A Lesson from 29 Golden Gate Suicide Attempts

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash

This past week a statistic caught my eye that I found exceptionally profound. It had to do with suicide attempts made by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Perhaps the stat was made more meaningful by my having crossed the Golden Gate a few times when my son and daughter were living out…