<P> Between 1937 and 2012, an estimated 1,600 bodies were recovered of people who had jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States . The impact from the fall kills 98 percent of people who jump or fall from the bridge . As of 2005, it is estimated that 26 people have survived after jumping . In 2013, 118 potential jumpers were talked down from their attempt and did not jump . </P> <P> A number of measures are in place to discourage people from jumping, including telephone hotlines and patrols by emergency personnel and bridge workers . Although it had previously been considered impractical to build a suicide barrier, in 2014 the Bridge's directors approved a proposal for a net below the bridge's deck, extending out either side, rather than side barriers at the railings as had long been proposed . </P>

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