It is horrible beyond the most terrifying nightmares that anyone could envision.Īnd there is no turning back after the jump. In August of 1937, Harold Wobber, a veteran of World War I, strolled along the pedestrian walkway on the Golden Gate Bridge, paused, looked at a stranger and said, “This is as far as I go.” He then jumped to his death.Īnd to the mentally ill individuals who go to the bridge, a jump to the water below seems like a peaceful way to end to their pain.īut it is anything but peaceful. It is appalling that the barrier was not put in place long ago, but arguments about aesthetics, bridge structure, and money have caused an endless morass to the blindingly obvious problem, which is this: The bridge is the equivalent of an easily-accessible, loaded handgun for countless suicidal individuals, and someone needs to take the damn gun away…and that is done by building a suicide barrier.īack in 1937, when the construction on the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, no one envisioned that it would become one of the major suicide sites in the world.īut the suicides began almost immediately. The rail is a mere 4-feet high, and thus virtually anyone can step over it in a second.Īnswer: Because Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer of the bridge, was five feet tall and he wanted to be able to see over the rail, and thus changed the original planned height from 5½ feet to 4 feet.īut regardless of the original height of the rail, why hasn’t a suicide barrier been built? That is, why haven’t they built a high fence that is very difficult, or next to impossible, to climb?Īnswer: There have been seven previous attempts at a suicide barrier, but the bridge bureaucracy precluded any of the plans from actually being implemented. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly easy to jump from the bridge. We lose one person about every other week to the waters below, as the bridge somehow holds an allure to people who are suicidal. She is one of some 1,300 individuals who have died by suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Later that day, Marissa jumped to her death from the Golden Gate Bridge. Marissa Imrie was just 14 when she wrote those words as part of her suicide note. “Everyone is better off without this fat, disgusting, boring girl.” The Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge Suicides: Help Save Lives! Please Click Below: DonateĪ young man is talked out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Survivors Forum - Click for Info!
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Proposals for the construction of a hardware antisuicide barrier have been challenged with the untested contention that "they'll just go someplace else." This research tests the contention by describing and evaluating the long-term mortality experience of the 515 persons who had attempted suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge but were restrained, from the opening day through the year 1971 plus a comparison group of 184 persons who made nonbridge suicide attempts during 1956-57 and were treated at the emergency room of a large metropolitan hospital and were also followed through the close of is a 501c3 NON-PROFIT Organization and Website From the opening day, to April 1, 1978, there have been 625 officially reported suicide deaths and perhaps more than 200 others which have gone unseen and unreported. The Golden Gate Bridge is currently the number one suicide location in the world.
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