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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) speaks at an event July 15, 2024, to commemorate the completion of the suicide deterrent system on the Golden Gate Bridge, also known as the net.
The Bridge is a 2006 British–American documentary film by Eric Steel, which spans 365 days of filming at the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. The film captured a number of suicides, and featured interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year.
On average, the district records over 30 deaths annually from people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
As of 2010, the Golden Gate Bridge has had more than 1,300 suicides by jumping since its construction in 1937. [308] Many locations where suicide is common have constructed barriers to prevent it; [ 309 ] this includes the Luminous Veil in Toronto, [ 307 ] the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, and Empire State Building ...
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A suicide bridge is a bridge used frequently by people to end their lives, most typically by jumping off and into the water or ground below.A fall from the height of a tall bridge into water may be fatal, although some people have survived jumps from high bridges such as the Golden Gate Bridge. [1]
A net designed to prevent suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge could cost nearly $400 million, double what was originally estimated for the project.