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The beauty of the surroundings conceals what by all accounts is a horrific death. Ken Holmes, a retired Marin County coroner who handled hundreds of suicide victims, likened the impact of someone falling from the bridge to driving a car into a brick wall at full speed. Descending at an estimated 70 mph, the impact of the body on the water almost immediately snaps the ribs, which fold inward and slice the heart, the lungs and the spleen. The vertebrae shatter, the kidneys explode. If by some miracle someone survives the fall — and only a handful have — the body often plunges so deep into the water that it is carried away by the furious current and drowns. Sometimes the bodies are swept toward the Pacific Ocean and never recovered.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:04:46 +0000

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