My bridge of choice has no suicide related news in several years.

[Close_to_freedom]

What do I do? I cannot be stopped if I go to a bridge. It will fuck everything up. I'm not the type who would linger and be talked down by some cop.

 

[Adamsnolife]

What bridge you planning to jump from?

 

[Adamsnolife]

Nice. Good clearance below

 

[thats_a_wrap]

Where I live, there is a bridge that is the go-to suicide spot. Every now and again you hear about traffic getting blocked on it due to an 'incident'. Everyone knows what that means, and the word spreads, because people in cars or passers by see the person, or the items they left.

The media NEVER reports on it. They never report on any suicides here which I find odd. Apparently pretending like there isn't a suicide epidemic is helpful somehow. I guess they don't want to give people ideas? It's stupid though because you find out through word of mouth.

The bridge is a busy main road and only about 50 metres high, which I understand is too low to be reliable, however it is over (very cold) water, so I guess if the impact doesn't do the job, the drowning or hypothermia would. I am not in the US.

 

[rata1]

How aren't there any recent suicide news stories? It's the perfect place.

because of copycat suicides

 

[Close_to_freedom]

because of copycat suicides

So people are still dying there, but no one is talking about? It's a tourist bridge.

 

[rata1]

i don't know. i don't know the bridge nor its history. but in europe there are some countries where the media signed some kind of charter not to spread news about suicides in order to not provoke copycatsuicide...