Will Golden Gate Get Suicide Barriers?: ; Public Meetings Begin Today On Four Designs

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SAN FRANCISCO - Olivia Crowther left her London flat last month to become a statistic in San Francisco.

The 23-year-old college graduate surfed suicide Web sites, bought a plane ticket for California and, at 9:24 a.m. on June 25, leapt to her death off the Golden Gate Bridge, at light pole No. 105.

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Will Golden Gate Get Suicide Barriers?: ; Public Meetings Begin Today On Four Designs

Her body was retrieved from the water nine minutes later - one of the latest among at least 1,300 suicides at the majestic span since it opened in 1937.

The debate over what to do about the deaths goes back nearly as far, though the pace is quickening this week with public meetings over proposals to prevent such tr...

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