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   (NEWSER) – Heartbreak for the transit official who spearheaded   
   efforts to install a suicide barrier at the Golden Gate Bridge:   
   His own grandson has become the latest person to leap to his   
   death from the bridge. John Moylan, 86, was the director of the   
   Golden Gate Bridge Transit District when the prevention plan was   
   approved in 2008, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.   
      
   Suicides at the bridge hit a record high last year, but funding   
   problems have stalled the installation of a suicide net.   
      
   Moylan, who previously lost a grandnephew to suicide, told a   
   board meeting last fall that "my family has been touched by it,   
   and I'll tell you what, it tears a family apart." The body of   
   his 27-year-old grandson, Sean, was recovered from the water   
   after he jumped last Thursday.   
      
   Moylan tells the Marin Independent Journal that his grandson's   
   death is "heartbreaking," but he doesn't blame it on the bridge   
   or the lack of a barrier. "The poor kid was a very troubled   
   young man," he says. "He was generous and good natured, but he   
   just had that demon in there.   
      
   There is no blame in this at all. It's not the bridge's fault,   
   it's not anybody's fault." The bridge board meets later this   
   month to discuss funding for the $68 million suicide-prevention   
   project, and while "Sean will be thought about at the next board   
   meeting ... we can't lay it on the bridge," Moylan adds. "It's   
   just that the bridge seems to get more publicity."   
      
   http://www.newser.com/story/188272/grandson-of-sf-suicide-net-   
   advocate-jumps-to-death.html   
      
       
      
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