Suicide by train 1hr ago..

[Brainonska511]

I agree with that, but why give a RR engineer a nightmare scenario he will not soon, if ever, forget about. There are other methods that don't involve anyone else and a violent ending with a shredded body laying around. The 2nd cop (who had seen the body) seemed very depressed over this tragic ending.

It sucks for the train operators and the ones who have to respond to it all, but honestly, I don't think the person committing the act is thinking about it rationally.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I agree with your position on the individuals as they're not thinking rationally even though they are thinking. People like that have lost hope and feel like they'll never recover from their situation. Killing ones self only begins a journey into eternal torment that could've been prevented if they'd turned to the right source.

We all have a choice to make and there are only two possibilities when we leave this life and since only one is the way the truth and the life without which we cannot achieve the best possible outcome then the alternative is weeping and gnashing of teeth where the worm dies not. This is why I can say that the despair they felt before killing themselves has been dwarfed by what they now experience.

 

[rh71]

I agree with that, but why give a RR engineer a nightmare scenario he will not soon, if ever, forget about. There are other methods that don't involve anyone else and a violent ending with a shredded body laying around. The 2nd cop (who had seen the body) seemed very depressed over this tragic ending.

And in the case of the LIRR "with an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America" - it affects not just the railroad employees. G'damnit go do it somewhere else.

 

[Ruptga]

Asking why someone did something while they were in an irrational state is like asking why the day's powerball came up even instead of odd, there may be a physical cause but there is not a reason or plan. Depressed people aren't sad, they're not tired, they're just broken.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

 

[RLGL]

Unfortunately I have a railroad friend that had to respond to those type of incidents. He retired early due to the grisly scenes he witnessed. Suicide by train is like suicide by cop, more prevalent than one expects. A side effect of mental illness that is so often ignored.