Decrease in Golden Gate Bridge suicide jumps likely a result of prevention barrier

[Coventina]

SAN FRANCISCO — The new suicide prevention barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge is reportedly having a significant effect — even though it's not completed yet.

According to statistics released in July by the Bridge Rail Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group that has campaigned for a barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge since 2006, there have been five confirmed suicide jumps from the bridge this year through June, compared with 22 from all of last year.

Between 2000 and 2019, the bridge averaged between 30 and 40 suicides per year.

"It's been a long hard haul, and I'm delighted that the net is going forward and that suicides have decreased," said Bridge Rail Foundation co-founder David Hull.

Construction on the suicide prevention barrier, a horizontal net of steel cables that runs 20 feet below the walkways on both sides of the bridge, began in 2017 and is expected to be finished by the end of this year.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/decrease-in-golden-gate-bridge-suicide-jumps-likely-a-result-of-prevention-barrier/

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[NoRethugFriends]

1. Dislike.

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3. wut

[obamanut2012]

4. Why in the world do you dislike something to save lives?

[NCIndie]

2. That's good news. The despondent might reconsider their options and choose to live.

Others will use a gun.

[former9thward]

6. There is a big sex difference.

A slight majority of men use guns (54%). A larger majority of women use hanging or poisoning (60%).

[obamanut2012]

5. People who have survived such a suicide attemp have said they regretted it the second they jumped

So, great news. It gives folks a chance to get the assistance they need.