SFGate: Lethal Beauty

The Bridge that Killed 1,218 People

With US combat deaths in Iraq at 2,000, it's interesting to note that a single bridge in the united states has killed 1,218 people. Actually, that's not the number of people killed on the bridge, that's the number of suicides of people jumping off of the famous Golden Gate Bridge.

One can assume that most of these folks suffer from some sort of clinical depression. Since most depressed folks don't live within jumping distance of the Golden Gate Bridge, we can only guess at the number of suicides caused by depression. I wonder how the government's funding of mental health programs compares to the budget for the Iraq war?



SFGate: Lethal Beauty