I was floored when I met some students from NYU who explained they've installed nets in the library because there have been so many suicides from people jumping.

Yikes.

Not exactly how I remember it.. but yeah. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nyu-bobst-library-suicides-al...

NYU is also more vertical than most universities in the US. How many university buildings in the US are 12 floors or higher?

I don't care if the building 100 floors - the problem is not the height of the building. The problem is that young people in the US who are clearly privileged enough to attend a very prestigious university are driven to suicide.

Tall structures everywhere are suicide magnets because they are fairly accessible and the means of death is easy and fairly certain. It’s why you can’t build a large bridge with a pedestrian walkway without some kind of safety netting, and that’s globally.

Countries by suicides per 100,000 population:

US: 14.5 UK: 6.9 Germany: 8.3

The problem IS NOT tall structures. The problem is something about US society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

> the problem is not tall structures

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/countries

The data shows that the USA has way more tall buildings than most of Europe, by more than an order of magnitude.

Disclaimer: I don’t agree they’re a leading cause, rather an accessory to a suicide premeditated by various health/societal factors.

I remember when the exact same thing was used to berate Apple for working with Foxconn.

Looking at the date of the article, they were almost contemporary.

Youth suicide in the US has been in the press a lot lately but it's not really one of those things that's really bad or getting worse. It's less frequent than it was years ago, and less frequent than in many OECD countries. That sets it apart from the overall picture which shows the US to be worse than all other advanced countries and rapidly getting worse.