https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/golden-gate-bridge-suicide-prevention-net-completed
Stainless steel mesh beneath iconic 1.7-mile span took decades of advocacy and is already working
Too late for two friends, but a fine step for the future.
Work began in 2018 but faced numerous construction delays, as well as resistance from people who did not want to alter the landmark or considered the installation too costly.
People that didn't want to alter the landmark.
smh
Interesting. So metal mesh 20 feet down…hurts like hell and you will probably be injured. I guess if you wanted to finish you’d just work up the energy to roll off? Or have to stand and jump again? Morbidly interesting.
What the US needs is comprehensive, free mental health care for people suffering and legal assisted suicide for those who want to opt out of life because of permanent physical ailments (pain, deadly illnesses etc)
You just about stole the words outta my brain.
The 'net' is solid stainless steel, twenty feet below the bridge deck. The drop will seriously injure jumpers, which might make sense — maybe leaving them unable to crawl to a final jump — but really, the whole project only makes sense if there's mental health care available to the survivors afterward, and we all know there's none of that in America.
“It’s stainless-steel wire rope netting, so it’s like jumping into a cheese grater,” Dennis Mulligan, the general manager of the bridge district, told the Associated Press. “It’s not soft. It’s not rubber. It doesn’t stretch. We want folks to know that if you come here, it will hurt if you jump.” Wouldn't wanna hurt the view, so we'll just maim people in poor mental states, that'll fix them.