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General (or Multiple Means)

HealthDay News. Doctors Could Play a Part in Preventing Suicides. US News and World Report. September 3, 2008.
     Study suggests restricting access to firearms for at-risk patients saves lives.

Fust, L. Suzanne. A will to suicide: discourage a way. Star Tribune. July 18, 2008.

    Dispels the myth that suicide is not preventable.

Anderson, Scott. The urge to end it all. New York Times. July 6, 2008.

    An in-depth piece about the importance of means restriction in suicide prevention.

Bridge Barriers

Hyun-jung B. No more suicidal bridges over Han River, says Seoul. The Korea Herald. September 29, 2009.

 The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters Department will introduce a new safety system on the bridges.
The $10.8 million project involves detailed guidelines on the prevention, urgent responses and post-factum measures following a suicide attempt.

O'Brien T. Gone. San Francisco Magazine. December 2008.

    A profile of three teenagers who completed suicide jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and the impact of their decision on those they left behind.

Cabanatuan M. Bridge directors vote for net to deter suicides. San Francisco Chronicle. October 11, 2008.

    The Board of Directors voted 14-to-1 to install the stainless-steel net system, which would be placed 20 feet below the deck, and would collapse around anyone who jumped into it, making it difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to leap to their death.

Vick K. The Golden Gate: A Bridge Too Deadly? Washington Post. March 3, 2008.

   After longtime resistance, Bay Area may follow other efforts to prevent suicides at landmarks.

Guthmann E, Hamlin J, Weiss M, Koopman J, Zinko C, King J and Benson H. Lethal Beauty. San Francisco Chronicle. Oct 31-Nov 5, 2005.

   One thousand, two hundred eighteen dead. The lives of families devastated. Sixty-eight years of debate about a suicide barrier. Lethal Beauty is a seven-part series looking at the darker side of the Golden Gate Bridge. The conclusion is inescapable: A suicide barrier would prevent deaths. The stories this week provide the context, background, meaning and a human dimension for the decisions that will follow.

Friend T. Jumpers: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge. The New Yorker. October 13, 2003.

   On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over. “I still see my hands coming off the railing,” he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”