Well it's not. Suicide is a valid option for people. Is it just me that thinks these office workers are being pretty emo? I mean, big deal - some guy you don't know jumps of a bridge that you can faintly make out from your office. It's really not that different from reading about someone dying in the news. 39 over a decade isn't that high a number given a city the size of seattle. IMO the workers just need to stop whining.
.0078% roughly the population of Seattle over ten years... that's not big on it's own but when you see it's of that bridge alone it gets worse. Almost 4 a year, we're talking 1 every 3 months.. It'd get very disturbing after awhile to work there IMO, even if you don't know the people jumping. Mostly thought the splatter when they hit must be the worst to see. That and the guy with a body on his car... Anywho, it is odd that no one cared when it was an industrial area.. typical government though, not a big deal until people know it's there and complain.
Nice options Bindi, i like the idea of a booth lol. I'm with specofdust on this one, you dont know them so whats the deal, but i wouldnt really want the bodies on my car / around my work place, they leave a very bloody mess....my dads told me stories of when he had to picture a man who had lept from a 100ft tall bridge onto a dual carrige-way and while walking backwards almost stepped on part of his brain....its not a pretty sight.
How about a sign? Works at Beachy Head. Though the "No Fly-Tipping" one doesn't. If at first you don't succeed...
I don't know what I find more disturbing... That the people here don't seem to care about people committing suicide, or that they seem more sympathetic to the people who's property was inadvertently damaged by said suicide. It seems very selfish to complain about your car when someone is dead. I don't mean that you shouldn't be upset about the situation, but it seems horrible to be mad at the person who just died. The insensitivity from the above posters tward's people who commit suicide is absolutely disgusting. I'm sure that if it was one of your family / friends that had killed themselves, the last thing you would be worried about is the guys car that got smashed. I have read how many of you are upset about the people being kill at war (which I agree with), but then you come back with this ******** and it makes me sick. Seriously show some respect, these people obviously had serious mental problems and their life was certainly worth much more then the car they landed on. And I agree that people shouldn't have to see others commit suicide. I think the the best thing would be for the office buildings to frost the windows facing the bridge. At least for a short-turn fix. </phychotic rant>
Much as I don't agree with suicide, the jumper is dead. A bad choice but their worries are over, for this life at least. If you're an average joe office worker taking a smoke break and a dead body splats 20 metres in front of you, however, it is gonna mess with you a bit. Few like to have the concept of mortality forcibly demonstrated to them.
Well that, or they just felt life wasn't fullfilling them and decided to end it. I'm sure it's more common then you'd think. It's a perfectly valid and moral option to take.
Although your comments are very valid devenfore (which is why I have stayed out of this one), I don't think you can expect a rational or empathising response from people who just had a person falling to death on their car. As for suicide: people still perceive it either as an involuntary act of madness, or as a rational, personal choice. The idea of it lying somewhere on a continuum between the two is a hard concept for people to entertain. Same goes for addictive behaviours, eating disorders or self-harm.
It was explained in the article that it's make the bridge too prone to wind... but with all of Emurika's fancy 50 million dollar weapons you'd think someone could come up with a railing that'd work
You're the one slagging off all suicides as nutters. I've known several; there's a canal nearby where a number of elderly people have decided their life hurt and wasn't worth going on with, call it self-euthanasia not some mental illness. Two others couldn't face public and family shame, the mind balance may have been very disturbed but that was their character, their choice. Show some respect for the dead? There are lots of shades of grey between black and white. Respect where due, not blanket hypocrisy.
have you ever seen a dead body? more importantly, have you ever seen a _splattered_ dead body? in real life? i have. it's not a nice thing and was more than somewhat traumatising. suicide in my view is one of the most selfish things to do, and to have to force others to see the grisly results of your actions, well, it angers me. you call the people who complain about the suicides emo!? what about the stupid ****s who are simply too faggotted up to think they can continue to live?
How about the selfishness of a society that lets people sink in such dire circumstances that suicide seems like the only way out? "No man is an island" goes both ways... Ok, to everybody: I know this is a radical paradigm shift for some people (I can hear the mental gearboxes grinding), but could it just perhaps be possible that both the person comitting suicide and the traumatised witness are "suicide victims"? That both are victims of outrageous fortune and circumstance? Bad, unfair crap happens to people. Let's not add insult to injury by pointing fingers and passing judgement on desperation and trauma we know nothing about.
