Disturbing Full Length Movie: The Golden Gate Bridge Suicides (Nice: how much, tax)

[18Montclair]

So sad.

YouTube - The Golden Gate Bridge Suicides ( Full Version: 1hr 34m )

[andyadhi01]

I watched the movie and it was pretty depressing.... I guess if you deal with the non-stop gloomy weather for years then severe depression is an inevitable outcome. Its spring everywhere and SF is immersed in thick drizzling for 3 days..

[rah]

Originally Posted by andyadhi01

I watched the movie and it was pretty depressing.... I guess if you deal with the non-stop gloomy weather for years then severe depression is an inevitable outcome. Its spring everywhere and SF is immersed in thick drizzling for 3 days..

Of course you would try and blame over 1,300 suicides on SF's weather. You're pretty pathetic dude. This is not the Pacific Northwest, or some Nordic country, where seasonal affective disorder (lack of sun creating depression in people) can actually be a problem. We get enough sun here to combat that for 99% of people, regardless of how much you have deluded yourself into thinking you live in Siberia. Move already.

[andyadhi01]

Originally Posted by rah

Of course you would try and blame over 1,300 suicides on SF's weather. You're pretty pathetic dude. This is not the Pacific Northwest, or some Nordic country, where seasonal affective disorder (lack of sun creating depression in people) can actually be a problem. We get enough sun here to combat that for 99% of people, regardless of how much you have deluded yourself into thinking you live in Siberia. Move already.

No! SF is known for high level of incidence of SAD.

I agree with you in the sense that the city has the ability to depress people even when the weather is good!

[mstnghu2]

Originally Posted by andyadhi01

I watched the movie and it was pretty depressing.... I guess if you deal with the non-stop gloomy weather for years then severe depression is an inevitable outcome. Its spring everywhere and SF is immersed in thick drizzling for 3 days..

I'm sure none of these people came from other places and they were all residents of SF.

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Originally Posted by mstnghu2

I'm sure none of these people came from other places and they were all residents of SF.

If he had watched the movie, he would know that many people travel very far to jump off of that bridge...becuase it's a beautiful and iconic location. I guess they don't mind SF's weather huh? Unlike andy, who ironically blames their deaths on SF's "bad" weather, when the weather is arguably one of things that drew many of them there in the first place...in fact i'm surprised he hasn't jumped yet, judging by his constant negativity

[rah]

Originally Posted by andyadhi01

No! SF is known for high level of incidence of SAD.

I agree with you in the sense that the city has the ability to depress people even when the weather is good!

Maybe for some people who live in the foggier parts, especially those more susceptible to it. But overall? No. According to this source, one of the first to pop up on google: Cloudiest Cities in US - Current Results

SF is not in the top 9 cities to experience "days of heavy cloud"

SF is not in the top 16 for "cloudy days"

SF is not in the top 14 for "partially cloudy days"

I don't know why each list is of a different length, but that data is from the National Climatic Data Center. SF is not nearly as cloudy or foggy as you keep trying to convince people it is (though yes it is much more foggy than probably any big city, but only some parts ever get LOTS of fog anyways, while some parts get little to none, and the fog volume is seasonal as well, as we've told you over and over). SF has a Mediterranean climate: wet winters, dry the rest of the time. Stop spreading misinformation.

[Bulldogdad]

Given SF's majority political makeup I would think they would support tax payer assisted suicide. We provide the bridge and suicidal people jump for what ever reason. Sounds ok to me, if that's your moral outlook on suicide.

[NorCal Dude]

People don't jump of the bridge because SF is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing. They jump because it is accessable. I thought they were supposed to put a safety barrier up already. No suprise that SF has burried its head in the sand, as usual. When your biggest land mark is a magnet for the mentally unstable, that's a problem. Sounds third worldish to me.

[rah]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dude

People don't jump of the bridge because SF is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing. They jump because it is accessable. I thought they were supposed to put a safety barrier up already. No suprise that SF has burried its head in the sand, as usual. When your biggest land mark is a magnet for the mentally unstable, that's a problem. Sounds third worldish to me.

there are a lot more immediate ways for most people to kill themselves than trekking to the golden gate bridge to jump off. For many of those poeple who DO choose to jump off of it, one of the main reasons is pretty obvious: location (the bridge itself, the bay, the ocean, or SF, or some combination of those). Then you have those who jump because its convenient, those who do it because it's less scary or something, and then there's everyone else who commits suicide who don't go to the Golden Gate Bridge, and who exponentially outnumber GGB suicides, obviously. Nice attempt at throwing in a dig at SF though

The accessibility does play a huge part too, but if the bridge were unaccessible to pedeastrians at least some of those people would probably still have travelled to SF to kill themselves...or at least to CA, the Bay, or the Pacific Ocean.