While New Year’s is a time for visiting your loved ones and family…
Magic Kingdom
…that doesn’t mean that hardships and tragedy don’t occur (even in Disney World).
According to the Orlando Sentinel, “a 56-year-old woman jumped from a Walt Disney World ferryboat Monday evening in an apparent suicide attempt.”
Ferryboat Entrance
Although she was rescued from the Seven Seas Lagoon by local authorities, the woman was taken to a local hospital for a mental evaluation and treatment of any injuries. There is no other information on the incident at the moment.
Magic Kingdom Ferry
If you or a loved one have talked about suicide or given signs of distress, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or access their 24/7 online chatting service.
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AJ and team, thank you for telling the news as it is and not sensationalizing for the sake of clicks. I hope someone benefits from your inclusion of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. Thanks for giving us all the Disney news we need and want!
Thank you you for sharing news and in a factual and respectful manner .. it is not all about the number of views . You did not assume hear say was fact or place blame in a tragic situation . By your sharing the suicide hotline I hope is that you helped save lives . Thank you !!!
Agree with Christi’s comment, appreciate your inclusion of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. I hope the Disney guest gets the help that she needs.
Very sad. Hope she gets the help she deserves.
Thank you so much for bring the issue of suicide up & a help line. People need to know this problem is real.
I live by the saying ” Be kind to everyone because you don’t know what they are going through”.
I lost my son to suicide 4 years ago and each day is difficult.
It is very sad that this type of incident happens in such a Happy Place. We hope she does well.
This needs repeating because there are approx. 30+ VETS and Emergency Responders commit suiside EVERY DAY !!!!!
If you or a loved one have talked about suicide or given signs of distress, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or access their 24/7 online chatting service.
Thank you for providing more information regarding this tragic event…after reading the story in the local press about someone “falling” from the upper deck, I knew there had to be more to the story. I have not seen these facts reported in any of the regular press…instead, all sensationalized stories indicating how the family would walk away with millions from Disney and their negligence…
We too have lost a loved one to suicide, so I have great respect for the way you reported this story…you are to be commended for providing the link to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline…Roxanne Erickson, I grieve with you, and while it never goes away, we find that with each passing year we are able to deal with it just a little bit easier…be well my friend…
Roxane Erickson- you are in my prayers and best for the New Year.
AJ and all of the DFB Team,
Thank you for listing the National Suicide Prevention Hot Line number. We all need to care for each other and this shows you guys care.
This is so sad . You just don’t know what people are dealing with and feel like there is no hope. Try and reach out , sometimes by listening it lets them now maybe there is help.
Happy New Year DFB gang, and thanks for all your great content! Unfortunately, this topic isn’t a pleasant one to start off the new year, but it’s a subject that definitely needs to be spoken about more openly and honestly. There is a great stigma that comes with suicide. People are quick to judge, which is disgusting. This woman choosing to try this in such a place, shows you she was desperate, and not thinking clearly. There are many roads that lead someone down this path, but know one truly in their right minds would choose to do this to themselves or their loved ones. Death is the hardest thing we have to cope with in life. When someone passes by their own hands, it’s a whole different, extremely harder ballpark. I’ve seen first hand the affects of this. My best friend lost her father this way 20 years ago, a year after he was involved in an on the job accident, suffered a traumatic brain injury, and subsequent month in a coma. He was a hard working, selfless, loving individual whom endured being locked up in a camp, deprived food, and forced to cut sugarcane for a year in order to be granted permission to leave communist Cuba. He wanted his young children to grow up with opportunity. In 1970, they landed legally in the USA, and never looked back. He chose what he did in the end, because he felt that was better than being a burden. He was so wrong, as he now knows looking down on us from heaven. Roxane, there aren’t adequate words to express my sorrow for you. There are no good explanations. Everyone heals at a different pace, so please don’t pressure yourself, or let others deem at what stage you “should” be. It took 10 years, and a lot of effort on my part, for my best friend to even begin to heal a little, stop putting unrealistic blame on herself etc. This is something one can never get over, but please, try to enjoy and live life as much as you possibly can, if for no other reason than for your son. I’m sure he, and anyone else who have chosen this path, would love nothing more than to undo what they’ve done. If you’ve turned your back on God, please invite him back in!!!!! My best friend did, but opened her heart to him again, and asked for his forgiveness about 14 years ago. It has definitely helped! Speaking of God, for those who believe suicide=hell, that’s nothing but pure rubbish! If God can forgive a mass murderer who asks for his forgiveness, then he most certainly can forgive someone whom felt so desperate that they made this horribly wrong decision! Stay strong Roxane, and if those around you don’t care to try to understand and be there for you, then please find people who will be! There are many support groups out there. Even if it doesn’t sound like something for you, please push yourself to go once, otherwise you’ll never truly know!