Golden Gate Bridge Suicides Docu Stirs Controversy

diggnation reports: "For an entire year the cameras rolled, capturing death amid the eerie fog and shifting tides. One by one, filmmaker Eric Steel documented the final moments of nearly two dozen despondent men and women, and the agonizing, four-second fall after they leaped off the Golden Gate Bridge...."

It's difficult to draw the line where suicide is concerned. Emotions, understandably, causes invectives to be hurled instead of clear discussions of issues involved. This topic has always been divisive -- recently rendered manifest by the Terri Schiavo experience -- polarizing a nation, and the rest of the world into camps that are perhaps as "confused" as any person contemplating taking one's life. Thus, accusations like "snuff film" and "unethical" are being thrown around without pause for thought. I am almost sure this documentary film will not be shown here in our country (Philippines).

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