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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.
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 in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco —the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula —to Marin County , carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State ...
On September 25, 2000, Kevin Hines climbed over the rail of the Golden Gate Bridge. ‘All I wanted to do was live’: After years of debate, a suicide safety net for the Golden Gate Bridge is ...
Since it opened in 1937, around 2,000 people have jumped to their deaths from the bridge. However, as not all jumps are witnessed and not all bodies are found, the actual number could be higher.
John Kevin Hines (born August 30, 1981) is an American suicide prevention speaker who attempted suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California in 2000 at the age of 19. [1] His story gained major media coverage and he has since become a motivational speaker and advocate for suicide prevention.
The net, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars and was completed behind schedule, greatly reduced suicide deaths in 2023, according to the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.
The Bridge – a film about suicides from Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. Life After People - A TV documentary series about what happens to the world if humanity suddenly disappears; the Golden Gate Bridge collapses after around 100 years due to corrosion in its support cables. After 200 years, only the towers remain intact.
A net designed to prevent suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge could cost nearly $400 million, double what was originally estimated for the project.