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A '''jumper''', in [[police]] and media parlance, is a person who commits [[suicide]] by jumping from a height. People have jumped, then survived with terrible injuries and permanent disabilities. <ref>http://www.suicide.org/attempted-suicide-horrors.html</ref> A frequent scenario is that the jumper will sit on an elevated highway as police attempt to "talk him down." Potential jumpers are sometimes encouraged to commit suicide by observers, an effect known as "suicide baiting." |
A '''jumper''', in [[police]] and media parlance, is a person who commits [[suicide]] by jumping from a height. People have jumped, then survived with terrible injuries and permanent disabilities. <ref>http://www.suicide.org/attempted-suicide-horrors.html</ref> A frequent scenario is that the jumper will sit on an elevated highway as police attempt to "talk him down." Potential jumpers are sometimes encouraged to commit suicide by observers, an effect known as "suicide baiting."<ref>Suicide Baiting correlational study (Mann, 1981)</ref> |
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==Cases== |
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*In August 2004 in [[Japan]], a man jumped from the top of a high rise, crushing a 20-year-old student to death [http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040808-092032-7090r.htm]. |
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*The [[Golden_Gate_Bridge#Suicides|Golden Gate Bridge]] is a popular spot for jumpers. The 2006 documentary ''[[The Bridge (2006 film)|The Bridge]]'' captured 23 people ending their lives there. On average, two people per month are either seen jumping from the bridge or found in the water. About 50 people a year are talked or pulled down before they jump by police patrols.<ref>Bower, Amanda. [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1197685,00.html "Stopping Jumpers on the Golden Gate"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. 24 May 2006</ref> |
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*On August 28, 2001, a woman in [[Seattle]] was taunted into jumping from the [[Ship Canal Bridge]] by commuters who had been stopped while police tried to talk her down.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3528 |title=Seattle commuters taunt woman threatening suicide leap| publisher=HistoryLink |last=Wilma |first=David| date=2001-09-02| accessdate=2006-08-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Holt | first=Gordy | coauthors= Kamb, Lewis; Ho, Vanessa |title=Commuters' mood turns ugly as suicide try snarls I-5 traffic | publisher=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date=2001-08-29 | url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/36928_jump29.shtml | accessdate=2006-08-07}}</ref> |
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*Urban legend has it that during the [[Great Depression]], many bankers and people who had lost all their money would often plummet to their doom rather than face the result of the stock market crash. This stereotype might have been popularized by radio personality [[Will Rogers]], who once said, "When Wall Street took that tailspin, you had to stand in line to get a window to jump out of, and speculators were selling space for bodies in the East River."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803755_pf.html| author=Farhi, Paul |title=The crash Oct. 29, 1929| publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]'' | date=2008-10-29}}</ref> |
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* In October 2009, the [[Erskine Bridge]], a notorious suicide spot, in [[Renfrewshire]], [[Scotland]] hit the headlines following the suicide pact of two teenage girls. The girls who were members of a residential school in [[Bishopton, Renfrewshire]], walked 3 miles to the bridge where they leapt hand-in-hand to their deaths from the 125ft Bridge into the [[River Clyde]] near [[Glasgow]]. <ref>Spratt, Charlotte. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218214/First-picture-Neve-Lafferty-15-died-jumping-125ft-bridge-suicide-pact-14-year-old-girl-pupil.html "Double tragedy drove 'suicide pact' teenager to jump with friend from 125ft bridge"]. ''[[The Daily Mail]]''. 8 Oct 2009</ref> |
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==In popular culture== |
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[[Third Eye Blind]]'s song, "[[Jumper (song)|Jumper]]" addresses the act of jumping to commit suicide in their 1997 self-titled album. |
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[[Collective Soul]]'s song, "[[The World I Know]]" on their 1995 eponymous album addresses the emotional victory of someone who chooses not to jump. |
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[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]' song, "Harold the Barrel" on their 1971 album [[Nursery Cryme]] is a seemingly amusing look at the topic. |
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In the movie [[Lethal Weapon]], [[Martin Riggs]] tricks a potential jumper into being handcuffed to him and then leaps onto a safety airbag, taking the would-be suicidal down with him to safety. |
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The song Spring, from [[Rammstein]]'s album [[Rosenrot]], is about a man who is forced to jump from a bridge by a crowd, despite the fact that he was on the bridge for the view. |
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The [[Channel 4]] [[soap opera]], ''[[Hollyoaks]]'', broadcast an episode, which featured a suicide pact, similar to the Erskine Bridge girls, which was shown shortly after the tragedy. The episode featured schizophrenic teen [[Barry "Newt" Newton]] jumping into water from a platform at a disused factory with his imaginary friend Rae.<ref>Author unknown. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1219300/Channel-4-broadcast-Hollyoaks-suicide-pact-storyline-despite-similarities-Clyde-teens-deaths.html "Channel 4 broadcast Hollyoaks suicide pact storyline, despite similarities to Clyde teens' deaths"]. ''[[The Daily Mail]]''. 9 Oct 2009</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 15:41, 21 May 2010
A jumper, in police and media parlance, is a person who commits suicide by jumping from a height. People have jumped, then survived with terrible injuries and permanent disabilities. [1] A frequent scenario is that the jumper will sit on an elevated highway as police attempt to "talk him down." Potential jumpers are sometimes encouraged to commit suicide by observers, an effect known as "suicide baiting."[2]
References
- ^ http://www.suicide.org/attempted-suicide-horrors.html
- ^ Suicide Baiting correlational study (Mann, 1981)