Consequences of public suicide

Freeman said:
OP. There was a programme on not long ago about London's underground. I think it was on Channel 4 possibly. Maybe BBC. Anyway, one episode covered suicides and how they deal with it. The train gets delayed, the driver comes off duty, and then is given the choice as to whether they want counselling or not. It affects different people in different ways so some opt for it, some do not.

Might be worth looking up on iPlayer or something as it sounds like you'd find it quite interesting.
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It was a Channel 4 documentary called "One under",don`t think it`s on 4od now,but it`s on YT.
 
Milkybk said:
I've had a family member and a friend kill themselves. It is selfish. It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Oh and I agree with one of the first posters, if I was delayed by some fool taking their own live I'd be annoyed too.

On another note, the latest Riddick film is just awful.
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I find your post is pretty selfish.

It takes allot to actually go through with killing yourself, I've been there and tried. Your probably one of those people who justify how someones life cannot be all that bad and to just 'cheer up'. That actually makes things worse, because you feel weak and more insecure at the thought that you cant handle everyday life like anyone else can, or compared to those africans who starve and dont go killing themselves. If it was so easy to cheer up then people wouldnt be going and ending it because they've felt there isnt any happiness left for them.

If you've actually been depressed its easier said than done. Going out with friends is hard, putting on a brave face and acting normal just for the sake of it. When people pull you down, jokingly but you take it too heart because you already feel so down already. little things that spark anger so much that you either want to punch something or break down and cry.
you go through emotions of hate, hurt, torment and everything else. you feel guilty for some of the thoughts that you have, and question if its you or not.

You feel a sense of weakness because of people like you, who just put off the fact that even if life does look all that dandy it doesnt stop someone from being in a totally different frame of mind than that.
When everyday life seems like a struggle, and you've tried for so long to 'be normal' and happy and came right back to the same place then its hardly a temporary solution. Nobody just kills themselves because of a bad week, it takes years in the making, with allot of background.

You want to reach out top someone but you've gone over the same stuff in your head so many times its an effort to explain it to someone again, when you explain it actually doesnt seem that bad, its just everything else ontop of, and 9/10 they aint really that bothered to listen anyways.. so you sit and dwell and let it get worse.

No matter how you kill yourself somebody has to clean up the mess, be it seeing you swinging from a tree or washed up on a beach half eaten where you've thrown yourself from a cliff. fact of the matter is you dont think of the guy who has to deal with it. you may call it selfish but when you have so many messed up thoughts going through your mind, and the only thing that seems relavant is actually killing yourself to get as far away from the world that torments, hurts and upsets you im sorry that some 'fool' that decided he/she cant take anymore becomes a great inconvenience to your golden day.

I dont even know why I wasted the time to write this. just the last part of your post shows how ignorant you are.

To those that feel the need to say that its a cowards way out and its selfish ect. until you've actually been in that situation dont judge. it takes a lot to get to a point where you know you cant go on and life is just a grind.
People get the impression its easy to kill yourself but its actually hard to force matter over mind.
 
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W3bbo that was the most interesting thing I have read on here in a long time, good effort.

Nobody that commits suicide can be completely straight in the head, but I do get very frustrated when my train is delayed due to an incident such as this. But all delays are annoying.
 
but you can't see depression in a scan, so for some, it makes it less real.
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I am sure that i remember reading somewhere that actually you can! (Cranial blood flow scans) It just isn't normally used as a diagnostic tool

(I imagine that it would not be a very reliable test in practice. One knows what an unbroken bone looks like, but unless everybody has a brain scan on record of them in an un-depressed state for comparison, the differences revealed by a "depressed" brain scan may not be reliably obvious.)
 
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