Golden Gate Bridge hits milestone in 2013 with 46 suicides

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1. I saw a profile on NPR a couple years back

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about the official SFPD counselor who gets called when someone is threatening to jump and he has to intervene and talk them out of it...

The sad part is when that story came out, iirc, Golden Gate suicides were the lowest they had been in awhile (maybe they meant year-to-date)...

The other fact I didn't know is that despite all the poetic romanticism of jumping off the Golden Gate, it is NOT a pleasant, painless way to go...Many jumpers hit rock instead of water so their bodies get mangled and dismembered (which is that much more traumatic for family members who have to identify remains), and sometimes death isn't instant, either....It's just gruesome for everyone involved and anyone unlucky enough to be a witness at that moment...