One ray of sunshine in the Journal's article is that our city's suicide rate is about half that of the rest of the country's rate. Also noteworthy: you can now delete "existence" from that famous category of stuff white people like, because the majority of all suicides in the city are committed by the white man. Sep 7, PM. Facebook Twitter Reddit Email.
Wall Street Journal's graphic on suicide attempts. NYC news never sleeps. The first suicide at the Vessel happened in February last year. It was closed in January after two people killed themselves in the space of a month. It reopened in May. The operating company did not raise its chest-high barriers before reopening, as community leaders and suicide-prevention researchers had requested. Lowell Kern, chairman of community board 4, a local government body, told the New York Times he called for such design changes after the first suicide.
Toronto's Bloor Viaduct provides another relevant example of one possible solution. Hundreds of people had died by suicide at the viaduct, so local leaders in commissioned the installation of the Luminous Veil -- a barrier made up of thin, steel rods that also light up in bright colors. Mark Sinyor, a psychiatrist and suicide prevention expert at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, studied the impact of the barrier in and again in and uncovered an unusual result.
As expected, the Luminous Veil worked as designed and stopped suicides at the Bloor Viaduct. However, the study found that in the first few years after the barrier was installed the rate of deaths by jumping across Toronto remained unchanged, suggesting the suicides simply moved elsewhere. However, the study found that in the long-term, suicides by jumping had declined across the city with no associated increase in suicide by other means.
Taken together, the studies show that preventing suicide is about more than just a barrier at a single location, Sinyor told CNN. In particular, he criticized the media coverage at the time that pushed the harmful myth that suicidal people aren't worth saving.
And people who are struggling should seek help, because help is out there. The Vessel has a deeper issue. Safe public messaging was a key part of the Vessel's plan when it reopened in May with new safety measures. Last week's tragedy showed the flaw in that plan without a physical barrier.
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