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> Of 515 people prevented by police from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971, by the end of the 70s only 6% of them had committed suicide b
by autoexec 5y ago
> Of 515 people prevented by police from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971, by the end of the 70s only 6% of them had committed suicide by other means.
Perhaps much of that is because they got the help they needed following the incident. It probably also helps that they were a group made up of those who were able to be persuaded by police to not jump in the first place already showing at least some willingness to keep living.
- LorenPechtel 5y agoNote, also, the prerequisite: For the police to talk them down they must have been on the brink but not jumped for some time, otherwise the police wouldn't be there to talk them down. I don't think the ones that are talked down are a remotely representative sample.
- y6edgy5r 5y agoThrowaway for obvious reasons; i tried to kill myself and ended up in the icu for 3 days. i stood up because i didn't want to live any longer, took 3 bottles of anti depressants, and laid down to die. Luckily my girlfriend found me and cashed 911. I was depressed, i was taking anti depressants, but i wouldn't say the description in the original quote was accurate for my case, i didn't have a slow declinr into it. It was like a switch flipped in my head and i wanted to die, but now even when life is the hardest i wouldn't consider suicide, so it kinda was like a suicide vaccine for me.
- IntrepidWorm 5y agoRight- any studies on the mindset of those who attempt suicide and survive, or those who attempt but are talked down by responders or family/friends are obviously tainted by survivorship bias.