Quote Originally Posted by lilpup View Post
Different meanings get attached to individual acts but public suicides carry a message, often of feeling powerless or abandoned. I remember hearing a survivor of a Golden Gate jump saying that he had decided that if a single person stopped to talk to him on the bridge that day or tried to intervene at all he wouldn't have jumped, but no one did.

found this article online yesterday, too
I bet it happens a lot. I heard so many people jump off the Golden Gate bridge that the papers don't even report them. I bet that happens here as well, but because he tied up traffic it got to be more public than folks wanted.