Not actually discussing methods here so I dont think it contravene’s the rules, just asking for opinions on this.
This seems to be the one most people find a “dishonourable” way to go. What’s gonna be done to the driver, engineer and family, yet thousands of people do it every year. It’s one of the one’s that was always on my mind tbh, though I dunno if I could do it. If you’ve totally ran of potential methods and ya absoultely desperate then ya gonna start looking at the more brutal ones. I’d imagine most potential suiciders would have at least weighed it up as a quick way to go.
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I think the only “honorable” way to commit suicide is the way animals do it: to go off into the woods and starve yourself to death. All other forms are equally unglamorous, so I don’t see why a train would be any worse than guns, knives, nooses & poison.
I do have a special admiration for people who go by train because the fear instinct must be the strongest there. Loud noises invoke a deep panic response in all animals that can hear. So for someone to submit to the sensory overload, knowing full well what is going to happen, is proof positive that they really wanted to get out of this damn life.
The only honorable way to commit suicide is to agree to have your head cut off and allow Ray Milland’s head to be sewn onto your body.
Spend a year commuting via subway and trains stop being scary at all. The same goes for hedgehogs.
Probably right, it’s all about desensitization. A few days ago another subway suicide video surfaced, and I must’ve watched it a dozen times. Not out of ghoulish obsession but just because I was trying to figure out what the kid felt as he jumped onto the rails. Absolutely no fear. He was nervous, but it was the kind of nerves an athlete feels before going out on the field. Sort of like “I don’t want to screw this up.” He didn’t.
You would have to time it to perfection otherwise the engineer hits the brakes , not all succeed unless it is a fast moving train and you run out in front of it and let the train hit you , bear in mind life can be brutally sickening and funny at the same time , you trip as you run and miss the train and at this point the engineer is on the phone therefore you have to hide otherwise it’s a visit to the physiatrist for you . I used to live near a large mental hospital , those who were allowed out on their own and decided to end life either jumped from the nearby bridge which was approx 200 ft in height and not all died , also nearby was a rail line and they would just walk out in front of a high speed train . Occasionally it was just an accident but most times it was intentional, you have to digest the state of mind or lack of mind when they killed themselves . You have a functioning brain and it knows what you are up to , maybe it will conjure emotions, memories to make you pause and think .
i like ur definition of honourable suicide, salt. no one to find u, no messy clean up.
i too have watched a whole lot of suicides videos, mainly jumpers and train walkers, i find myself watching them over and over thinking the same thing u did. what were they thinking just before, how did they feel etc…. any regret.
i have to be careful tho, i can get a bit obsessed.
You’re totally right about getting obsessed… and you start thinking of suicide the way they did it. I never used to consider trains before, but after watching a bunch I’m like, why not, add that to the list of possibilities.
But yeah I’d love to go off into the woods, far away from people, and spend my last days trying to make peace with the world.
I’ve always considered jumping from a bridge, but lately the idea of adding a suicide bomb vest to the jump has added certainty and cleanliness. Jump, push button, boom…pieces swept out to sea. Go out with a bang and mom would be proud I cleaned up after myself.
Now yer talking. Also add suicide by cop, because if for some reason the vest fails and the fall doesn’t kill you and you don’t drown, you’ll surely be shot for wearing a bomb vest.
I’ve gotten close enough to a train that my toes almost got cut off. I could have easily thrown myself in front of it but my mind was busy thinking about my friends and family. I think somebody saw my butt as the wind from the train blew my dress up! He smiled and laughed at me when I turned around to get back in my car lol.
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I don’t think I’d have the guts for a train suicide…I would think you’d have to be in the mindset of complete dedication as it would most likely be a success….my friend’s friend chose this and succeeded….you’d have to really want out and be without conscience of consequences…I don’t think I could work up the nerve no matter how bad I wanted out.