a bridge too far
It's always a pleasure to find things that combine multiple of my interests. Like, for example, beautiful scenery, clever visual depictions of quantitative data, and doing oneself in.
A perfect example of this is the SF Chronicle's great chart showing just where people have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge over the years.
See the original here.
Unsurprisingly, dead center (so to speak), facing the city, is by far the most popular place to do it. One has to wonder what the people who jumped from the very edges were thinking (probably they wanted to be sure they wouldn't survive...and maybe that they'd be found). And I'm also curious about the people who jumped facing the other direction...given the choice of final view, what must one think to turn one's back on society, literally, and stare into the limitless Pacific?
Or maybe it was just foggy that day.
A perfect example of this is the SF Chronicle's great chart showing just where people have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge over the years.
See the original here.
Unsurprisingly, dead center (so to speak), facing the city, is by far the most popular place to do it. One has to wonder what the people who jumped from the very edges were thinking (probably they wanted to be sure they wouldn't survive...and maybe that they'd be found). And I'm also curious about the people who jumped facing the other direction...given the choice of final view, what must one think to turn one's back on society, literally, and stare into the limitless Pacific?
Or maybe it was just foggy that day.
posted by gloomyjoe at 10:05 PM
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