The current issue of the Economist (June 10th-16th 2006) has a short article ("Deadly Beauty", p28)
on the popular if macabre use of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California - namely, on its function
as the perfect suicide locale. Apparently, the 4-foot-tall railing deters only the most hesitant
would-be suicides.
As for the rest, according to the data published in the article, the Golden Gate Bridge with its
two-per-month attempted suicide rate is the most popular place in the world to call it quits.
(Far from everyone succeeds, though)...
Read the rest of: "Heaven's Golden Gate"»
