OneGoodLeg wrote:
eb wrote:
Sure, but just because most news outlets have general policies of not reporting suicides doesn't mean that we wouldn't know about it if 2 people a month were jumping. Do you really think the coroner wouldn't take an interest?
I don't get why you seem to think this should be some sort of recurring headline. You're aware people jump off the Golden Gate bridge fairly often, right? Doesn't surprise me at all that a bunch of people from Vegas or the nearby vicinity would look to the nearest roughly equivalent landmark to do the deed rather than driving all the way to SF, yet I wouldn't expect to read about it.
The only time I recall reading about the frequent GG bridge suicides in the news was indirectly, when whatever authority that manages the bridge was deciding whether to install safety netting along its length to catch people ~ but it was ostensibly reporting about it as though they were weighing any other infrastructure project, since that was obviously a significant capital expense (although obviously everyone knew the suicide angle was still the underlying news hook).
WTF? Where did I say anything about a recurring headline? There was an unsubstantiated claim early in the thread that 275 people have jumped. No credible evidence has been provided to support that number. I provided a link with some (admittedly weak) evidence that the number is much lower.
I don't particularly care if the popular press doesn't report on suicides. The point I'm trying to make is that death is a highly-regulated industry and someone somewhere has the data even if the popular press doesn't. Are you aware that there is a universe out there that exists regardless of whether the popular press is there to cover it?
I'll repeat: do you really think the coroner wouldn't take an interest? Do you really think the actual number of suicides is not being tracked? Go back in the thread and read the Toronto subway exchange if you don't believe me.