Stories like this make me wish I had the guts to hang myself off of a highway overpass, or jump in front of a semi truck. Society refuses to accept the inevitability of certain life circumstances which drive people to end their own lives. Instead, they adamantly assert that suicide is universally attributable to mental illnesses which are always "very treatable."
This dismissive attitude will only change when people come to acknowledge that it is better to let people die in a relatively peaceful, dignified, private manner than to face the continued occurrence of brutal, horiffic, publicly visable suicides.
Maybe the only way to convince people of this fact is for suicidal individuals to continue to choose these very violent, very public means of self-annihilation.
I used to judge people who chose to end their lives by jumping off bridges, buildings, etc. But maybe this is what people need to see--that people have been killing themselves since the beginning of recorded history, an will continue to kill themselves in the future.
We can either accommodate these individuals, and respect their right to die a dignified death, or continue to face the horror of people jumping off buildings, stepping in front of trains, or blowing their brains out in public.
