Suicide by jumping from bridges.
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida, has crisis emergency telephones and a police presence. Although the number of suicides from the bridge has declined, it is too soon to test the statistical significance of the decline.
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David
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Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA.
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