History Lesson(s) #33, or: footprints on the fog-wet girders

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Many jumpers wrap suicide notes in plastic and tuck them into their pockets. "Survival of the fittest. Adios—unfit," one seventy-year-old man said in his valedictory; another wrote, "Absolutely no reason except I have a toothache."

--Tad Friend, "Jumpers", The New Yorker, October 2003.