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**Rasklad** · 08-10-2006, 07:00 AM

Zippy, if this is your audition to be a copywriter, you're hired! Wit with a twist.

Stern's point is not to glorify the act with publicity. A Toronto bridge across the Don Valley attracts suicides like moths to a light and necessitated an expensive apparatus to thwart them. (If I'm correct, it's even more maudlin in that it "catches" them more than dissuades them.) It would be good policy to refuse to release the names of jumpers, but that alone would not deter suicides. Iconic landmarks will always have an attraction for such fatalists.

08-10-2006, 07:00 AM	#5
Rasklad Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 390 Senior Member	Zippy, if this is your audition to be a copywriter, you're hired! Wit with a twist. Stern's point is not to glorify the act with publicity. A Toronto bridge across the Don Valley attracts suicides like moths to a light and necessitated an expensive apparatus to thwart them. (If I'm correct, it's even more maudlin in that it "catches" them more than dissuades them.) It would be good policy to refuse to release the names of jumpers, but that alone would not deter suicides. Iconic landmarks will always have an attraction for such fatalists.
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