San Francisco, California, United States
Between 1937 and 2012, an estimated 1,400 bodies were recovered of people who had jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.
In 2013, 118 potential jumpers were talked down from their attempts and did not jump. As of 2013, it is estimated that 34 people have survived after jumping. Some die instantly from internal injuries, while others drown or die of hypothermia.
A number of measures are in place to discourage people from jumping, including telephone hotlines and patrols by emergency personnel and bridge workers. Although it had previously been considered impractical to build a suicide barrier, in 2014, the bridge’s directors approved a proposal for a net below the bridge’s deck, extending out either side, rather than side barriers at the railings as had long been proposed.
The tragedy of the Golden Gate Bridge’s $400 million anti-suicide net
By: Sherrie Page Guyer
10th May 2023
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention#part_2474
I survived jumping from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge – and replay nearly every second of the four-second fall before I hit the water at 80 miles per hour
- Kevin Hines, now 41, was 19 when he survived a suicide attempt by jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
- Hines is one of 36 people who survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge
- If you or a loved one needs help, call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988
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