Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier starting to take shape

Steven Miller, the bridge district’s bridge manager, said an estimated 1,700 people have killed themselves by jumping off the bridge since its construction.

A peak of suicide attempts occurred just in 2017, with 280 people having gone to the bridge with the purpose of killing themselves, according to the district General Manager Denis Mulligan.

Bridge security were able to intervene for the majority of those people, about 245, but there were still 33 confirmed suicides that year.

The peak of confirmed suicides occurred within this decade as well, with 46 confirmed cases in 2013, Miller said.

In 2018, there were more than 200 attempts, with 187 interventions and 27 confirmed suicides, according to district data.

The nearly 250-foot plunge to the bay occurs in a matter of seconds, with the person falling at a terminal velocity of 75 miles per hour.

The impact does not always result in death, resulting instead in fractured or broken bones and internal bleeding.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/17/golden-gate-bridge-suicide-barrier-starting-to-take-shape/

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Sean Moylan:

On June 5, 2014, at 4:22 pm, 27-year-old Sean Moylan of Novato, California, jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, ending his life. The Coast Guard pulled Moylan's body out of the waters beneath the bridge. Moylan was the grandson of John Moylan, a longtime member of the Golden Gate District board of directors who campaigned for the installation of suicide barriers on the bridge. The elder Moylan was president of the board when, in 2008, a historic decision was made to build the barrier at a cost of $68 million. John Moylan referred to his grandson's death as "heartbreaking"; however, he did not blame it on the lack of a barrier. Sean Moylan already had attempted suicide in February 2014; after a breakup with his girlfriend, Moylan walked in front of a truck in Oregon and was critically injured

He looks like the Irish Guy

Sean Moylan: soldier, politician and independent spirit

Spanish Civil War veteran Micheál O'Riordan welcomes the publication of Sean Moylan's Irish War of Independence memoir

Sean Moylan memoirs

ON BODENSTOWN Sunday in late June 1938, a rather unique Wolfe Tone commemoration took place. Following a toast to Tone as the 'father of Irish republicanism', proposed by a British Battalion officer, the concert commenced. Belfastman Jim Straney sang The Four Flags of Ireland, Jewish Londoner Max Nash performed a Russian dance learned from his immigrant parents, and Domingo Morales sang a revolutionary song from his native Cuba.

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A jumper that survived

In 2014 Baldwin chaired the OSA Congress on Light, Energy and the Environment in Canberra – the first time that this conference has been brought to Australia - and which featured Professor Steven Chu, former Energy Secretary to President Barack Obama.[citation needed] As of 2016, his role as Chair is ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Baldwin

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Professor Steven Chu