http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/...ventNumber=1903 What are your thoughts on this? I have watched the documentary and it literally stopped my heart. This is horrorfying and sad. I never knew that the GGB would hold such suicides. TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA: The Golden Gate Bridge is notorious as a site for suicide. The official suicide count ended in 1995 when the number approached 1,000. Through the eight years to 2003, on average there was one suicide jump every two weeks, which brought the unofficial total to over 1,300 suicides [15]. The 220-foot (67 m) fall takes four seconds and jumpers hit the water at 75 miles per hour (120 km/h). As of 2006, only 26 people have survived the jump. The survivors all struck the water feet first and most suffered multiple internal injuries and broken bones. One young man supposedly jumped off the bridge in 1979, swam ashore and walked up on the beach. His worst injury turned out to be several broken vertebrae. Like 26 people survived out of 1,300 ?? Wow, that is deeply sad. Your thoughts?
Honestly, for someone to take their own life they must deeply hate themselves, and think that they are worth more dead than alive. Most of them couldn't be rehabilitated to a normal state of mind anyways, it's not like suicide is such a thing that doesn't happen often.
Scary thing is I was in San Francisco for a whole week and we passed over the Golden Gate Bridge. It has signs for suicide hotlines and stuff. What I think is even weirder is the fact that the bay that the bridge is on is the home to Alcatraz, the infamous prison. Major hotspots for a haunted place, dont you think so? Anyways, I was once suicidal for a period of time (not physically, but mentally wanted to die so badly), but some counselling and traveling helped me see things better. Now, I am only depressed a little bit and it' s usually just cause I am a bit sensitive. Anyone who commits suicide is an example not of insanity, but an example of just how f-cked up reality is. I hope that everyone can someday find it in them to not be tormmented with life' s problems, considering that everyone has to deal with them.
Very sad, but for some people they see it as the only option to escape their pain. It is most of the time other people's fault when this happens. If someone is being tormented and resorts to suicide, the blood is on the tormenter's hands. I hope they feel guilty for such acts, I hope they have to live with themselves for it. Depression is a big issue in teens and schools, around where I live there have been more than 5 school shootings that were the result of depression and a few resulted in suicides. I feel sorry for them though, they obviously had problems in their life they couldnt deal with. They should have tried, but I still feel bad for them.
Yeah, I was also depressed and I got help with it. In some cases, a person may not be suicidal... It could just be a plea for attention. In the trailer, you see a guy look around (Gene Sprauge) and he gets up on the rail and stands right up. This was very emotional for me, as he was on the cell phone before that, he was crying, and they did interviews and there was people who loved him. He got up, and there were people staring at him, but they never did ---- all... He opened his arms and he fell backwards. Very emotional, suicide is too depressing for me.
im guessing u have no idea do ya? some ppl see no reason to live so they dont want to ... others get so depressed it leasds to suicide and some do it just to see what its liek to die theres so many differ reasons for ppl killing themselves me i tried that so many times but i aint telling y though kinda personal
If that was directed at me, I meant how can the people 10 feet away from him not do anything except sit there and stare.
The beauty of far away film with no sound.... You could make out that they were a person look at him... It's not like they weren't talking. I high;y doubt you've tried to kill yourself if you honestly think people do it to see what it's like to die. If you were actually suicidal you'd know that the main reason people kill themselves is because they've failed in life, and think that they will be better dead than alive. It takes some serious hate for yourself to take your own life, and most people turn back at the last second, or unconsciously rig it so they won't die.
I doubt he would've been able to swim ashore with 7 broken vertebrae, especially after an impact like that. His spinal cord is bound to be affected somehow and you wouldn't be able to swim that body of water with a disability like that. But that's another story... I heard about this documentary about 3 weeks ago on a radio show I listen to, I've been wanting to see it ever since then. Apparently, the cameras they used were hooked to a live feed being monitored by the makers of the documentary and they would call the hot lines whenever they saw someone jumping. Part of the point of this film was to try and get something done to prevent suicides like this or something along those lines.
