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> - keywords:: [[Golden Gate Bridge]], [[San Francisco]], [[Suicide]]
> - location:: [[Golden Gate Bridge]], [[San Francisco]], [[California]]
> - place:: [[San Francisco]]
> - period:: [[1930s]], [[1940s]], [[1950s]], [[1960s]], [[1970s]], [[1980s]], [[1990s]], [[2000s]], [[2010s]], [[2020s]]
- [i] related:: [[increase in Golden Gate Bridge jumpers surviving since 2010]]
- [b] [[swan2022DoctorsStudiedMore|Swan, R. (2022, March 22). Doctors studied more than 2 decades of Golden Gate Bridge jumps. Their research shows why some manage to survive]]
- ["] The impact of hitting the water is the equivalent force of a highway car crash on the body (75 mph, 120 km/h). The surface of the water is like cement.
- ["] One of the major research challenges for studying bridge-related suicides is the small sample size. In a study since 2000, MarinHealth Medical Center and chair of the Department of Surgery has concluded:
- survivors were appromixately 9 years younger than those who died
- survivors had "significantly milder injuries"
- ["] Major trauma to the body shown among fatalities
- leading cause of death is cardiovascular (87.5% of fatalities)
- 66.7% of deceased suffered intercranial injuries
- approximately half had bruised lungs