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find more posts in: death, pasadenaI used to drive by it every day, but I had no idea that the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena is known as the “Suicide bridge”. Nearly 100 people jumped from the bridge during the Depression (and presumably a few more over the past 70 years). It’s no Golden Gate, but that’s probably because people in Southern California are happy.
From the Wikipedia “Suicide bridge” article:
Bridges that are “suicide magnets” include the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal, and the Duke Ellington Bridge in Washington, D.C..
To reach such locations, those with the intention to commit suicide may pass over other bridges, even taller ones. There are a number of cases of people travelling over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to reach the Golden Gate, for instance. While this may not make utilitarian sense, it is consistent with hypotheses that people considering suicide may sometimes choose a specific scenario for their suicide rather than suicide by any comparable method per se.