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...survived to tell about it.) The figure does not include another 129 recorded by the California Highway Patrol as "possibles" based on circumstantial evidence -a pile of clothing left by the rail, a farewell message left behind, an abandoned car. But even the official toll, says Dr. Richard H. Seiden, associate professor of behavioral sciences at Berkeley, qualifies the bridge as "the No. 1 location for death by suicide in the entire Western world"-a fitting distinction for San Francisco, whose suicide rate of 38.2 per 100,000 is about twice that of the state of California, and more than...
With help from the California Highway Patrol and bridge authorities, Berkeley's Seiden now knows enough about the Golden Gate jumper to rough in his profile. Typically, he is a man (three out of four jumpers) in his 40s, and a Bay Area resident. Experience has taught observers to rule out the pedestrian who climbs a cable and poises irresolutely before the swan dive. Such behavior usually describes the "pseudo suicide," who does not really mean business; he can be coaxed, if necessary, to climb down...
Making Suicide Easy. But why the Golden Gate Bridge? Because, says Seiden, the jump from that impressive span has considerable publicity value: "The newspapers keep a running box score on the number. It is a very dramatic way to die if a person doesn't want to end up in the classifieds." Adds Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman, former chief of the Center for Studies of Suicide Prevention at the National Institute of Mental Health: "One jumps from a place which has a reputation. It is the thing to do and the place...
...HYMAN SEIDEN Far Rockaway...
Summa cum Laude awards among those graduating went to Fred Norman Fishman, in Engineering Sciences, and Hellmut Joseph Juretschke, in Electronic Physics, George Seiden, Peter S. Berger, Irving Constant, William H. White, Edward B. Burke, and Saul Touster, were the men receiving Magna cum Laude degrees...