Suicides
Three people have committed suicide by leaping from the Space Needle's observation platform. Each of these events occurred in the 1970s. Two of them jumped in 1974, before a "safety grid" was installed around the platform. The third suicide took place four years later, in 1978. Others have occasionally made it through the safety grid, but police negotiators have coaxed them to safety.
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Famous quotes containing the word suicides:
“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“Don’t look now, God, we’re all right.
All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;
the Dalmatians, our turnip, our spotted parasite
snoozles in her chair.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Most suicides are committed with a knife and fork.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.