This is an odd one, stenciled on the side of a transformer box overlooking the reservoir. It's not, so far as I know, an obvious suicide spot: no tall buildings or bridges or cliffs, and if one was to clamber over the chain mesh fencing round the reservoir, then I'd have thought one would have to work fairly hard to drown oneself in the green and brackish still water. Nor is it an obvious place for the depressed and despondent to be walking, anyway. I did once, and tragically, see a heron that had been hit by a car on that part of the roadway - but it's not as though one could easily head off wandering into freeway traffic around here. So I guess it's a generalist statement, and of course one agrees with its sentiments - but somehow it's not very uplifting or consolatory.
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