Another highly lethal method of suicide is jumping from a great height. Some communities have erected barriers at popular suicide jump sites. So far, research has indicated that erecting a bridge barrier does not result in more jumps from nearby sites. Is there a commensurate increase in deaths by other methods? Evidence is weaker on this point -- some studies have found no increase, one found some evidence for males and none for females, others either did not examine this or did not have enough statistical power to examine this (since jumps do not make up a large proportion of suicides in most areas).
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