The city said there were nine incidents of suicide, attempted suicide or sudden death at the High Level Bridge between 2008 and 2012. EDMONTON — An official with the Canadian Mental Health Association is hoping strange, human-shaped figures that were placed on an Edmonton bridge’s controversial suicide prevention barriers spark a discussion about mental health. Challborn said that whoever placed the sculptures on the bridge on Sunday went to a lot of work. The sculptures initially shocked Dan Klemke, an advocate for the barriers whose wife committed suicide from the bridge in 2013. A short film, “The High Level Bridge,” was an official selection at numerous film festivals, including Sundance and Toronto in 2010 and 2011, and dealt with suicide.

Source: National Post August 09, 2016 15:16 UTC