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.
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.
So you’re more concerned about the aesthetics of a bridge, that most people will never see up close, than the lives of people trying to end their lives??
Consider: your attitude towards others may be part of the problem. Try some empathy, I promise it won’t kill you.
I think you misunderstood, i don’t like putting suicide nets on shit because its not solving the problem, the people will just go somewhere else to jump, wich i said in the first comment.
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