List of notable people that ctb via train + all ctb's

[StateOfMind]

Not sure why I'm posting this.. maybe I just need something to do lol.
Anyway, some interesting characters in the list especially the schizo stalker, politician and German billionaire.

Robert Enke - Wikipedia

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Daniel Pollock - Wikipedia

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Margaret Mary Ray - Wikipedia

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Thomas Schäfer - Wikipedia

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John Stevens (cricketer, born 1875) - Wikipedia

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Malik Bendjelloul - Wikipedia

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Adrian Borland - Wikipedia

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Robert W. Criswell - Wikipedia

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Adolf Merckle - Wikipedia

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Here is the full list of notable who ctb'd
Looks like hanging is by far the most popular.

List of suicides - Wikipedia

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[JigsawFeelin]

I was so delighted (in a way) to see Adrian Borland in your list.
The Sound are my favourite band, I go to visit him a few times a year.

Also, I hope it wasn't him you referred to as a 'schizo stalker'. He had a schizoid affective disorder but was definitely not a stalker.

 

[StateOfMind]

I was so delighted (in a way) to see Adrian Borland in your list.
The Sound are my favourite band, I go to visit him a few times a year.

Also, I hope it wasn't him you referred to as a 'schizo stalker'. He had a schizoid affective disorder but was definitely not a stalker.

Interesting!

Nah it was Margaret Mary May

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

Its definitely an interesting method. Now the real question is how many people were "suicided" by being pushed into a train ;). There was an era before mass surveillance/cameras everywhere and politically / economically inconvenient people could be disposed of with a simple push

 

[fixitinpost]

I was actually looking at this not too long ago. The wiki page didn't seem to mention

Ted Gärdestad - Wikipedia

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a prominent Swedish musician who jumped in front of a train in 1997. He didn't make a huge splash internationally, but collaborated with musicians that did (like ABBA) and some of his songs have become sort of anthems in his home country.

It's a bizarre and sad story really. He was thought to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, but never received treatment. He got indoctrinated into an Indian cult that went on to commit a bioterror attack on US soil. He had returned home, and was wrongly accused in the media of several serious crimes, including serial killings and the assassination of the Swedish prime minister in 1986. Even though he was never considered a suspect by the police, the rumours and speculation continued in the public eye and accelerated his mental health decline leading up to his death.

And yet, when you mention his name I think most people's thoughts will spring to childlike innocence and a warm summer's day by the ocean, because that's the sort of music he is most famous for.

 

[Throwmyselfaway]

Wow interesting list.

if I may ask how did you end up deciding train? I'm just curious. I've read several of your post and can't remember if you mentioned it or not.

 

[StateOfMind]

Wow interesting list.

if I may ask how did you end up deciding train? I'm just curious. I've read several of your post and can't remember if you mentioned it or not.

It's mostly circumstantial, availability, reliability and independence from factors such as people being at home.
I could go out every evening (around the same time and a 5 min walk) if I so choose and get killed by fast moving train that usually always arrives.
That's not the case with other methods.

Also I'm useless at partial and don't like SN method.

 

[Throwmyselfaway]

It's mostly circumstantial, availability, reliability and independence from factors such as people being at home.
I could go out every evening (around the same time and a 5 min walk) if I so choose and get killed by fast moving train that usually always arrives.
That's not the case with other methods.

Also I'm useless at partial and don't like SN method.

Fair enough. Many aren't able to utilize other methods. Looks like you have been doing hella research

 

[an_alias]

you forgot the one and only Sir Terry A. Davis

 

[StateOfMind]

you forgot the one and only Sir Terry A. Davis

Very cool and interesting guy. I don't believe in the existence of schizophrenia and I believe his life was ruined be the deep state. I truly believe he was subjected to psyops..

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia

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David Berman (musician) - Wikipedia

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Jonghyun - Wikipedia

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Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia

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[StateOfMind]

Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia

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David Berman (musician) - Wikipedia

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Jonghyun - Wikipedia

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Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia

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Pretty sure Hemingway died via shotgun to the head.

 

[StateOfMind]

you forgot the one and only Sir Terry A. Davis

Thank you for introducing me to Terry!
Apparently he died the same day of this video?

 

[Sherri]

Good Amy, I miss her voice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse

 

[an_alias]

Thank you for introducing me to Terry!
Apparently he died the same day of this video?

he very much did. august 11th

 

[Cherrypea]

Interesting they are all jumpers apart from the woman who kneeled on the tracks.
I'm sure there was a high profile train decapitation more recently but I did find this... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...yer-61-killed-train-lying-railway-tracks.html

 

[gus.nixon]

How about author David Foster Wallace.

Wikipedia

Great Speech