Discussion CTB via jumping and then train - opinions?

[nepeta]

I found a place about 40 minutes from my house, it is down quite a far path so I doubt i'd be seen and stopped. The idea of the method is to walk up to this bridge, which goes over a train track (not very near a station) and jump off when a train begins approaching. If I land I will injure myself and not be able to get up and run from the train coming my way. I don't want to traumatise poor people or burden them any more, but I'm becoming more desperate to CTB and it's quite a pretty and isolated area.

How long would death by this method take, possibilities of being saved, and what time would I have to aim to jump so that I don't land on top of the train or feel the pain from the jump for too long?

Sorry if this post is long, and if it's in the wrong prefix.
ps I was there yesterday (Wednesday) at around 8pm and in the 15 minutes I was there, I saw 4 trains. I assume if I went at around the same time it wouldn't be too hard to CTB (or catch the train haha)

 

[FireWalkWithMe]

It seems to me that you're asking questions that are near impossible to answer. It would depend on the height of said bridge, the speed of the train, exactly how you land, how the train strikes you. Even if you could plot that out, which I don't think you can - it'll be pretty much random how you land and get hit, it'd still be nigh on impossible for us to guess what the probabilities are.

Obviously there will be a chance of being saved if you do not pass quickly because the driver is likely to realise.

So yeah, a lot of variables you're messing with so I wouldn't say it's a good idea. I think it may actually be worse than pure train because in my experience most railway bridges are probably not sufficiently high to kill you, so what does it really add to the method. Just adds more chaos.

 

[nepeta]

It seems to me that you're asking questions that are near impossible to answer. It would depend on the height of said bridge, the speed of the train, exactly how you land, how the train strikes you. Even if you could plot that out, which I don't think you can - it'll be pretty much random how you land and get hit, it'd still be nigh on impossible for us to guess what the probabilities are.

Obviously there will be a chance of being saved if you do not pass quickly because the driver is likely to realise.

So yeah, a lot of variables you're messing with so I wouldn't say it's a good idea. I think it may actually be worse than pure train because in my experience most railway bridges are probably not sufficiently high to kill you, so what does it really add to the method. Just adds more chaos.

true, lots of questions you can't answer unless you've done it before, and if someone's alive to answer it's probably not worth doing.
can you expand on how pure train is better? i live close to a station too, which is another option. i was just considering the jump because it's a decently high bridge as high as a 2 story house, and the shock of that drop could somewhat distract from the oncoming train? just trying to brainstorm a little because it's such a nice place to die

 

[TimetoGo!]

I found a place about 40 minutes from my house, it is down quite a far path so I doubt i'd be seen and stopped. The idea of the method is to walk up to this bridge, which goes over a train track (not very near a station) and jump off when a train begins approaching. If I land I will injure myself and not be able to get up and run from the train coming my way. I don't want to traumatise poor people or burden them any more, but I'm becoming more desperate to CTB and it's quite a pretty and isolated area.

How long would death by this method take, possibilities of being saved, and what time would I have to aim to jump so that I don't land on top of the train or feel the pain from the jump for too long?

Sorry if this post is long, and if it's in the wrong prefix.
ps I was there yesterday (Wednesday) at around 8pm and in the 15 minutes I was there, I saw 4 trains. I assume if I went at around the same time it wouldn't be too hard to CTB (or catch the train haha)

This was one of my original methods but I just feel that the mess being hit would make , is terrible for workers dealing with it. Terrible for loved ones knowing how you went and disruption to other peoples lives

 

[theboy]

How high is the bridge?

 

[nepeta]

How high is the bridge?

i don't know how high exactly it is, but seems to be about the same height as the 2nd story of a house. the drop isn't intended to be what kills me, just a distraction to the train/ best case scenario knocks me out from fear or something.

This was one of my original methods but I just feel that the mess being hit would make , is terrible for workers dealing with it. Terrible for loved ones knowing how you went and disruption to other peoples lives

i can agree on not wanting to be a disruption/cause trauma to anybody. also takes the privacy away from suicide, if only it was easier to die :(

 

[FireWalkWithMe]

true, lots of questions you can't answer unless you've done it before, and if someone's alive to answer it's probably not worth doing.
can you expand on how pure train is better? i live close to a station too, which is another option. i was just considering the jump because it's a decently high bridge as high as a 2 story house, and the shock of that drop could somewhat distract from the oncoming train? just trying to brainstorm a little because it's such a nice place to die

Well, I should be clear I don't like train either! Too random, gory and horrifying to witnesses for my liking.

But of the two, it just seems to me that train by itself benefits from simplicity. There are two elements. A train going fast, and you. So as long as you judge those two factors, and position yourself well, it is quite likely it will work. When you add in jumping it just seems more random.

 

[LittleJem]

the driver will brake so I think you might end up horribly injured and not able to CTB

 

[nepeta]

Well, I should be clear I don't like train either! Too random, gory and horrifying to witnesses for my liking.

But of the two, it just seems to me that train by itself benefits from simplicity. There are two elements. A train going fast, and you. So as long as you judge those two factors, and position yourself well, it is quite likely it will work. When you add in jumping it just seems more random.

fair! i'd feel bad enough in my final moments that i possibly traumatised an innocent train driver, and other people possibly, so it's not ideal but it is a decent success rate, i guess to ctb you sometimes have to overcome fear even if it is at the cost of others in some methods
and yeah, just stepping in front of a high moving train is much more simple i suppose, but wouldn't doing it at a station surely would be more traumatic, and have the risk of the train stopping before it should? they do take a considerable amount of time to brake and being hit by a slow train would hurt a lot ouch

 

[dumpstermagic]

i am a train hopper. if it's a passenger train it will have to stop and the mess will be real for everyone and they'll all know and carry that around forever. does that matter? ehhhh who knows.
if you can find a freight train you can just climb on it while it's stopped and hide and then when it gets to full speed just hop off the knuckle and you'll be gone gone. they'll find you, but there will be less people who see your squished mess. you can also take a bunch of alcohol and get shitfaced on the knuckle and fall off that way.

 

[nepeta]

i am a train hopper. if it's a passenger train it will have to stop and the mess will be real for everyone and they'll all know and carry that around forever. does that matter? ehhhh who knows.
if you can find a freight train you can just climb on it while it's stopped and hide and then when it gets to full speed just hop off the knuckle and you'll be gone gone. they'll find you, but there will be less people who see your squished mess. you can also take a bunch of alcohol and get shitfaced on the knuckle and fall off that way.

i think all of them are passenger trains, all of the 4 trains i saw were and i'd have to do the drop to get on anyway since it's not too close to a track where i could sneak on if it was a freight train sadly:( obviously don't want to traumatise anybody but would jumping off of the knuckle just kind of send you flying outwards? i don't know much about trains in general, but i figured being hit by one is a higher chance of dying than jumping out of one, might be wrong though seeing as you definitely know more haha

the driver will brake so I think you might end up horribly injured and not able to CTB

failing sure would ruin everything more than its already ruined for just about ever, but don't trains take around a mile to stop when they are going at full speed? i wouldn't be dropping until it was quite close, maybe about 10 seconds away. i don't know how viable the plan is but i feel like injured person + fast train would be a decent shot if i dropped myself right above the middle of the track

 

[dumpstermagic]

i think all of them are passenger trains, all of the 4 trains i saw were and i'd have to do the drop to get on anyway since it's not too close to a track where i could sneak on if it was a freight train sadly:( obviously don't want to traumatise anybody but would jumping off of the knuckle just kind of send you flying outwards? i don't know much about trains in general, but i figured being hit by one is a higher chance of dying than jumping out of one, might be wrong though seeing as you definitely know more haha

failing sure would ruin everything more than its already ruined for just about ever, but don't trains take around a mile to stop when they are going at full speed? i wouldn't be dropping until it was quite close, maybe about 10 seconds away. i don't know how viable the plan is but i feel like injured person + fast train would be a decent shot if i dropped myself right above the middle of the track

if you do manage to find a freight train jumpin in between the cars via the knuckle would be the way to do it. if you jump off to the side, assuming no one sees you do it, you will probably still die but you may go from dying immediately to laying there broken for x amount of time before dying

 

[Sparx]

I would advise against this method, some train drivers have been so traumatised from incidents like this that they ended up ctb themselves. IMO it's not right to involve other people in your attempt.

 

[nepeta]

if you do manage to find a freight train jumpin in between the cars via the knuckle would be the way to do it. if you jump off to the side, assuming no one sees you do it, you will probably still die but you may go from dying immediately to laying there broken for x amount of time before dying

ah that makes much more sense, so the ideal death by train would be to catch a freight train and jump between cars via the knuckle and hope nobody really cares enough to notice? that sounds decent, i for sure wouldn't want to be the poor guy who has to lie on the side in pain for ages

I would advise against this method, some train drivers have been so traumatised from incidents like this that they ended up ctb themselves. IMO it's not right to involve other people in your attempt.

that makes sense, and infringes on the privacy of ctb that lots of people want, it'd be horrible to bring someone else to it if they're innocent, i can agree with you on that side of things