i'm getting married in a little over two months. i'm so excited, yet kinda freaked out since it feels like i have so much stuff left to do. kat's coming to the wedding, nick isn't. mitch
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I personally don't like the idea of the fence. I've driven over that bridge a thousand times and adding the fence would be pointless. People would still climb over it and jump or just find another bridge to jump off. I dunno, a fence might stop a few, but really, a fence is just one more thing... Like, they had to walk all the way there, now they have ten more feet to fall from the top of a fence.
There was a documentary on the golden gate bridge and people jumping. I have yet to see it, but the actual filming of it amazes me and also the content of the film. It should be out on DVD by now, have to see if I can track it down..
All I remember about the fence is that it was going to be ten feet tall. It was interesting to learn about some of the statistics surrounding the bridge, but in a very morbid type of way since a relative just died there. One of the facts was about how only 1/3rd of the bridge sits above water so most people end up on land when they jump. The police force over there doesn't have much turnover and they can locate a body fairly fast in water. There has only been one known person that has jumped the bridge and survived.
Like you said, if someone is determined to do something.. they'll do it, no matter what steps they have to take.
either way, I'm sorry to hear of your families loss, it's always tough when you never really knew them. Both my grandparents on my fathers side have passed away and I barely knew either, so it was awkward going to funeral and all. I'm tempted to say it'll be the same way when my own father passes on, ugh...
it's such a different type of mourning when it's for someone you don't know, but you almost feel like you should know.
my grandma's ex-husband passed away three years ago. My parents and I went over to his apartment to go through his things.. it was one of the hardest, saddest things I've ever done in my life. His standard of living was horrible. There was garbage, weird nic-naks from Goodwill, papers, clothes, food, etc. all over his apartment, you couldn't see the floor. He was schizophrenic. Anyways, long story short, it broke my heart to see a relative living this way and I was oblivious my entire life. I felt guilty for not knowing, for not knowing him, and not helping him or seeing him. The grief I felt was so different when my grandfather died two years ago, someone I was close to.
they JUST did a story on the news about that. they were talking about how so many people jump from it all the time, and that they really don't know what to do about it. it might be listed on one of the local news websites, it was probably within the last two weeks that i saw it.
and it is hard to know what to do and how to feel when someone related but you're not very close dies like that.
i don't think i ever met him, but my dad grew up with him most of his life until he got kicked out for being gay. it's sad mostly because i didn't know him, no one knew he was in washington. He was living on the streets, in and out of mental hospitals.
i always find it kind of awkward when someone i don't know or don't know very well gets sick or dies. i don't know how to comfort the people that i DO know who knew them, and i don't know what to say about them. so it's just always one of those uncomfortable awkward situations for me
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There was a documentary on the golden gate bridge and people jumping. I have yet to see it, but the actual filming of it amazes me and also the content of the film. It should be out on DVD by now, have to see if I can track it down..
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Like you said, if someone is determined to do something.. they'll do it, no matter what steps they have to take.
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my grandma's ex-husband passed away three years ago. My parents and I went over to his apartment to go through his things.. it was one of the hardest, saddest things I've ever done in my life. His standard of living was horrible. There was garbage, weird nic-naks from Goodwill, papers, clothes, food, etc. all over his apartment, you couldn't see the floor. He was schizophrenic. Anyways, long story short, it broke my heart to see a relative living this way and I was oblivious my entire life. I felt guilty for not knowing, for not knowing him, and not helping him or seeing him. The grief I felt was so different when my grandfather died two years ago, someone I was close to.
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and it is hard to know what to do and how to feel when someone related but you're not very close dies like that.
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