List of suicide sites

The following is a list of current and historic sites frequently chosen to commit suicide, usually by jumping. Some of the sites listed have installed suicide barriers, and other precautions.

Exact numbers of victims are sometimes difficult to determine, as many jurisdictions and media agencies have ceased collecting statistics and reporting suicides at common sites, in the belief that the reporting may encourage others.

* Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California - over 1,500 suicides
* Beachy Head, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom - about 500 suicides
* Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - over 400 suicides, but none since the completion of the Luminous Veil suicide barrier in 2003
* Eiffel Tower, Paris, France - about 350 suicides
* Coronado Bridge, San Diego, California - more than 200 suicides (1972 - 2000) and many more after [http://www.sdreader.com/php/cityshow.php?id=548]
* Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, Taos, New Mexico
* Aurora Bridge, Seattle, Washington – over 230 suicides since 1932,cite web|author=Priscilla Long |title=Seattle's George Washington Memorial Bridge (Aurora Bridge) is dedicated on February 22, 1932. |url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5418 |work=HistoryLink |date=2003-03-14 |accessdate=2008-01-15] with over 50 from 1997-2007 [cite news|url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/287230_jumpers02.html |title=City hopes to dissuade suicidal jumpers |first=Mike |last=Lewis |publisher="The Seattle Post-Intelligencer" |accessdate=2008-01-15 |date=2006-10-02]
* Jacques Cartier Bridge, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - over 143 suicides. Suicide barriers have been erected in 2003.
* Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia - about 40 suicides
* The Gap, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - about 50 suicides annually
* Empire State Building, New York, New York - at least 32 suicides
* Tyne Bridge, Newcastle Upon Tyne - at least 20 suicides
* Montreal Metro, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - over 129 suicides
* Niagara Falls
* Humber Bridge 195 deaths, 5 people have jumped but survived.
* Mexico City Metro, Mexico City, Mexico
* Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Republic of Ireland
* Vienna U-Bahn, Vienna, Austria
* Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas - 9 (does not include Charles Whitman shootings) ref|Texan
* Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Tampa Bay, Florida - at least 90 suicides
* Aokigahara, Mount Fuji, Japan - averages around 70 suicides per year
* Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, England - 127 between 1974 and 1993 plus many more before and after
* Göltzschtalbrücke, Reichenbach (Vogtland), Germany
* Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Australia - suicide barriers have since been erected.
* Bosphorus Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey - Pedestrians are not allowed on the bridge.
* Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
* Vasterbron, Stockholm, Sweden - number is not known but should exceed a few hundred.
* Grafton Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand - suicide barriers have since been erected

ee also

* Suicide prevention
* Lover's Leap
* Suicide bridgeFoyle and Craigavon Bridges, Londonderry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK - 3-10 per annum

Notes and references

# cite web | author=Shepard, Susan| year=2004| title=Tower tours offer glimpse of UT history| work=The Daily Texan | url=http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2004/08/10/University/Tower.Tours.Offer.Glimpse.Of.Ut.History-701941.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com | accessdate=2006-03-06

ources

* "The Magnet and the Veil", MD Canada, May/June 2003
* [http://www.altmtl.ca/suicide.html Suicide and Death in Montreal]
* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,139728,00.html Man Jumps From Empire State Building, AP, Saturday, November 27, 2004]