Leapers

[oogabooga]

I found the article interesting, thanks OP for the read. I wasn't planning on jumping off that bridge (or any bridge) and I'm reasonably certain now that I still don't

Originally posted by: zoiks
Same here. I've never heard of anyone either who jumped. I think a lot of people who jump are really not native to the bay area.

Same here. I mean it's not like people in the bay area live wondering which one of their friends will jump next.

 

[Babbles]

That New Yorker article was a good article. Thanks!

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Almost everyone in the Bay Area knows someone who has jumped

As someone who grew up in the Bay Area and has a lot of family and friends who still live there, I can tell you that this statement is utter bullsh*t.

Interesting subject. Idiot writer.

MotionMan

I agree he is full of shit.

He even spelled Tyvex biohazard suit incorrectly. It's Tyvek. He lacks attention to detail, which should be nonexistent for a writer.


But anyways, the topic was interesting. I was a bit surprised at the part of the article where the guy who advocated for a barrier was taunted at, especially since this is San Fransisco we're talking about.

But when I thought about it, maybe the more liberal population accepts the idea of the right to die? :shrugs;

Yeah the one guy said taunters were telling him to "jump".

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: oogabooga
I found the article interesting, thanks OP for the read. I wasn't planning on jumping off that bridge (or any bridge) and I'm reasonably certain now that I still don't

Originally posted by: zoiks
Same here. I've never heard of anyone either who jumped. I think a lot of people who jump are really not native to the bay area.

Same here. I mean it's not like people in the bay area live wondering which one of their friends will jump next.

Your welcome. You know i lived in the Bay Area for 49 years and if someone were to ask me how many people i thought had killed themselves by jumping off of the GGBridge .i would have said i had no idea but maybe a couple of hundred at most. I was mildly shocked when i read the true figure of over 1200 in less than 70 years.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Almost everyone in the Bay Area knows someone who has jumped

As someone who grew up in the Bay Area and has a lot of family and friends who still live there, I can tell you that this statement is utter bullsh*t.

Interesting subject. Idiot writer.

MotionMan

I agree he is full of shit.

He even spelled Tyvex biohazard suit incorrectly. It's Tyvek. He lacks attention to detail, which should be nonexistent for a writer.


But anyways, the topic was interesting. I was a bit surprised at the part of the article where the guy who advocated for a barrier was taunted at, especially since this is San Fransisco we're talking about.

But when I thought about it, maybe the more liberal population accepts the idea of the right to die? :shrugs;

Yeah the one guy said taunters were telling him to "jump".

I'd tell him to jump. Screw them, one less dumbass in the world. Let people make their own decisions.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: oogabooga
I found the article interesting, thanks OP for the read. I wasn't planning on jumping off that bridge (or any bridge) and I'm reasonably certain now that I still don't

Originally posted by: zoiks
Same here. I've never heard of anyone either who jumped. I think a lot of people who jump are really not native to the bay area.

Same here. I mean it's not like people in the bay area live wondering which one of their friends will jump next.

Your welcome. You know i lived in the Bay Area for 49 years and if someone were to ask me how many people i thought had killed themselves by jumping off of the GGBridge .i would have said i had no idea but maybe a couple of hundred at most. I was mildly shocked when i read the true figure of over 1200 in less than 70 years.

Yeah, that's a little more than 1 a month on average.

 

[ManyBeers]

By the way i have been on the pedestrian walkway before and i can tell you this, looking down from there the water looks a lot more than 230 feet down.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: oogabooga
I found the article interesting, thanks OP for the read. I wasn't planning on jumping off that bridge (or any bridge) and I'm reasonably certain now that I still don't

Originally posted by: zoiks
Same here. I've never heard of anyone either who jumped. I think a lot of people who jump are really not native to the bay area.

Same here. I mean it's not like people in the bay area live wondering which one of their friends will jump next.

Your welcome. You know i lived in the Bay Area for 49 years and if someone were to ask me how many people i thought had killed themselves by jumping off of the GGBridge .i would have said i had no idea but maybe a couple of hundred at most. I was mildly shocked when i read the true figure of over 1200 in less than 70 years.

yea but big picture thats nothing. 4000 people die in car accidents each year in california alone the simple fact is this. there already is a barrier, the railing. a bigger barrier is the inconvenience. we are talking san francisco, going to visit the bridge generally means braving a long trip by car or if walk/bike even worse through cold and wind and rain. jumping off a bridge isn't an option thats right outside your door, you gotta work at it.

 

[Quasmo]

I just watched the bridge, that was some terribly disturbing stuff.

 

[jme5343]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I just watched the bridge, that was some terribly disturbing stuff.

I just watched it as well, it's been in rotation on IFC.

Horribly real, an amazing film.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Almost everyone in the Bay Area knows someone who has jumped

As someone who grew up in the Bay Area and has a lot of family and friends who still live there, I can tell you that this statement is utter bullsh*t.

Interesting subject. Idiot writer.

MotionMan

I agree he is full of shit.

He even spelled Tyvex biohazard suit incorrectly. It's Tyvek. He lacks attention to detail, which should be nonexistent for a writer.


But anyways, the topic was interesting. I was a bit surprised at the part of the article where the guy who advocated for a barrier was taunted at, especially since this is San Fransisco we're talking about.

But when I thought about it, maybe the more liberal population accepts the idea of the right to die? :shrugs;

Yeah the one guy said taunters were telling him to "jump".

I'd tell him to jump. Screw them, one less dumbass in the world. Let people make their own decisions.

Telling somebody what to do doesn't sound like just letting them make their own decisions...

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
...I know this isn't a funny subject but this is funny:
Link

Survivors often regret their decision in midair, if not before. Ken Baldwin and Kevin Hines both say they hurdled over the railing, afraid that if they stood on the chord they might lose their courage. Baldwin was twenty-eight and severely depressed on the August day in 1985 when he told his wife not to expect him home till late. ?I wanted to disappear,? he said. ?So the Golden Gate was the spot. I?d heard that the water just sweeps you under.? On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over. ?I still see my hands coming off the railing,? he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, ?I instantly realized that everything in my life that I?d thought was unfixable was totally fixable?except for having just jumped.?

This is an interesting read too

hah what an egotistical narcissist (the iraqi)