This year is the 75th anniversary of
the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and while reading up about it, found this ghastly section in Wikipedia:
Suicide
More people die by suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge than at any other site in the world. The deck is approximately 245 feet (75 m) above the water. After a fall of approximately four seconds, jumpers hit the water at around 75 mph or approximately 120 km/h. Most jumpers die from impact trauma on contact with the water. The few who survive the initial impact generally drown or die of hypothermia in the cold water...
An official suicide count is kept, sorted according to which of the
bridge's 128 lamp posts the jumper was nearest when he or she jumped. By
2005, this count exceeded 1,200 and new suicides were occurring about
once every two weeks...
People have been known to
travel to San Francisco specifically to jump off the bridge, and may
take a bus or cab to the site; police sometimes find abandoned rental
cars in the parking lot.
And I'd never heard of
this movie.
The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel that consists of the results of one year's filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, which captured a number of suicides,
and additional filming of family and friends of some of the identified
people who had thrown themselves from the bridge. The film was inspired
by an article titled "Jumpers", written by Tad Friend, that appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2003.
The trailer
