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[QUOTE=FartinMowler;242354]Here in Toronto it was popular to jump off the bloor bridge

In June 1997, then President of East York Chapter Al Birney made a motion at our Annual General Meeting to take action against bridge suicides, citing the rising deaths at Toronto's Bloor St. Viaduct. Members of local chapters had lost three sons and one daughter at the bridge. The motion was unanimously adopted by chapter presidents, and Birney was invited to form the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario Bridge Committee. For three years, the Bridge Committee, led by Birney as Chairman and Michael McCamus as Spokesperson, has held meetings with 58 City Councillors and given numerous presentations at City Hall and in the community to advocate a suicide prevention fence. On average, one person jumps from the bridge every 22 days.

Research at similar "suicide magnets," including the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, and Washington's Duke Ellington Bridge, demonstrates that deterrent barriers prevent impulsive jumps, save lives, and protect bystanders travelling underneath the monuments. In July 1998, the Regional Coroner of Toronto, Dr. William Lucas, and the jury of the inquest into the death of choirboy Kenneth Au-Yeung recommended a barrier fence for the Bloor Viaduct. In July and October 1998, City Council twice unanimously approved "The Luminous Veil," the winning entry to the City's 1998 National Design Competition for safe, artistic, and heritage-sensitive barriers.

However, the building of the barrier was complicated by the need to maintain annual safety inspections of the bridge's second, lower deck on which run the subway trains. Construction was postponed many months, during which the price of labour and materials nearly doubled, and new conditions were added to the building contract. The Veil proposes a five-metre tall safety screen of 10,000 thin stainless steel rods, and in December, the barrier won Canadian Architect magazine's 1999 Award of Excellence. In February 2000, Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman successfully urged City Councillors to reaffirm their support for the winning barrier design, and to commit $2.5 Million to its construction.

On January 16, 2001, a 24-year-old University of Toronto student walked to Bloor Street's Prince Edward Viaduct, and leapt to his death. Since 1919, the landmark bridge has attracted over 400 suicides, a world record second only to Golden Gate Bridge.

On January 18, the Bloor Viaduct Project Steering Committee's chair Ellis Kirkland announced a $3.5 million sponsorship plan to complete the long-delayed $6 million Luminous Veil, an award- winning barrier design. A year earlier, city council had threatened to cancel the Veil, after it exceeded its $2.5-million budget. Mayor Mel Lastman brokered a compromise, giving volunteers one year to "raise the balance of funds."

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or people jump in front of the moving subway.... :/  I'm afraid of hieghts and don't want to splatter on a subway so I think I will just get old  :) [/img][/QUOTE]

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Aug 31st, 2004 02:45 PM

Matt Harty

watch your back * B O O H *

Aug 31st, 2004 02:11 PM

Snake Basket

Once more with feeling.

Aug 31st, 2004 06:42 AM

Maybe we can arrange for him to have a little 'accident'.

Aug 30th, 2004 09:18 PM

Helm

I don't like him. Let's kill him.

Aug 30th, 2004 08:53 PM

ziggytrix

Don't bring dead threads back to life chickenfucker

Aug 30th, 2004 05:26 PM

DrunkChicken

Heh

Not quite dead yet?

Jul 26th, 2004 04:00 PM

kellychaos

The tenth one lived.

...

Jul 26th, 2004 10:18 AM

Anonymous

9 out of 10 doctors recommend it!

Jul 26th, 2004 08:41 AM

Carnivore

For anybody seriously considering suicide, the method most medical professionals would choose is narcotic overdose. You just fall asleep and stop breathing. Utterly painless. Make sure, however, that nobody finds you. Narcan reverses the effects in less than a minute, typically. If you are discovered in time, you will most likely be resuscitated successfully.

Jul 26th, 2004 04:08 AM

Dole

Quote:

If you want to kill yourself, do it- but you have to be prepared for the consequences of your actions.

Erm...like death.

Jul 25th, 2004 11:59 PM

liquidstatik

Quote:

Originally Posted by WaterLilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by FS

That reminds me of button candy. You know, the kind that you peel off the strip of paper and all the freaks used to lace with LSD for the kiddies?

Jul 25th, 2004 11:56 PM

King Hadas

:/ :/ :/ :/

Jul 25th, 2004 06:08 PM

WaterLilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by FS

That reminds me of button candy. You know, the kind that you peel off the strip of paper and all the freaks used to lace with LSD for the kiddies?

Jul 25th, 2004 05:56 PM

ArrowX

Jul 25th, 2004 05:03 PM

Jul 25th, 2004 12:19 PM

Anonymous

Last time I committed suicide I woke up on a morgue slab with total amnesia and a flying skull chattering in my ear constantly.

Picked up a couple of demon babes though.

Jul 25th, 2004 10:34 AM

darkvare

i got it make friends with the gun, and then shot you, it will be like she did you a favor, no?

Jul 24th, 2004 11:06 PM

MLE

Jul 24th, 2004 10:35 PM

Anonymous

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sethomas

You can't "repeat as necessary" if you remain alive without the capabilities of thought do continue firing. Which happens to be plausible with a shot to the temple.

Hey, I've merely laid the groundwork, here. If people can't follow my instructions, well then maybe they shouldn't be killin' themselves.

Jul 24th, 2004 08:02 PM

PILLOWFIGHT

suicide makes you go to heaven!!

so it dosnet matter

Jul 24th, 2004 12:30 PM

kellychaos

Nobody really knows that. You could be comatose on the outside whilst your brain is "squirming like a toad" on the inside.

Jul 23rd, 2004 11:33 PM

Perndog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sethomas

You can't "repeat as necessary" if you remain alive without the capabilities of thought do continue firing. Which happens to be plausible with a shot to the temple.

However, if you've rendered yourself mentally incapable of pulling the trigger again, I'd wager you've solved your depression problem, too.

Jul 23rd, 2004 10:12 PM

MLE

i got the joke the first time :hat

Jul 23rd, 2004 10:10 PM

Sethomas

You can't "repeat as necessary" if you remain alive without the capabilities of thought do continue firing. Which happens to be plausible with a shot to the temple.

Jul 23rd, 2004 09:34 PM

MLE

i got the joke the first time :hat

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