The Golden Gate’s view leads the eye west, all the way to the sunset. It’s a metaphor for life, which also leads inevitably to a dark end. Unless you buy heaven. Fortunately, there’s no third choice. I mean, if the Golden Gate led to living forever, consider the mess.
—Note recovered in the Pacific, west of the Golden Gate Bridge, in 1995, associated with human remains believed to have been the bridge’s one thousandth suicide