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That's what I thought of.

It is a sort of a societal placebo. Or maybe the subconscious message is "someone cared to put these here for me to prevent me from killing myself, someone cares at least, maybe today is not the day".

In other words I wonder if the color of lights would have been violet or yellow but some "research" had been disseminated that yellow lights are calming and prevent suicide, that combined with the action of someone to install them, then I suspect yellow lights would have worked just as well.



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