Chinese Teenager Ends Her Life By Plunging Off Bridge

TheCruxofBag · #1 ● 02-22-2025, 02:24 AM

China, probably Nanning, Guangxi

A girl live-streamed herself jumping into the river, expressionless and without saying a word.

One viewer commented, “You’re only 18, why do this?” Another wrote, “She’s on the bridge over Yong River.” This suggests the incident took place on Yongjiang Bridge in Nanning, Guangxi, which has become a hotspot for suicides among young people.

Mr.NoCredit · #2 ● 02-22-2025, 03:16 AM

Oh well, so much for this miserable life. Better luck next time.

**WonderMomma** · #3 ● 02-22-2025, 03:19 AM

Almost no hesitation. She was determined.

**kellyhound** · #4 ● 02-22-2025, 05:02 AM

The Yongjiang Bridge has become a popular spot for young people to jump into the river. Since 2023, videos of people jumping into the river in broad daylight have often been circulated online.

A local netizen said, "I often pass by the Yongjiang River, and I see people jumping every few days. I also saw one this morning." Another netizen broke the news that "more than a dozen people jumped off the Yongjiang Bridge last month."

In addition to the Yongjiang Bridge, the Yangtze River Bridges in Yibin, Sichuan and Chongqing also set up "bridge guards" in the summer of 2024 because there were too many people jumping into the river.

In China suicide is the leading cause of death among persons 15–24 years of age and the estimated 49,000 annual suicides in this age group account for 17% of all suicides in the country.

Female rates are 60% higher than male rates and rural rates are three-fold urban rates. Rural population accounts for 65%–70% of the total population in China.

Study shows that the most frequent negative life events in the suicide group were loss of face or social embarrassment (43.0%), economic difficulties (33.3%), and conflict with parents (32.5%); while among the control cases with detailed information about life events, the most frequent negative life events were love or engagement problems (27.8%), economic difficulties (23.3%) and long-term separation from family (15.6%).

There were non-significant differences between cases and controls in the rates of being beaten by spouse, beaten by parents, and beaten or raped by others (in female: 13.0% vs. 0, 10.1% vs. 13.3%, and 7.2% vs. 0.0%; in males: 0.0% vs. 0, 8.9% vs. 2.7%, and 4.4%).

Suicide decedents were much more likely to have experienced severe negative life events—typically intense interpersonal conflicts—in the two days before death: marital disputes (9.6%), disputes with parents (8.8%), disputes with other relatives (5.3%), being beaten by parents (4.4%), intense loss of face or social embarrassment (4.4%), being beaten by spouse (2.6%), and being beaten or raped by others (1.8%).

Mental disorders were more common among suicides than among those who died of injuries (44.7% vs 11.1%).

In the suicide group, the rates of the different psychiatric disorders were as follows: major depressive disorder (28.9%), schizophrenia (6.1%), borderline personality disorder (2.6%), mental retardation (1.8%), alcohol dependence (0.9%), substance abuse (0.9%), substance dependence (0.9%), brief psychotic disorder (0.9%), adjustment disorder (0.9%), mood disorder due to epilepsy (0.9%), psychotic disorder due to epilepsy (0.9%), and unspecified affective disorder (0.9%).

Depressive symptoms of varying intensity and duration were present in 57.0% of the suicide decedents.

After adjusting for gender and location of residence there were no significant differences in the years of formal education, marital status, family financial status, having a pre-school age child or physical health status.

The only demographic factors that remained significantly different between cases and controls were employment status (persons engaged in wage-earning jobs and students had lower risk of suicide than agricultural laborers, housewives and the unemployed) and whether or not the individual was functioning in his or her social role up until the time of death.