suicide

Aurora Bridge Suicides

1. What's wrong with suicide anyway?  Really, I personally believe that people have the right to end their lives if they choose to.

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some thoughts

I haven't read the Seattle magazine article, so I can't comment on what's in there, but you mentioned that the Golden Gate bridge installed a "suicide proof rail virtually stopped the jumps." Maybe they meant another bridge, because the GG bridge doesn't have a suicide barrier. Someone jumps off the GG bridge about once every 15 days.

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Why stop at 365?

I wonder why we'd stop at 365 people, why not break it into 4 hour shifts, 4 or 5 of them a day.  Maybe 2 people, one for each side (east walk way and west walk way).

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Aurora Bridge 1939

Stop suicide jumps from Aurora Bridge

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Aurora Bridge
Seattle, WA, 98103
See map: Google Maps
It will take Seattle 2 years and $5M to put up a rail. You can stop it tomorrow, free, with other 365 people - 1 person a day to watch the bridge.
5 supporters

Well, I just have read an article about this in the SEATTLE magazine, and it frustrated the hell out of me - it will take the city 2 years to negotiate to finally build a rail, but in the meantime around 15 people will end their lives by jumping down. And they don't always jump into water, but also into the parking lots, on top of people's cars, etc.

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