Stainless steel mesh beneath iconic 1.7-mile span took decades of advocacy and is already working
- CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@ani.social ) 1•6 months ago
Thats not good news at all.
Reasons:
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Defaced a Historical building
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When someone wants to go, he shouldn’t be forced to stay.
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The reason why people chose to jump won’t be changed at all.
Its just treating a symptom rather than the problem.
In the article, there is a suicide-attempt survivor who is praising the suicide-prevention net.
- snooggums ( @snooggums@kbin.social ) 3•6 months ago
My doctor treats symptoms in addition to the cause, does yours?
- CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@ani.social ) 0•6 months ago
Well, the cause isn’t treated by putting suicide nets on one bridge, people just go somewhere else to jump if they want to.
- snooggums ( @snooggums@kbin.social ) 6•6 months ago
Opponents of the Golden Gate Bridge plan say the net will be an eyesore, and likely won’t stop people from finding other ways of dying by suicide. Yet other efforts have shown heartening results, including a similar net placed around the Munster Terrace cathedral in Bern, Switzerland, where two or three people had been jumping to their deaths per year prior to 1998. (After a safety net was built, no suicides occurred from 1998 to 2005.) Anecdotally, survivors of attempted suicide have also stated that such a net would have deterred them from jumping. “It would’ve stopped me right then and there,” said Kevin Berthia, a supporter of the Golden Gate safety net who almost jumped in 2005 but was rescued by a bridge worker, in an interview with ABC 7 News.
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 4•6 months ago
Yep, most suicides are spur of the moment things, keeping people from doing it impulsively is often enough to delay things to the point where they seek help.
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