Has anyone here survived a train suicide attempt?

[noname223]

Probably not (?) However the surivval rate seems to be 1/3 according to statistics. I wonder why. I am thinking about my next mental breakdown. The last time I was locked up in the psych ward. Next time might be same situation. Maybe I won't have an opportunity to take SN. Idk when I am extremely desperate I would really consider to jump in front of the train. But the survival rate (source Wikipedia/ train suicides in Switzerland) scares the shit out of me.
I wonder why so many survive. Do they take slow trains?
It must be extremely horrible to survive that. However if I would become homeless and there would be no other option I could imagine it. I can remember next to the psych ward there was a train station. And sometimes very very fast trains drove through.

 

[NormaJeane]

I suppose the driver of the train has braked so the suicidal person has been mutilated. But this method is not foolproof.

 

[noname223]

I suppose the driver of the train has braked so the suicidal person has been mutilated. But this method is not foolproof.

But the trains are so damn fast. If I would go for this method I really should do more research. Seems pretty dangerous. I just know someone who did it. However I think after the research I am alwas like what if I survive.

 

[quiet.rabbit]

But the trains are so damn fast. If I would go for this method I really should do more research. Seems pretty dangerous. I just know someone who did it. However I think after the research I am alwas like what if I survive.

If you do somehow survive you will not be capable of writing or doing anything really. Youll be too brain damaged.

 

[noname223]

If you do somehow survive you will not be capable of writing or doing anything really. Youll be too brain damaged.

I saw a documentary about someone who lost his to legs after train suicide attempt with no further damage. It isn't a popular method in this forum. Might have good reasons...
Btw this dude started to accept life and did not want ctb again. This is a big fear I have. After a suicide attempt damage realizing I don't wanna ctb. Or just being too traumatized in order not to find the courage again despite the damage.

 

[quiet.rabbit]

I saw a documentary about someone who lost his to legs after train suicide attempt with no further damage. It isn't a popular method in this forum. Might have good reasons...

Well I guess he did it another way. People usually go head first. And yeah it's not popular due to the moral issues that come with traumatizing the driver.

 

[noname223]

Well I guess he did it another way. People usually go head first. And yeah it's not popular due to the moral issues that come with traumatizing the driver.

It is only my method when I am extremely desperate.

 

[quiet.rabbit]

It is only my method when I am extremely desperate.

Have you looked at the Resources page? There's a lot of methods on there you may be able to try out like hanging.

Why are you planning to CTB?

 

[noname223]

Have you looked at the Resources page? There's a lot of methods on there you may be able to try out like hanging.

Why are you planning to CTB?

Bipolar, psychosomatic pain, coming poverty, no gf,
The extreme desperate case is when I am locked up in the psych ward

 

[FireFox]

Train is the WORST and most DANGEROUS method ever
because this is one method a person CANT afford to make a mistake or screw up otherwise the results will be loss of limbs and permanent disability.

Jumping against a train involves a high level of accurate and precise calculation from the time you stand against the platform/chosen surface and the seconds the train comes to the final part when you jump. This is a narrow window often with seconds.

Anything can go wrong during this time period ie the train decides to stop , caught by the people working in the train station ie trespassing a criminal offence, mess up with the jumping etc.

In my country people attempting suicide by train have gotten fined by the police when caught . This action is trespassing.

Ignore all the successful train suicides in the media. The media will always report a successful suicide to promote an agenda ie mental health awareness, give grieving parents a platform to push for some sort of change in society etc

It is NOT worth it . It is too dangerous. Avoid at all cost

Bipolar, psychosomatic pain, coming poverty, no gf,
The extreme desperate case is when I am locked up in the psych ward

Bipolar is a cruel illness that brings extreme mental torment and suffering to peoples lives. I hope one day there will be more stronger and better treatments to alleviate the pain bipolar brings.

Bipolar is a misunderstood illness which has led bipolar suffers to experience discrimination, judgement, bullying and lack of compassion.

I don't have bipolar but I have deep sympathy for people who do suffer this illness

I am so sorry Virtual hug

 

[noname223]

Train is the WORST and most DANGEROUS method ever
because this is one method a person CANT afford to make a mistake or screw up otherwise the results will be loss of limbs and permanent disability.

Jumping against a train involves a high level of accurate and precise calculation from the time you stand against the platform/chosen surface and the seconds the train comes to the final part when you jump. This is a narrow window often with seconds.

Anything can go wrong during this time period ie the train decides to stop , caught by the people working in the train station ie trespassing a criminal offence, mess up with the jumping etc.

In my country people attempting suicide by train have gotten fined by the police when caught . This action is trespassing.

Ignore all the successful train suicides in the media. The media will always report a successful suicide to promote an agenda ie mental health awareness, give grieving parents a platform to push for some sort of change in society etc

It is NOT worth it . It is too dangerous. Avoid at all cost

Bipolar is a cruel illness that brings extreme mental torment and suffering to peoples lives. I hope one day there will be more stronger and better treatments to alleviate the pain bipolar brings.

Bipolar is a misunderstood illness which has led bipolar suffers to experience discrimination, judgement, bullying and lack of compassion.

I don't have bipolar but I have deep sympathy for people who do suffer this illness

I am so sorry Virtual hug

Thanks for this posting. I often hear from successful Train suicides but so seldom from failed attempts. It really is a dangerous method.

 

[mr.smileysad]

if I were you I would just buy some cheap razors take out one of the blades and slice my neck artery

 

[motel rooms]

if I were you I would just buy some cheap razors take out one of the blades and slice my neck artery

Is that your method? You might wanna do some research on it

 

[FireFox]

if I were you I would just buy some cheap razors take out one of the blades and slice my neck artery

NO NO NO it's too dangerous and so undignified. I used to self harm and have permanent cuts on both arms. Leaving with self harm scars is difficult to live with. I am fine and comfortable with my scars but I have received judgement from family and outside of family. Its awful to experience. This is another involves a high level of accuracy and precision in finding the artery and successful slicing. There is a HIGH RISK of serious harm using this method . Finding the neck artery is difficult if a person has no understanding of the human body like doctors do. A lot of people struggle to find a vein depending on their bodies. Let me a explain why is so dangerous and not worth it

Dangerous

- if a person's fail to find the neck artery and cut in the wrong place this will led to risk of damage of the neck and the nerves surrounding the neck. The pain will be too much as the neck is a very sensitive part of body. Being left with permanent neck scar is very bad. There is a massive stigma with self harm I have been through it . I have been called " selfish " , "weak" for my self harm.

-Not instant death 13 reasons why lied in real life nobody will. die within minutes like hannah baker did . Bleeding to death it will take a while for all the blood to come and the pain of being cut. I once self harmed so have self harmed badly and my arm was stinging for the entire day and this was one surface level cut. A deep cut to the neck will be a million times worse

Its so undignified. People deserve much better than blood being poured all over the bathroom floor .

My chosen method is overdose or carbon monoxide as I want to sleep forever and be pretty. Everyday I wear dresses and I am a feminine female when I die I want to leave by body in my normal everyday look.
Everyone is different

Thanks for this posting. I often hear from successful Train suicides but so seldom from failed attempts. It really is a dangerous method.

Please be careful and just don't endanger your self. More people fail at suicide than succeed the media will not report it. For every successful suicide there a hundreds of people in A&E world wide as a result of their failed suicide attempt and there is also many servely disabled from their failed attempts. The media is also selective in how it reports suicide. if the person is young, pretty or popular ie celebrities or higher social class who kills themselves they will receive more coverage than someone who is on low income, disabled, not photogenic etc. This same principle applies to missing people as well.

My chosen method is overdose or carbon monoxide as I want to sleep forever and be pretty. I liked snow White when I was little. I love it when she was died and Princess kiss brought her back to life. I still do love snow white such a shame no Prince will be coming to rescue me from me :(
I love Disney and marvel too.

 

[Nutshell]

NO NO NO it's too dangerous and so undignified. I used to self harm and have permanent cuts on both arms. Leaving with self harm scars is difficult to live with. I am fine and comfortable with my scars but I have received judgement from family and outside of family. Its awful to experience. This is another involves a high level of accuracy and precision in finding the artery and successful slicing. There is a HIGH RISK of serious harm using this method . Finding the neck artery is difficult if a person has no understanding of the human body like doctors do. A lot of people struggle to find a vein depending on their bodies. Let me a explain why is so dangerous and not worth it

Dangerous

- if a person's fail to find the neck artery and cut in the wrong place this will led to risk of damage of the neck and the nerves surrounding the neck. The pain will be too much as the neck is a very sensitive part of body. Being left with permanent neck scar is very bad. There is a massive stigma with self harm I have been through it . I have been called " selfish " , "weak" for my self harm.

-Not instant death 13 reasons why lied in real life nobody will. die within minutes like hannah baker did . Bleeding to death it will take a while for all the blood to come and the pain of being cut. I once self harmed so have self harmed badly and my arm was stinging for the entire day and this was one surface level cut. A deep cut to the neck will be a million times worse

Its so undignified. People deserve much better than blood being poured all over the bathroom floor .

My chosen method is overdose or carbon monoxide as I want to sleep forever and be pretty. Everyday I wear dresses and I am a feminine female when I die I want to leave by body in my normal everyday look.
Everyone is different

Please be careful and just don't endanger your self. More people fail at suicide than succeed the media will not report it. For every successful suicide there a hundreds of people in A&E world wide as a result of their failed suicide attempt and there is also many servely disabled from their failed attempts. The media is also selective in how it reports suicide. if the person is young, pretty or popular ie celebrities or higher social class who kills themselves they will receive more coverage than someone who is on low income, disabled, not photogenic etc. This same principle applies to missing people as well.

My chosen method is overdose or carbon monoxide as I want to sleep forever and be pretty. I liked snow White when I was little. I love it when she was died and Princess kiss brought her back to life. I still do love snow white such a shame no Prince will be coming to rescue me from me :(
I love Disney and marvel too.

You are aware that when you die your body will relieve itself of any remaining fluids and gas? Death ain't pretty like in Disney,
No shade here just slight concern for your expectations/ fantasy and a weeny bit of a tease (in good jest).

 

[StateOfMind]

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/poll-would-this-kill-me.59473/

 

[hlynn95]

I highly do not recommend this method. It's a frightening, scary, and grueling death! Do something less painful.

 

[honig]

The only foolproof method with train is to get beheaded by it. But I could never do this, track where you'd put your neck is cold, train coming is extremely loud, you have to do this quickly with no hesitation because if you'd just lay there waiting for train someone would notice you. It seems like a very stressfull method, something I'd choose if I had to do it very desperetely and quickly with no time to get supplies for different method.

 

[hlynn95]

I think jumping off a bridge would be an easier method. When the impact of water hits your body, you instantly die. Sounds like it would just be a moment of pain. But you may literally see your life flash before your eyes as you take the plunge

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

This wasn't a suicide attempt, but I'll drop this in the thread as I feel it has useful information.

My father survived being run over by a 3-car passenger train in 2007-ish.

He was epileptic. He was waking somewhere and took a shortcut down the train tracks [can you see where this is going... ?]. He had a seizure, fell on the tracks and was laying unconscious right in the middle of them, no body parts laying across the sides of tracks to get cut off by the train. Train came--driver thought Dad was an animal and kept going. Realized too late that it was a human so he didn't brake before going clear over my father. Dad had scratches on his face and body, a collapsed lung, and a broken thumb. Spent a few days in the ICU and then went home. No lasting issues from it.

 

[Circles]

For those who are against the train method well maybe if society fucking allowed peaceful legal accessible methods to exist then maybe just fucking maybe suicidal people wouldn't feel the need to choose those methods then? Train suicides or any other traumatic suicide method in general is a symptom of why suicide needs to be fucking legalized and people get access to safer methods. But ohhhh no here comes the do gooders....

 

[toforigivelife]

Buying powerful drugs like fentanyl or heroin off of the dark markets - unless you know of a local connection - might be a more effective and more peaceful way to catch the bus.

 

[honig]

Buying powerful drugs like fentanyl or heroin off of the dark markets - unless you know of a local connection - might be a more effective and more peaceful way to catch the bus.

a lot of people don't have connections (I think 'younger' people are more able to do it, know how to reserach it. I for example managed to find local online drug market within hours, everything online and It's legit and they do have strong opioids.
Plus not everyone has the money. If I had more money I'd just buy shit tone of oxy (once after major accident they gave me strong opio and the high was amazing, it's like laying on a cloud and every move like changing position in bed was heavy but also gave me pleasure in some way. Amazing stuff) and that's it. But in my country you'd have to spend like half of you monthly check to get enough of it to kill you.

Train if done right (by decapitation imo) is easy, costs nothing, you don't have to plan it for days nor wait for even more for delivery of something..

 

[OnlyTheWind]

Best to be decapitated if going this way.

1. Go to your location when it's dark
2. Drink a lot of alcohol (like a whole bottle of whiskey), until you are totally smashed and numb
3. Wait for the train and put your neck on the tracks

The idea is that your reactions and reasoning will be severely impaired and death will be instant.

 

[toforigivelife]

a lot of people don't have connections (I think 'younger' people are more able to do it, know how to reserach it. I for example managed to find local online drug market within hours, everything online and It's legit and they do have strong opioids.
Plus not everyone has the money. If I had more money I'd just buy shit tone of oxy (once after major accident they gave me strong opio and the high was amazing, it's like laying on a cloud and every move like changing position in bed was heavy but also gave me pleasure in some way. Amazing stuff) and that's it. But in my country you'd have to spend like half of you monthly check to get enough of it to kill you.

Train if done right (by decapitation imo) is easy, costs nothing, you don't have to plan it for days nor wait for even more for delivery of something..

That's a fair argument.

 

[letmegetout]

Lying with your neck on the track is actually a pretty sure way to ensure success as long as the above things have been considered. I know of two in our area that colleagues have been to where the person placed their head onto the line and they literally were beheaded like a guillotine. The only unsuccessful train suicides I've been to have been and heard of that I can recall are when people do it as trains are coming into station the train is not going fast enough and instead you become mangled underneath in unimaginable pain with no-one able to get to you for what seems like eternity.

Whatever you do, do not jump infront of a train coming into a station. That is how people survive with life changing injuries like missing limbs, spinal cord damage, brain damage, or even if you do eventually die, it could take hours, days, weeks, months or years, yet you're no longer in a position to do ANYTHING about it because your in ITU, hospital, a psych ward or having 24/7 care because you can no longer do anything for yourself