What do you think of trains?
They’re somewhat reliable, travel at high speed and have a braking distance of a couple hundert meter. Sounds pretty lethal to me.
I’ve thought I would go with something like cutting my throat, but I doubt I could do that properly. Just sitting there waiting for a train sounds kinda lame compared to that. But you know where you’re at and you don’t have to do anything for it.
Again I’m not sure if I could stand still once I see the train approaching. Maybe I’d have to be drunk.
Just wanna know your opinion.
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Personally i wouldn’t use a method like that. It’s not fair on the person driving the train, you will traumatise them.
Suicide by jumping in front of a train, in my opinion, is one of the most selfish ways of doing it. While most drivers get some sort of training in this sort of thing, nothing can prepare a driver for that sort of thing. A lot of them get PTSD from witnessing that sort of thing, the worst thing being that you can see the person on the tracks in front of you, but you can’t slow down as quickly as you need to. I know the appeal in this method, I’ve been there myself. But the only reason I held back was because I looked at all of the other commuters and thought, I can’t do this to all of these people. Sure if you want a grand way of going out, all eyes on you, a huge fuss made.. they have to stop the train, get everybody off, call the police, and have people scrape you off the tracks and from the wheels. Especially if someone watches you jump and gets sprayed by your blood. Could you really leave knowing you’d traumatised THAT many people?
I think of trains all the time. I wonder how painful it can be. If I will lose consciousness immediately or not. I don’t care about drivers or other people who has to clean that mess. If society is so fu**ed up that they will not allow you to kill yourself peacefuly then they deserve this.
@entity – how do you know that driveer or some one on the train doesn’t feel as bad as you do? That they also want to exit life with dignity but because of the constraints of the government they can’t. Lets forget about the adults for now. What about any children on that train? What have they done to deserve that? In 10 years time will they be posting here because they are having flash backs of the person who jumped infront of there train. There are easier ways to kill yourself. IMHO jumping in front of trains and other moving veichles is NOT one of them.
Indeed it’s terrible for the witnesses.
But because I’m an asocial and horrible being I could do it anyway. Once I’m dead, what do I care?!
@social-outcast
That’s a good point though. This suicide could easily result in other suicides, which is not the idea. Guess I have to think about that again.
Hey guys, use a coal train. Problem solved. No passengers for you to have fleeting moral issues with. lol Often these days, there’s only one or two people operating the entire thing.