Denison Forum
Dr. Jim Denison
Do you sometimes wonder if your life can make a real difference in a world like ours? If so, meet Kevin Briggs, a former California highway patrol officer who now serves in a different capacity: stopping people from dying by suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge.
When he finds someone preparing to jump from the bridge to their death, Briggs usually starts a conversation with them by asking how they are doing and then asking about their plans for the following day. If they don’t have such plans, he tries to make plans with them, inviting them to come back to the bridge if their plan does not work out at the end of the day. With this approach, he has kept more than two hundred people from taking their lives.
As one example, he spent sixty minutes with a man named Kevin Berthia convincing him to climb back over a rail on the bridge. Kevin went on to marry and have multiple children. Briggs has earned the nickname “Guardian of the Golden Gate” for his life-saving efforts. More Here
