The Golden Gate Bridge is second-most used site for suicide attempts in the world. I’m not telling you this so you can go look up the one nearest to you after the Seahawks lost to the Falcons 36-20 on Saturday, ending their season, but for another reason. There is a 2006 documentary about this called The Bridge and one of my favorite quotes of all-time comes from it.
Ken Baldwin, a survivor of the jump (it’s estimated the 98-percent of all suicide attempts/falls from the Golden Gate Bridge are successful) recalled the moment he had leapt:
“I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable — except for having just jumped.