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Usually a place can be famous because it has beautiful scenery. But what if a place is famous because of the high number of suicides? Regardless of sin or not from suicide, let's discuss a number of places in this world that became a favorite location for suicide. Here's a list of places that used to be the location of suicide.
10. Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida
Opened to the public in 1987, the bridge that was built over Tampa Bay became a beautiful bridge connecting St. Petersburg is in Pinellas County with Terra Ceia in Manatee County, Florida. The bridge stretches along 6,668 km and becomes the first place we will discuss in the list of world famous suicides.
From since it was built until 2009, at least 207 people have committed suicide by jumping off the bridge. A total of 34 people with luck can still survive after jumping from a height of 53 meters. In 1999, to reduce the number of suicides, added a number of officers to guard around the bridge.
9. Beachy Head, UK
It has amazing views, Beachy Head's reputation must be damaged by the number of people who commit suicide there. Beachy Head is a high limestone cliff located in East Sussex, England. Very close to Eastbourne, this cliff has a height of about 160 km above sea level.
Beautiful but lethal, this is the right expression pinned for Beachy Head. A year about 20 people end their lives by jumping off the cliff. In addition to jumping, sometimes there is a suicide by driving the car toward the cliff. There was a married couple Neil and Kazumi Puttick who committed suicide at Beachy Head in 2009. They committed suicide because they were unable to lose their son, Sam, who died of meningitis.
8. The Gap, Australia
When in England there is Beachy Head, then in Australia there is The Gap. This cliff located at south of Sydney Harbor. Under the cliff of The Gap there is a torrent of waves from the Pacific Ocean. Another similarity The Beach with Gap Beachy Head in addition to the beautiful scenery is this place together became a very popular place of suicide in the world, especially Sydney.
According to estimates, as many as 50 people each year come to The Gap to commit suicide. Not only from Sydney, even other cities around Sydney also make The Gap a place to commit suicide. One of Australia's famous newscasters, Charmaine Dragun committed suicide on this cliff.
7. Niagara Falls, America
Between Canada and America separated by a waterfall, Niagara. Waterfall is very famous that never deserted visitors. This waterfall has a height of about 50 meters with a tremendous flow of water. Although Niagara Falls is a favorite tourist attraction in America, this place stores a number of dark stories where many people commit suicide there.
The rushing waters make people can drift so quickly jumping down the waterfall. Between 1856 and 1995 there were as many as 2,780 people declared dead after jumping down Niagara Falls. Although most likely people who jumped into Niagara Falls would die, there are some people who survived like Annie Edson Taylor. Annie, who was climbing a barrel, was swept up and down.
6. London Underground, UK
London has a fairly popular transportation in the world, it is "London Underground". This subway has been operating since the 19th century and has 270 stations with 11 lines and 402 km of tracks. Its amazing ,But who would have thought that place became a favorite place of people to commit suicide.
It has heavy traffic, is traversed by high-speed trains, and easy access makes many people in London try to end their lives there. Stasuin King's Cross St. Pancras where the suicide rate is very high. Throughout 2001 and 2011, the number of death at the station reached 145 people.
5. Corinth Canal, Greece
After Niagara Falls on the border of America and Canada, now a bridge in San Francisco is also used by some people who can not stand the misery of his life to commit suicide. The bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge. This very iconic bridge becomes the unexpected place people used as a place of suicide.
Since 1995, the city government of San Francisco is trying hard to restore the name of the Golden Gate Bridge. But, the effort is not working. The death toll at the Golden Gate Bridge is close to 1,600. In 2013 as many as 118 suicide plans successfully thwarted. But previously there have been 46 people who committed suicide on the bridge
3. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
In the top three most famous suicide places in the world are the Aokigahara Forests. The forest in the Northwest of Mount Fuji has other names such as Kuroi Jukai, Black Sea of Trees and Suicide Forest. This forest itself becomes one of the most scary places in Japan.
Surprisingly, despite being famous for a haunted place and as a place of suicide, the Aokigahara Forest still attracts tourists. It seems that tourists are curious why this forest can be used as a place of suicide. Not only as a place of suicide, many people are lost in the forest and can not come back. In 2010 it is estimated that more than 200 people committed suicide in Aokigahara. If you are there, do not be surprised if someday find the corpses of people.
2. Mount Mihara, Japan
In addition to the Aikogahara Forest, Japan still has one more place famous as a place of suicide. The place is Mount Mihara. Mount Mihara is an active volcano, located on a small island, Izu Oshima, about 968 km south of Tokyo. Mount Mihara was once seen in the movie The Return of Godzilla and Ring.
Mihara Mountain is known to be a place of suicide when preceded by the death of a student Kiyoko Matsumoto. He jumped into the crater because he could not get along with the woman he had be love. Very similar to the scenes that existed in the Ring movie 1998 where the main character jumped into the crater of Mount Mihara.
1. Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing
In addition to being known as one of the industrialized countries, China is known as one of the most densely populated countries on earth. The high population in China seems to be high with suicide rates. And, the favorite spot to commit suicide in China is the Yangtze River Bridge.
Nanjing City is a city where you can find this bridge. The city is also the largest contributor to the city's most frequent number of suicides. According to estimates, every 2 minutes there is someone who attempted to commit suicide in China. The Yangtze River Bridge has a height of about 70 meters above the river. The bridge was completed in 1968 and 40 years later, as many as 2,000 deaths occurred on the bridge.
