Terribly sad video

A man heard about the high number of suicides from the golden gate bridge and set about making a documentary. He (along with his team) filmed every day for a year and recorded 23 people (out of 24) jumping to their deaths from one bridge in one year.The crew also stepped in to prevent a further 5 suicides.

Officials have so far not put any plans in place to build any kind of protection or barrier.

Here's a short and sad clip from the documentary.

A note worth mentioning is that the man in black who jumps at the end of the video paced up and down the bridge for 90 minutes before jumping. While he was pacing the bridge somebody was leaving a message on his answer machine at home offering him a job.

[video=youtube;KZQctG3gjx4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQctG3gjx4[/video]

 

people who commit suicide are spiteful and cowardly people, they leave the pain and suffering to others!!

 

And you know this, how?

Do you have any solid, factual evidence to state such a thing? I highly doubt it. Imbecile.

 

An old Army friend of mine who used to post on here knew a bloke who was badly injured (lost an eye and had a leg amputated) due to somebody jumping from a bridge to commit suicide and whatever was going through the mind of the person jumping there was an innocent victim caught up in something that he didn’t deserve to be caught up in. I am sure they are in a very dark place when they decide to end their lives but they do leave behind loved ones who feel the pain long after the death. If they jump in a public place they do risk injuring and killing an innocent person. It turned out that the bloke who jumped from bridge and crippled my mates friend did so because his girlfriend had left him.

 

You're fast becoming one of the biggest ****s on here.

 

Becoming?

 

Fair point.

The phrase was t w a t by the way but any other 4 letter expletive would fit.

 

You havent a clue what you are talking about.

Have you witnessed suicide or attempted suicide?

Have you ever been at rock bottom?


Sadly i have had an immediate family member involved in trying to take his life. That is all you need to know.

 

That's harsh. I have lost 3 people who were very important in my life to suicide and the last things I would call them is cowardly and spiteful. Yes they do leave people with a lot of pain and sometimes guilt but you have to understand what terrible state of mind they must have been in to end their life. It must be a terrible unimaginable state to be in to think your only way out is death.

 

That is awful. I can't believe they're not trying to stop that from happening.

The one that affected me the most was the guy at the end, how he looked when he fell back was so sad.

Just think if someone in one of the cars driving past had stopped and tried to help them.

 

Come on greekman, i know you like a wind up but saying something like that is going way too far

 

I don't like this

It's the worst kind of voyeurism. The people with the camera should have used the time and effort they put in filming these jumpers in to trying to intervene. I know I don't spend my time on bridges being the good Samaritan, but if you're going to be there and you know what's going on then do something, don't just film it.

 

Re: I don't like this

Feel physically sick after watching that. Can't say anything else. Horrible.

 

So i dont have a clue about this subject do i? Listen just because i dont spread my life story on this site like a few others do, dont try and judge me! I have lost my BEST friend to suicide and it was me who had to support his family through the debts he left them with. So to say i dont know what im talking about is totally untrue!!!

 

To quote you, do you think your best mate was spiteful and cowardly for what he did or maybe a man who had serious issues and was in such a poor mental state he could see no other way out

 

I stand by my original statement.

 

If someone really wants to commit suicide then they will. I'm not sure of the benefits of putting up safety fences, the reason they do it on motorway bridges is more to stop them causing an even greater number of fatalities by jumping in front of cars rather than to stop the person themselves.

 

So you think your best friend was a spiteful coward. Ok, was interested to know.

 

Do you not think it is the act of a spiteful person to do something which results in the unhappiness of a whole load of people? he was a coward, if you have a family you have to do your all to support them through thick and thin and taking the 'easy way out' is the act of a coward in MY OPINION.

 

From personal experience no I do not think it is at all spiteful. I was devastated when i lost people to suicide, but I was terribly sad at how desperate they must have been. I also felt guilty wondering if I should have noticed any signs or maybe done more to help the person. I don't think it is a matter of taking the easy way out as you said. If things in life have effected them so badly that it has got them in such a poor mental state that they commit suicide this is not cowardice this is a mental breakdown or a mental illness that has caused them to end their life.