Teenager becomes fourth in 2 years to jump to death from NYC's Hudson Yards attraction

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A teenage boy jumped to his death at from the Vessel at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards as his horrified family watched, police said. The 15-year-old leaped off the 150-foot-tall structure near W. 33rd Street and 10th Avenue about 12:53 p.m., cops said. The youth’s name was not immediately disclosed.

The teen is the fourth suicide from the structure since it opened two years ago.

On Jan. 11, Franklin Washington, 21, who was wanted for murdering a 55-year-old woman in San Antonio, Texas, jumped to his death.
About three weeks before that, on Dec. 21, Yocheved Gourarie, 24, of Brooklyn, took a fatal plunge.
In February 2020, a 19-year-old New Jersey man also took his life by leaping off the Vessel.

The striking structure opened in March 2019 and quickly became a tourist hot spot and social media sensation.

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/07/teenager-becomes-fourth-in-2-years-to-jump-to-death-from-nycs-hudson-yards-attraction.html

[Mysterian]

1. Damn

15 years old and in front of his family. Damn. Too young to understand the meanness and selfishness of his action.

[Sylvarose]

3. Suicide isn't about meaness or selfishness..

I know it can be seen that way or even feel that way. I've had friends who have attempted it, some very nearly successful. When you are suicidal it's about ending pain. It's about suffering from mental illness and not being able to get past the feeling that there's no other way to stop the hurt. I'm sorry the boy, for whatever reason, didn't get the help he needed.

I say all of this respectfully.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. They ought to put rubber cushioning underneath all around it.

But then it would be like a giant trampoline maybe...