Theres a certain magnetic appeal around a suicide site that draws other desperate souls to it, said John Bateson, a longtime director of a Bay Area suicide prevention center and the author of The Final Leap, a 2012 book about suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge. And the Golden Gate Bridge exert
Date: Nov 05, 2023
Category: U.S.
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Golden Gate Bridge anniversary: After 75 years, it remains California's icon
"There are people who went to the bridge to jump but didn't because they couldn't find a parking place," says John Bateson, author of "The Final Leap," a new book about suicides at the bridge, and a former director of the Contra Costa Crisis Center. In 2011, there were 37 suicides on the bridge and