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207 Spectacular suicide. A suicide staged in a landscape of outsize proportions, a sublime setting, publicly noted and recorded; a performed suicide where the place overshadows the act itself and the consequences it leaves in its wake. These dramatic deaths constitute a small percentage of the whole but are inversely noted and mythologized. The Golden Gate Bridge is a public, trafficked place, internationally known as a platform for the spectacular. Suicide from the bridge enters its history, the myth and lore of the city. In this outstanding instance, the location absorbs the act itself and its consequences. The place substitutes for the act, overshadowing the person who jumped and his story. ...

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