Famous landmarks turn suicide points

Aokigahara, also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of Trees, is a 35-square-kilometre forest that lies at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Aokigahara is also considered the most haunted place in Japan, where the unsettled ghosts known as yurei howl their suffering into the winds. However, all the scary stories about the forest being haunted and filled with evil energy don’t stop those who desire to end their lives.

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The Gap is an ocean cliff on the South Head peninsula in eastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The area, which faces the Tasman Sea, is located in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay, in the Municipality of Woollahra, near South Head. Although the cliff is a popular visitor destination, it has gained infamy for suicides.

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The West Gate Bridge is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River, just north of its mouth into Port Phillip. Many police reports and statistics have shown in recent years that the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne is one of the most “suicidal” places in Australia. Seventy-four percent of those who jump from the bridge are male, with an average age of thirty-three, while more than seventy percent of them suffered from mental illness.

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The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. This is not just a significant cultural and historical attraction but a suicide destination as well. It might sound unbelievable but many locals and foreigners have jumped off the sacred rock of Athens throughout the years, with the most famous and tragic case being that of Mary Weber, a German governess at the palace of King George I of Greece, who fell in love with a Greek army surgeon named Mihalis Mimikos in the late nineteenth century. This love story ended tragically with Mary Weber jumping from the Acropolis to her death after her father had prohibited her from marrying the love of her life.

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The Van Stadens Bridge is a concrete arch bridge over the Van Stadens River in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It carries road traffic for the N2 national highway. During 2013 the local authorities decided to erect a barrier that runs along the full length of the 198-meter bridge on both sides in an effort to stop jumpers from leaping from the 140-meter-high bridge from which nearly ninety people have jumped to their deaths in the past four decades alone.

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