What do you think and feel if in the train they say there will be a delay due to an "accident" on the track?

[noname223]

I don't know the exact wording in English. But I am refering to a suicide on the track. Someone jumped in fron of the train. I read someone here once. The person was shocked how heartless the people react to it. He made the experience in my country. I think many Germans try to be always punctual. Me too. But I could never be angry about someone who was this desperate. Always when I hear announcements like that I get innerly sad. I think this could be me in the future. I try to be quiet for a short time and think about the person, the pain the person had to endure. Due to OCD I am kind of obsessed on punctuality. But I have learned some coping mechanisms.

I have not experieced such train announcements quite often. I often don't listen to the announcements anyway. But I get angry when people don't act with empathy. There they claim how suicide prevention was so important for them. But if you come a little bit later to your home you get angry on someone who was extremely desperate. Moreover the person decided for such a brutal methods.

I get sad when I hear something like that. And I get angry that people have to decide for such traumatizing methods. This is also not good mentally for train drivers. But my main criticism concerns the society and the denial of the right for a peaceful death.

 

[GentleJerk]

When I'm in Melbourne or Sydney I instantly think terrorist attack. When I'm in Adelaide or Brisbane I think maybe car crash or flash flood. In Perth I just think someone chucked themself on the tracks cause they were super fkn bored and had enough of the heat.

 

[western_heart]

Frustrated with the society that leads to this kind of thing happening. Wishing we had better infrastructure to make it harder to jump in front of the trains.

I used to work/live near a commuter train line that sometimes stopped running due to people on the tracks & accidents, so it caused delays for me and my colleagues. I don't think I've personally been on a train that hit someone, but I have been delayed by such incidents, and avoided getting on a train that would be stuck. I have memories of taking an uber, getting a ride from a colleague, walking, going out to dinner downtown instead of going home, etc., all as a result of delays that were sometimes suicides. I don't think it was always immediately known when a person was hit, but when it was, I remember feeling annoyed at the inconvenience, but sad more than anything.

I never wanted to be the person who delayed the commute for thousands, which kept me from jumping in front of the train myself. I felt weird just walking across the tracks at a pedestrian crossing. I used to look at the schedules to figure out which trains would be going the fastest (the ones that skip stations) and when they'd be at specific crossings.

 

[Sobreviviente]

You obviously have a kind heart. As for your concerns regarding the society and the denial of the right for a peaceful death, I think money and authority or domination are the main reasons why it is denied to die peacefully. The majority of working people are unhappy enough so they would commit suicide if they could do it peacefully. But if they do - who will work, being fully controlled and suppressed, with the illusion of freedom of choice, over whom to rule?

I think this could be me in the future

Please reconsider that, I was the one who did it, unfortunately. As a result both of my legs were amputated, and now I'm facing tremendous phantom pain every single day, sometimes at nights too, even in my dreams, although I'm taking tons of pills. I would have ordered SN to finish my suffering, but can't because I'm still in hospital, in a wheelchair. I did it on impulse, but if I could plan it I would have better chosen something else and probably would have already been dead or rescued without any damage. Now I have to wait till I can get home to order SN or take a risk and order N, although still have to wait till July or even August when N will be in stock again. I was thinking that I can't wait 5-10 days more to get my N or SN and later on I've spent several months in hospital facing pain I've never experienced before and still need to be here. So please be patient and do not act on impulse.

 

[FuneralCry]

To me it is just awful how people have to resort to such brutal methods to end their suffering. It is upsetting to hear of people dying in that way. It is the fault of the society for denying people the option of a peaceful exit. I think that someone must be so desperate to ctb by train. The train sounds like a horrible way to go and no one should have to resort to methods like this.

 

[chloramine]

Honestly I feel jealous when it works. It's not a method I would ever do because it involves other people and I feel awful for people who resort to that. I'm not proud of it but my instinctive reaction to hearing about death is wishing it was me