Golden Gate Bridge - Suicides



"The Bridge" movie -- ugh, depressing.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhARXu3wWDc"]The Bridge - YouTube[/ame]
 
"The fatality rate of jumping is roughly 98%. As of 2006, only 26 people are known to have survived the jump." -wiki

It's OK everyone, the ones in the video all survived!
 
zimok said:
"The fatality rate of jumping is roughly 98%. As of 2006, only 26 people are known to have survived the jump." -wiki

It's OK everyone, the ones in the video all survived!
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ah fuck that. if I ever contemplated suicide, it certainly wouldn't be with something that gives me a 2% chance of surviving. end up all fucked up beyond belief, immense amount of pain, etc.
 
Committing suicide is the weakest way to go out. Leaves everybody you love feeling like shit....not cool.
 
pretty good video

there is a bridge down by where my mom lives that gets a couple jumpers a month, i daydreamed about setting up a camera and you link this video where someone actually did it lol.

not that i like to watch people die, i am just kind of curious about death.
 
I'm not watching this right before bed, but I don't understand the culture of condemning suicide. To me, it's Darwinism at it's finest. If people want to go, let them fucking go.
 
dreamache said:
ah fuck that. if I ever contemplated suicide, it certainly wouldn't be with something that gives me a 2% chance of surviving. end up all fucked up beyond belief, immense amount of pain, etc.
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This. A bullet in the head is the best way to do it imo.
 
jacky8 said:
This. A bullet in the head is the best way to do it imo.
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I'll tell you how not to do it, pills. Too easy to not take enough, or too easy to pussy out. Not personal experience per se, but a friend back in high school tried the pill thing.
 
After watching videos like this I always come back to the thought of how difficult it must be to finally just take that step off the edge. Or maybe it's not. You saw most of the jumpers in that video standing around at the rail, possibly trying to work up the courage to climb over onto the ledge. Possibly deciding if this was really what they were going to do. Maybe just waiting until there was nobody walking by, it's hard to say. But I wonder what's their final thought before falling? And the fact that they have several seconds before they hit the water and die is also a strange thing to contemplate.

Watching this brings back images of the World Trade Center and the people who made a conscious decision to jump and die, rather than be burned alive or go down with the buildings. Those haunt me even more, because none of those people wanted to die, yet they jumped and had 12 or so seconds before they hit the pavement, ending their life in a split second. How do you make yourself jump from a building 900 feet in the air, versus any alternative? Could you consider that the ultimate display of will power, or just non-rational thinking?

I don't condemn the people who jump from the bridge. It's not selfish necessarily. It's sad that they couldn't find a way to get help or a way out of whatever situations pushed them to jump. It's hard to imagine that life could get so bad where that was your only option.
 
efeezy said:
It's hard to imagine that life could get so bad where that was your only option.
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I think you misunderstand because you narrow something so broad as suicide down to one small idea, "only option".
 
Apparently, from interviewing survivors, a lot of them immediately regretted jumping while they were falling. I guess having death in front of you puts things in perspective.
 
mkultra said:
There's almost no surefire way to go about it, even with a shotgun to the head apparently has a 1% chance of survival: Most lethal methods of suicide | Lost All Hope: The web's leading suicide resource

You would really think a lot of these methods were more effective ^
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If you look up what they use at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, that's basically the surefire, clean, and painless way to do it. From memory, the stats are 100% died, with the only variation being how long it took (most in under 2 hours).

Maybe the above deserves a 'your mileage may vary' disclaimer..
 
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