The Boston City Council yesterday agreed to study requiring owners of high-rise parking garages to install railings and take other measures to prevent people from throwing themselves off the higher levels.

City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Downtown, Chinatown) proposed a hearing on "security at high-rise garages in the City of Boston," following the recent death by suicide at a Chinatown garage, which he said followed several other suicides in recent years at Boston parking garages.

No councilor objected to the basic idea, but Flynn and Councilor Sharon Durkan (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, West End, Mission Hill) got into an angry volley about how to refer to suicides, after Flynn referred to people who had "committed suicide" at the garages, which Durkan felt was trigg

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