Ever Thought of Killing Yourself?

I've just watched a powerful documentary called "The Bridge," a thoughtful and fascinating meditation on suicides that happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge is apparently one of the sites in the world where most people are drawn to jump. In 2004, there were 24 suicides off the bridge. The film is composed of interviews from a multiple perspectives of witnesses, family and friends of the victims and even a victim himself who survived.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muNsj1oUpY

The movie affected me deeply because "The Bridge" became a powerful metaphor of the space between the desire to live and to die. And I was no stranger to suicidal psychosis as someone I knew from film school killed himself and one of my exes tried killing himself three times on me.

"The Bridge" definitely made me think. And if you have every thought of killing yourself, don't miss it...

And thanks to the tip from Levity, here's a graph from the SF Chronicle that shows where on the bridge the +1000 suicide have taken place,  freaky!