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This is happening way too often.

the world is in a shit place right now.. RIP....

I thought journalists had an unwritten rule not to report on suicides

It’s the Post. Not journalists.

This is not a rule. A journalist friend of mine told me that the general rule of thumb is if a person committed suicide at home, they won’t report on it. If it’s in a public place like this, it’s fair game and hard to cover up. People watched and filmed I imagine

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How often has this happened in the last year?

I think we’ve had 3’ish each month? This one is like the 5th since sept 1, I believe.

Specifically jumpers. It could also be that they were never reported as much, they used to only publicize them if they injured or hurt someone else on their way down.

> I think we’ve had 3’ish each month?

At least 2 just in midtown alone over the last few weeks

Only 26 years old 😞

NYC has among the lowest suicide rates in the country because suicide with a (legal) gun is the most reliable method and legal guns are hard to come by around here.

Just because you can recall a number of recent suicides doesn't mean they're particularly common. It's like this sub keeps forgetting that NYC's population is almost 9 million and that "per capita" is a thing.

This is correct, but it's less about it being "fair game" and more about the fact that it happened in public and impacted others, making it news.

Well glad I'm mistaken then.

if someone is so used to feeling unheard and unseen about their struggles with mental health at the height of a national mental health crisis, that this is the only way they can imagine being seen for as long as they live, that's a not a problem with the individual

Any known info as to why she did it?

Somehow this story gets worse. It may not have been suicide at all, and may have been an ACCIDENT. Oh my god.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/woman-who-plunged-from-times-square-rooftop-bar-couldve-fallen/

I’m with you feels like this is happening way too often these days and more so than in the past.

I met a crime scene investigator once and he said any time media shows up to the scene of a death and he says “suicide” they just leave because it’s not newsworthy unless it’s something public like this. Even then, people kill themselves in parks all the time and it doesn’t make the news.

What’s sad is some people will leave notes about how they want the media to report on their suicide, he said. But their suicide at home isn’t newsworthy. Just shows how irrational people often are when they do it.

> If it’s in a public place like this, it’s fair game and hard to cover up.

Eh, when I lived in DC there were weekly suicides on the metro and the Post would never report them as a policy.

Video anyone ?

Still sorta reads like a suicide

Oh god yes hit us with that “sTaTisTicAlLy sPEaKinG NYC iS aT An aLL TiMe LoW”

That may be true but from the statistics I’ve seen, suicide has been up since the beginning of Covid