Most Popular Suicide Sites 3
by Popular public places where people commit suicide.
The third installment of this series which lists popular public places where people commit suicide. While the media tends to play up suicides in popular public places less than 3% of all suicides actually occur in places like the ones listed here but when they do happen in public it is there for all to see.
In my second year at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts a distraught man jumped to his death from the YMCA building roof on Huntington Ave with a pillow case tied over his head. Northeastern rented out the top two floors of the 10 story YMCA building and I was living on the top floor at the time. I did not see the man jump but some of my friends walking back from class did and when they told me we all ran to the end of the long floor to look out the window where the man landed. It was not a pretty site as blood pooled and colored the pillow case around the man’s head and we watched as rescue workers tried to save the man to no avail until Sean Jones, a mountain of a man who would go on to play pro football in the NFL for 12 seasons who also attended Northeastern and lived on the same floor we did, wanted to have a look. The window was not big enough for the 6 foot 7 inch Jones and anybody else to look but we had seen enough anyway. You don’t ever forget seeing something like that.
Colorado Street Bridge also Known as Suicide Bridge
Located in Pasadena, California, the Colorado Street Bridge or Suicide Bridge is 1,467 feet long and 150 feet high and spans the Arroyo Seco, which is a deep cut canyon that links the San Gabriel Mountains with the Los Angeles River. The bridge was constructed in 1913 and at least 100 people committed suicide by leaping into the Arroyo Seco from the Colorado Street Bridge by 1939. The bridge was long ago nicknamed the Suicide Bridge and many reports have surfaced that claim the bridge and Arroyo Seco are haunted today by the spirits of those who killed themselves here, see Is Colorado Street Bridge Really Haunted?.
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Post CommentK Kristie
On March 25, 2009 at 7:40 am
Those are too pretty sites to do harakiri. A very well written article.
teddybear09
On March 25, 2009 at 9:36 am
Another very nice article form you Joe. Yeah its funny how you may be walking or driving over a bridge or around a tall building that someone has committed suicide on. It happens every where and you may never know.
Kate Smedley
On March 25, 2009 at 9:49 am
Thanks for an informative article, very sad undertones to it.
Jo Oliver
On March 25, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I just dont get how even the most depressed, manic, etc.. person in the world can look down….and still jump. I feel so bad for the families of the suicidal people. So, out of respect for them…I will end my comment with that.
Ruby Hawk
On March 25, 2009 at 8:05 pm
If you intended to kill yourself this is the most horrible way to go about it. I would think there are better ways.
jessie
On October 31, 2010 at 10:54 pm
my brother committed suicide by jumping in front of a montreal subway in 1974. I’ve been obsessed with his death ever since. I think about how the driver of the train might still be suffering from this memory, as well as people who may have witnessed my brother jump. I wish I could find out more about this event. Unfortunately, the newspaper that was most popular at the time is out of print.