This image was shot at Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, which began being demolished in June of 2006. A patient is represented with bandaged wrists, reaching for a piece of jagged glass. In the background is the clock tower of the medical building.

Patients would often improvise methods of suicide which whatever was available to them. Some such items would be broken glass, pharmaceudicals, cleaning solutions, and in a few cases access to the roof.