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...talk and think about suicide in profoundly different ways." (Whatever its intentions, some critics have denounced it as reminiscent of a snuff film.) The film opened the same week that the bridge board got the final funding for a $2 million, two-year study into design concepts for a barrier, as well as research into a barrier's environmental, traffic, noise and esthetic impact and effectiveness...
...Trying to prevent suicides may seem like a no-brainer, but there are many opponents, and their arguments against building the barrier boil down to three major points...
...reason the railing was reduced from 5 1/2 ft., on the bridge's original plans, to 4 ft., was to give its diminutive chief engineer, Joseph Strauss, a better vantage point. Past designs were derided as being reminiscent of barbed wire surrounding a prison, but proponents of a barrier point to Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct, where some 500 people had jumped to their death and a new barrier, known as the "Luminous Veil" and completed in 2001, won Canada's Architectural Award of Excellence in 1999. Besides, argues survivor Hines, "what are aesthetics compared to a human life...
...would be too expensive. Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District spokeswoman Mary Currie says ballpark estimates put the cost of a barrier between $15 million and $25 million. "We don't know where those funds would come from," she says. It took over a year just to get the $2 million for the study. Then there is the cost of security cameras, telephones and regular police patrols aimed at stopping jumpers. (About 50 people a year are talked or pulled down before they jump...
...particular way," Seiden wrote, "it may be enough to tip the vital balance from death to life - findings confirm previous observations that suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented and acute in nature." Seiden concluded 28 years ago that "the justification for prevention and intervention such as building a suicide prevention barrier is warranted. And the prognosis for suicide attempters is, on balance, relatively hopeful...