Why treat the symptom?

"Officials approve Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier funding

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting an oft-debated suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding package for a net system that would prevent people from jumping to their deaths.

The bridge district's board of directors voted unanimously in favor of the funding for a steel suicide net, which includes $20 million in bridge toll revenue. Federal money will provide the bulk of the remaining funding, though the state is also pledging $7 million."

Which is all they are doing, instead of the underlying issue?  Mental Health.  All that money for suicide barriers for a bridge which has less than 50 jumpers a year.  That money could be used to PREVENT more suicides than 50 if it was used to fund treatment centers for people who need help.

"Report finds US deficit of nearly 100,000 inpatient beds; result is increased homelessness, emergency room overcrowding, and use of jails and prisons as de-facto psychiatric hospitals"

If someone who KNOWS they have a mental health issue thinks the only way to get treatment is to go to jail or prison don't you think they'd look to suicide as a preferred answer?

All the barrier is, is just one more way for the meddlers to say "See we care", when it was through their caring that State Mental Hospitals were closed, Private Mental Treatment Centers were choked  out of the market through more and more burdensome and intrusive regulations, that had no proven nor documented need.

But the same people who are bringing you the "Suicide Barrier" are the one who brought those regulations.