Politcally incorrect rant - suicidal twats

Today has been the second time in less than 2 weeks that my train journey has been disrupted by somebody trying to kill themselves by jumping onto the tracks. This causes huge delays and I've wound up having to go on an overcrowded bus to get to my destination.

Why can't these suicidal types be more considerate? Instead of inconveniencing hundreds of other people by disrupting the rail network, why not commit suicide without disrupting the lives of others?
FFS, top yourself in the privacy of your own home, jump of a tall building, or if you're really keen on getting mowed down by a train, at least find another, less frequented line to disrupt.

Tax time over there?

Yeah, I hate when they do that. You want to take yourself out of the game? It's a free country. But don't fuck it up for those who still want to play. Shoot them off the platform and do everyone a favor.

I used to completely agree with Camren's sentiments, but someone once pointed out the following to me:-

1) Rush hour is often chosen as it allows people to do it on the way to or from work in the normal course of their day without acting out of character to their family; and

2) Sometimes they just don't give a shit about what strangers are gonna think about them after they're dead!

Well as far as I know both suicidals actually survived. So it seems their death-defying suicide stunt is probably a 'plea for help' than a genuine attempt to die.

Or they're not very good at that, either.

So both of them had the skill and talent to know how to jump infront of a train and avoid death eh?

It was actually on the Underground. Although the electricity running through those tracks would fry you in an instant, the considerate folk at the Underground made plenty of space between the actual track and the floor beneath it, so if someone did manage to fall in, they would be slumped safely beneath the live tracks. Unless they poppped their heads up to take a peak while a train was approaching...

Round here we've got this real tall bridge... roughly 2500 people jumped, 4 survived. They should fly over to San Francisco and jump from there. Less messy, no one notices, and there's helpful signs telling you not to jump, and that there is hope. Plus, they'll bring in a few tourism dollars before they off themselves, which kinda rocks.

Ooh, I just heard an announcement on the radio about the piccadilly lines being back to service after an attempted suicide!

It's like you actually exist!

That's one of the main reasons I'm glad I work from home now...

And if this suicide survived, I'd say he or she should be taken personally to apologise to every train driver that's had a jumper this year, to make them understand what selfish bastards they are to fuck someone else's life up like that.

I'm so useless!

I'm a total failure at everything!

I can't even commit suicide right!

I think I'll just go kill myself!

Oh, wait, that wouldn't work...

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Fuckers. I need to use it now

Involving someone else in your suicide is deeply selfish unless that person wants to help you.

I can't imagine how much it must haunt the driver of the train/bus/car you throw yourself under if that's the method you choose.

Why don't they just keep the train going (after all if the train goes over them they're dead, nothing can be done, no point in stopping just to look at a corpse), and then have a crew immediately come out to remove the body parts and hose off the blood, letting other trains come past. Stations could keep a supply of body bags on hand to enable speedy line clearing in a tasteful manner, whenever someone suicides.

I mean it's not like the scene has to be forensically examined or anything - the cause of death is pretty fucking obvious.

Selfish bastards. Use a freight train, it'll cut you in half just as quick without all the fuss to bystanders.

Talking about the engineers dealing with it reminds me of Dave destroying his truck to keep from hitting an idiot woman with a carload of kids who whipped in front of him and shut it down immediately for a left hand turn on a snow and ice covered road. He dodged the dumb broad, but he had nightmares about what if he'd not managed to swerve and hit the culvert instead of the assend of her car. He himself was badly hurt and scarred from barbed wire in an accident as a baby that his dad was killed in.

Another instance dealt with a driver who was intentionally hit at 80+ head on in his cabover. The car went under his truck and out the back and he said when he shook off the impact and hobbled back to the lady and touched her shoulder, it was like touching jello he said. Messed with his head for a long time.
There were Coors cans all over the road from his sleeper, he was bringing some cases back because Coors wasn't nationwide at that point.
This is one of the reasons Coors went national, they were given an option by the feds, do it or be limited further from distribution.

If you're going to off yourself, please leave me out of it.

Paperwork, reports, red tape. has to be by the book, as is proper. They're not a deer or cow.

The problem isn't people killing themselves this way, it's the fact that everyone else is forced to disrupt their day and pay them the notice they wanted. So stop doing that. Don't even slow down. Leave the blood stains where they land, to show exactly how much everyone cares about your dramatic exit.

Jumpers don't even rate that high. At least a deer or cow wanted to live. If you don't value your life, why should anyone else give a shit how you chose to end it?

I was in a train last year when a bag of bones rattled past, underneath. We had a delay of about 3 hours. The trains are delayed until the first police investigation is done and the train has been cleaned, which is a good thing, imho. I don't particularly fancy seeing a train pull into the station with guts smeared all over it and then having to push some brain tissue aside to be able to open the door.

That, and they have to see if the train wasn't damaged, of course. While there's probably not much chance of that, it wouldn't be much fun if a suicide caused a trainwreck.

I do agree about jumpers. Bloody inconsiderate of them. That's why they invented pills and mountains, isn't it? At least that would be my choice. Jumping off a building is too risky, you might hit someone. That said, pills also have a fairly decent survival rate Mountains, then.

I don't disagree. Laws and such though.

But then nobody might notice that you'd died.

What we need are Futurama suicide booths tied to a town square marquee display and a next-of-kin singing telegram service.

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Well said.

I second the call for freely accessible Futurama suicide booths!

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Send anyone who survives a bill for all the inconvenience. There is no excuse for that stupidity. I have no sympathy for someone so fucking selfish and cowardly they feel the need to turn someone into an unwilling killer, who will be forced to deal with the aftermath of their bullshit for the rest of their lives.

Not to mention traumatizing anyone riding the train..kids included..on their way out.

Exactly. Every time I see a goth kid with razor marks on his wrist, I feel like telling him: "If you were serious instead of a fuckin' little crybaby, you'd cut vertically and not horizontally". Of course I don't say it, but I feel like it.