title: Suicide and the parking garage.
abstract: Each year over one million Americans attempt suicide, and over 30,000 succeed. One of the most popular and successful, methods of suicide is jumping, the authors point out, and one of the most widely-used venues for jumping are parking garages. Especially vulnerable to such suicide attempts are the parking structures of hospitals, they report, because it has been found that most persons who jump to their death had been previously treated for a mental health condition. (One hospital in Massachusetts recently reported that a man jumped or fell from the second floor of one of its parking decks, the second such incident at one of its garages in five years.) In this article the authors discuss how parking professionals can help prevent suicide from happening and how to handle this situation if it does occur in your garage.
authors.affiliation: Republic Parking System, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Isaiah
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mouw
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Troth
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D010299:Parking Facilities; D013405:Suicide; D014481:United States