Resource Tag: BRIDGES
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“To show the problem inside and out”: Representations of mental illness and suicide in Eric Steel’s The Bridge (IN Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture edited by S. Coleclough, B. Michael-Fox & R. Visser)
The 2006 documentary The Bridge focuses on the lives and deaths of six suicide victims who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. Shot over a twelve-month period, the film presents the footage of each victim’s demise, recorded from the distant shoreline by director/producer Eric Steel and his crew. The Bridge has been criticized for publicizing these six […]
The suicide magnet: Inside the battle to erect a safety barrier on Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct
The inside story of the grassroots fight to have a suicide barrier erected on Toronto’s “bridge of death.” Most Torontonians have no idea their city once hosted the second most popular suicide magnet in North America, behind the Golden Gate Bridge. Since its completion in 1918, more than four hundred people jumped to their death […]
Suicide in the transport system (IN: The Vision Zero Handbook, edited by K.E. Bjornberg, S.O. Hansson, M. Belin, & C. Tingvall)
The Swedish Transport Administration (STA) work to reduce the number of suicides in the transport system. Fatalities, i.e., on roads, railways, and bridges, originate from either accidents or suicides, natural death excluded. Knowing the correct manner of death is needed to work with optimal prevention strategies. The aims are to separate fatalities due to suicides, […]
From suicide surveillance to restricting access to means: A time series study of suicide prevention at the Story Bridge
Surveillance is a crucial part of suicide prevention, for identifying suicide trends, risk groups, suicide clusters (World Health Organization (WHO), 2014) and frequently used locations for suicide. Suicide sites are usually public, natural or man-made objects known for their use for suicidal behaviour (e.g. bridges or cliffs) (Ross et al., 2020). Some suicide prevention activities […]
Analysis of the cost effectiveness of a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge
Background: The Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) is a well-known “suicide magnet” and the site of approximately 30 suicides per year. Recently, a suicide barrier was approved to prevent further suicides. Aims: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the proposed suicide barrier, we compared the proposed costs of the barrier over a 20-year period ($51.6 million) to estimated reductions […]
An analysis of the impact of suicide prevention messages and memorials on motorway bridges
Recently, there has been activity at public locations where people have died by suicide, including the erection of suicide prevention messages and memorials (decorations). This research looks at the impact of these decorations and associated media coverage of the decorations on suicidal behaviour at bridges. Incidents (n = 160) of suicidal behaviour on 26 bridges across motorways […]
A 12-year national study of suicide by jumping from bridges in Norway.
Studies from several countries suggest that erecting fences on bridges more commonly used for suicide by jumping may be an effective way of reducing the risk of suicide by jumping from these bridges. Distribution of suicides by jumping off bridges has not yet been studied on a national level in any country. This study included […]
Crisis phones — suicide prevention versus suggestion/contagion effects: Skyway Bridge, 1954-2012.
Journal held in CSP Library.
The effectiveness of structural interventions at suicide hotspots: A meta-analysis.
Certain sites have gained notoriety as ÔhotspotsÕ for suicide by jumping. Structural interventions (e.g. barriers and safety nets) have been installed at some of these sites. Individual studies examining the effectiveness of these interventions have been underpowered. We conducted a meta-analysis, pooling data from nine studies. Contact us for a copy of this article, or […]
Cracked, not broken.
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. At 19 years old, Kevin attempted to take his own life […]
Suicides mounting: Golden Gate looks to add a safety net.
For 60 years, the directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, reflecting the live-and-let-live ethos that animates this city, never agreed to build a barrier. Now, with the numbers of suicides rising , the country has more annually than traffic fatalities , and the ages of those jumping here declining, they are […]
Analysis of the cost effectiveness of a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) is a well-known Òsuicide magnetÓ and the site of approximately 30 suicides per year. Recently, a suicide barrier was approved to prevent further suicides. Cost-benefit analysis suggests that a suicide barrier on the GGB would result in a highly cost-effective reduction in suicide mortality in the San Francisco Bay Area.