle of downtown and the Italian restaurants of North Hill.
		The bridge protects Shreve and her neighbors from the scorching sun and the harsh winter snow.
		when i drove across that bridge for the first time whne i had to go to st. thomas to see a dr for an unltra sound on my prgenancy, i had this feeling that the bridge had a lot of sadness.
	www.clevescene.com /2005-06-08/news/suicide-bridge (1496 words)

	S.F. bridge needs suicide barrier, experts advise \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		SAN FRANCISCO – A suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would deter suicides, leading many despondent people to seek help instead of plunging to their deaths, experts say.
		And at least 87 percent of people who have jumped to their deaths from the bridge are from the Bay Area, dispelling the notion people travel from around the world to die here, the newspaper reported.
		Golden Gate Bridge district directors voted in March to authorize a $2 million feasibility study for a bridge suicide barrier, which hasn't been funded.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051031/news_1n31barrier.html (430 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content
		Support a Suicide Barrier.” He gave up a few years ago, stunned that in an area as famously liberal as San Francisco, where you can always find a constituency for the view that pets should be citizens or that poison oak has a right to exist, there was so little empathy for the depressed.
		The site notes that many suicide methods are ineffective (poison is fatal only fifteen per cent of the time, drug overdose twelve per cent, and wrist cutting a mere five per cent) and therefore recommends bridges, noting that “jumps from higher than.
		In 1953, a bridge supervisor named Mervin Lewis rejected an early proposal for a barrier by saying it was preferable that suicides jump into the Bay than dive off a building “and maybe kill somebody else.” (It’s a public-safety issue.) Although this belief makes intuitive sense, it is demonstrably untrue.
	newyorker.com /fact/content/?031013fa_fact (4553 words)

	Suicide Reference Library
		Last week, the Federal Bridge Corporation, which is responsible for the Jacques Cartier Bridge, refused to give barriers the go-ahead, and an official said Toronto's experience was a factor.
		Among Quebec men aged 15 to 39, suicide is the leading cause of death.
		The officials received a feasibility study this summer saying barriers would probably prevent suicides; they ordered another report, released last week, saying that it was impossible to prove "beyond a doubt" that barriers move the problem elsewhere.
	www.suicidereferencelibrary.com /test4~id~1380.php (938 words)

	Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Barrier-Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California
		Suicide is a time-limited acute response to severe pain, hurt or stress.
		Suicide from the bridge is not a volitional act.
		Bridge suicides are not simply the mentally ill, who certainly deserve our concern as well.
	www.pfnc.org /bridge/index.aspx (1079 words)

	Suicidal Attraction of the Golden Gate Bridge: Archetypal Gateway to the Other Side
		While it may be true that some of the suicides are the result of lost innocence and disappointment, it still does not explain the numerous stories of those who came from around the world for the sole purpose of ending their life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Courts have even been known to punish the survivors of suicide by confiscating the possessions of the deceased, who were of course conveniently not able to stand trial.
		With the exception of a few instances such as assisted suicide, it is virtually impossible to support the intentions of a suicidal person, which merely reinforces their need to act alone.
	www.mythicarts.com /writing/Golden_Gate_Bridge.htm (2643 words)

	WSDOT - Other Interests - Aurora Bridge Suicide Prevention Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		However itâs important that we carefully consider any suicide prevention measure to be sure that it will be effective, to avoid unintended negative consequences and to comply with regulations and laws.
		Because the bridge is very high above ground and water, the crews use an under bridge inspection truck to get close enough to inspect the underside of the bridge.
		Bridge inspectors climb into a bucket attached to an arm on the truck.
	www.wsdot.wa.gov /Projects/SR99/AuroraBridgeSuicidePrevention/OtherInterests.htm (481 words)

	Federal Bridge Corporation Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Federal Bridge Corporation Limited (FBCL) is today releasing the results of an independent feasibility study on the installation of suicide barriers on the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
		The article reports that the installation of suicide barriers has only lead to the migration to other structures in the Don Valley and has not resulted in reducing the number of suicides.
		In closing, the Corporation hopes that publicity relating the Jacques Cartier Bridge with suicide will diminish soon, as such publicity appears to have contributed in large part to an increased number of attempts over the past two years.
	federalbridge.ca /text/pr-Oct08_2003-e.html (578 words)

	The Official Web Site of Suicide Prevention for the Golden Gate Bridge
		The Golden Gate Bridge, situated at the point where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean, is a leading tourist attraction.
		Shneidman (1963) discussed 25 suicides, which occurred through leaps from the windows of a single general hospital in the period 1955-1961.
		Compared to the general population, a greater proportion is likely to die from violent, that is, accidental, suicidal, and homicidal modes of death.
	www.goldengatecitizens.com /suicide/info_where.htm (3294 words)

	SuicideGirls > News > Culture > Movie Preview : An Unflinching Look at Suicide from "The Bridge"
		Opening this Friday in select theaters is a controversial new documentary, The Bridge - a film showing 23 of the 24 suicides that took place at San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in the year 2004.
		Steel has been accused of serving up suicide as entertainment, misleading the city about his project to gain filming access and callously using the lives of the jumpers for his own gain.
		I sincerely doubt anyone was ever just in their car driving along the bridge and decided to stop and jump and end their life.
	suicidegirls.com /news/6405395 (1453 words)

	WSDOT - Project - SR 99 - Aurora Bridge Suicide Prevention Project
		While thereâs no way to prevent every suicide attempt, local mental health experts have recommended that we install suicide deterrence signs accompanied by phones to connect people directly to a suicide hotline.
		Environmental documentation was not required for the city to install suicide prevention signs and telephones on the bridge.
		Any solution proposed to prevent suicides from the Aurora Bridge would need to comply with federal and state historic preservation laws.
	www.wsdot.wa.gov /Projects/SR99/AuroraBridgeSuicidePrevention/Default.htm (986 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Suicide Bridge
		Sinclair's treatment of place is more abstract in Suicide Bridge than in Lud Heat insofar as it is less explicitly autobiographical and less grounded in everyday work activities such as parks gardening.
		Nonetheless the opening essay of Suicide Bridge, “Intimate Associations: Myth and Place”, can profitably be read as a description of Sinclair's own later practice of investigating a place and its myths.
		Melville is one who began it.” Like Olson's Melville, Sinclair in Suicide Bridge is a “beginner – and interested in beginnings.” At one point in the text the “suicide bridge” is described in Kerouacian terms as “that place which you have dreamt, long before birth”.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10512 (564 words)

	Shreve asks: Why don't they go to their own neighborhood and jump? \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Other bridges with the "Suicide Bridge" sobriquet include this one in Pasadena and this one in China.
		Partially as a result of that revelation, bridge officials are now seriously looking into erecting suicide barriers for the first time in the bridge's history.
		This article has pictures of the help-line phones that are at either end of the bridge as a last attempt to counsel would-be jumpers.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/43707 (2083 words)

	Illusions » Suicide Bridge
		I’ve been reading this fascinating series in our local newspaper called Lethal Beauty, and it focuses heavily on the people who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge toward their deaths and the reasons that spurred them to end their lives.
		Many of their families didn’t even know that they were depressed or even suicidal until it was too late, and that’s a shame.
		I’ve never had the desire to jump off the bridge myself, but I understand how lonely those people felt and why it was necessary to end their lives.
	myillusion.net /illusions/?p=148 (205 words)

	Suicide Bridge in Pasadena, California
		Within a decade of its construction, locals had begun to call it the “Suicide Bridge,” and as you can imagine, legends began to abound that the bridge was haunted be those unfortunate souls.
		The beautiful concrete bridge spans 1,467 feet across the Arroyo Seco, a deeply cut canyon linking the San Gabriel Mountains to the Los Angeles River, and containing the intermittent Arroyo Seco Stream for which it is named.
		Allegedly, when one of the bridge workers toppled over the side and plunged headfirst into a vat of wet concrete, his co-workers assumed he could not be saved in time and left his body in the quick-drying cement.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /ca-suicidebridge.html (736 words)

	‘Suicide bridge’ hurts workers’ mental health - Mental Health - MSNBC.com
		Thirty-nine people over the past decade have committed suicide off the 155-foot-high Aurora Bridge — eight in 2006 alone — and counselors are regularly brought in to help office workers deal with the shock of seeing the leap or the bloody aftermath.
		The “suicide bridge,” as the half-mile span has been occasionally called since it was built in 1931, carries as many as 45,000 vehicles a day on one of the main north-south highways through Seattle, passing over a narrow channel connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union.
		The neighborhood beneath the bridge used to be docks and warehouses, and the suicides went largely unnoticed.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/16829300/wid/11915773 (681 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| China's suicide bridge sentinel
		A bridge in eastern China that had become a notorious suicide spot has seen a dramatic reduction of deaths in the last year, after one man began voluntarily patrolling it.
		The Nanjing Bridge over the Yangtze has become a national symbol since its completion in 1968, but it has also become associated with lost hope and despair.
		Mr Chen said that physically being on the bridge and therefore able to spot these sorts of details made all the difference.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4149229.stm (725 words)

	SFGate: Lethal Beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		No easy death: Suicide by bridge is gruesome, and death is almost certain.
		In February, directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District voted in favor of a $2 million study, so long as bridge district funds are not used to pay for it.
		The cost of the suicide barrier is unknown, but estimates range from $15 million to $25 million.
	www.sfgate.com /lethalbeauty (923 words)

	Paranormal News Magazine: Dog Suicide Bridge Documentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Overtoun Bridge, the bridge that apparently lures dogs to their deaths, (see our previous article here), will be the subject of a 60-minute television documentary which will investigate theories as to why so many dogs have lept from the bridge to their deaths below.
		The film producers are also soliciting any information pertaining to the bridge from dog owners who have had a pet die or injured as a result of visiting the mysterious bridge.
		While the producers do not believe that the dogs commit suicide from the bridge, they are not ruling out paranormal explanations.
	www.paranormalmagazine.com /2005/10/dog-suicide-bridge-documentary.html (236 words)

	About The Joy of Life: SF butch adventure & history of Golden Gate Bridge suicide
		Her narrative of self-discovery resonates with her discovery of the city of San Francisco and leads into an in-depth documentary reflection on the history of suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge.
		This section explores the original bridge design (once described as “suicide-proof”), the phenomenon of suicide landmarks, and the decades-long debate over possible construction of a suicide barrier on this, the number one suicide landmark in the world.
		Composed primarily of wide, static shots of the San Francisco landscape, the film is contemplative, sensual, cinematic and spacious.
	www.joyoflifemovie.com /aboutthefilm.html (578 words)

	Jason Scott \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Filmmaker Eric Steel applied for a permit to film the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco for a year, saying he was trying to "capture the grandeur" of the bridge.
		He is now working on a feature-length documentary about these suicides, and has 100 hours of interviews with family members, psychiatrists, and some of the people who attempted suicide but didn't follow through.
		When I was younger, the suicide statistics used to be announced on the news, but they decided that was maybe too encouraging so they stopped.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/39234 (2278 words)

	Suicide Bridge - Iain Sinclair
		Suicide Bridge is described in the companion volume to this collection, Lud Heat, as the place "where the Krays offered their weapons to the water after the mutilation and death of Jack the Hat." Decades later Sinclair will revisit the murder, with his character Norton, in Slow Chocolate Autopsy.
		Suicide Bridge offers a pleasant surprise in not focussing so completely on his chosen locale and in creating new characters, even if they only be composites or representations of the usual suspects.
		Suicide Bridge is a challenge, like all his books.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sinclairi/suicide.htm (454 words)

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