soaring peace
Greenlighter
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- Oct 17, 2013
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Baldwin was 28 and married with a three-year-old daughter when he decided to take a last walk across the Golden Gate. Two years previously, he had tried and failed to kill himself with an overdose of painkillers and a six pack of beer.
“I needed to do something definitive,” he said. “I did not want to use a gun or hanging because of the fallout that my survivors would have to deal with. That’s why I decided on the bridge. The statistics were pretty good that I would die and never be found.”
Baldwin counted to 10, froze, and counted to 10 again, then vaulted the barrier. Luckily, he was pulled from the water by a Coast Guard.
“I still see my hands coming off the railing,” he told the New Yorker magazine. “I instantly realised that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable – except for having jumped.”
“I needed to do something definitive,” he said. “I did not want to use a gun or hanging because of the fallout that my survivors would have to deal with. That’s why I decided on the bridge. The statistics were pretty good that I would die and never be found.”
Baldwin counted to 10, froze, and counted to 10 again, then vaulted the barrier. Luckily, he was pulled from the water by a Coast Guard.
“I still see my hands coming off the railing,” he told the New Yorker magazine. “I instantly realised that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable – except for having jumped.”