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joether -> RE: Is it really a problem? (3/15/2014 4:15:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Yachtie
One of America’s most magnificent and recognisable landmarks is expected to be subject to new measures aimed at shaking off its least welcome superlative – most lethal.
Suicides are not officially counted but 46 people are known to have jumped to their deaths from the 425-foot high span last year, making a total of at least 1,500 since the bridge opened in 1937.
It is the second most common suicide spot in the world after the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China, which has seen more than 2,000 people kill themselves by jumping since it opened in 1968.
Now the various authorities in charge of the Golden Gate Bridge are close to agreeing a $66 million (£41m) project to alter the railings and fix huge nets under the public walkway and cycle path.
66 million feel good dollars. That's $44,00 per suicide over the last 67 years. What! If people want to commit suicide these idiots don't think they'll find another way? The Golden Gate isn't the only bridge. There's also train tracks, the highway, suicide by cop, high-rise buildings (a favorite of bankers), and of course the ubiquitous gun.
Worse of it is, I'm not surprised, it being first and foremost San Francisco and besides, it is in leftist California.
It really is a sad moment, that you, like hundreds of millions of Americans (if not billions of people on this planet) only have a tiny ounce of knowledge on what Depression is and isn't. And why those suffering from this invisible illness kill themselves. Do us a favor and get a serious, fucking, CLUE, on the subject matter.
While I applaud people for trying to find ways to curb suicides at the point of final decision; I would rather the money be spent educating the public to the depth of this illness. Even go so far as to remove the social stigma that is attached to it, that keeps millions from getting treatment in the first place! Ironically enough, Depression effects those with conservative political and religious outlooks than most other groups. Before you go and bash the 'leftist', best you understand its those folks that have done the most good in figuring out what the disease is and how to counter it.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, a person suffering from this illness can get treatment in the form of therapy and medical prescription drugs. In studies, therapy and drugs do the most good, but if given the choice, therapy works much better over drugs.
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