How many times have you been severley delayed getting home or going somewhere due to somebody committing suicide by jumping in front of a train?

I think it's twice to me in about 4 months now.

I thought it would be a nice easy journey home yesterday with it being an early kick off, as I didn't have to get a taxi to Darlow station. It wasn't to be.

Apparantly over 250 suicides occur on train lines every year, which results in 250 tramatised drivers.

That's an interesting thought to end the day.

Fooking 'ell, you must be a really boring conversationalist for them to jump!

never mind the traumatised drivers, what about the poor fookers who have to pick up the bits....................

Being serious for a moment, I was out with a friend one night and drove him home, dropping him off at about 11.30pm. I got a call the next morning at 11ish to say he'd thrown himself in front of a train, he had calmly handed his glasses and wrist watch to a fellow passenger on the platform before jumping. He seemed his usual self that night but it turned out that he had debt collectors after him and they were starting to turn up on his doorstep. How depressed must you be before committing suicide?

I've had people chasing me for money most of my adult life. I would never let the bastads get to me enough to end up jumping in front of a train.

Nil illegitimo in desperandum carborundum.

Or one of many variations of a fake latin phrase.

depends on the individual's threshold towards life's setbacks I suppose. I couldn't imagine what would make me want to do something like that, the thought of upsetting the family would pull most people back. Debt collectors etc can't be nice, but after all it's just material possessions you'll lose, which we all do anyway when we croak it.
Now the thought of losing your own flesh and blood could push people over the edge.

However if someone is so determined to do it, then the method has to take other people into consideration - they should do it in private, and not off motorway bridges etc. It's a selfish act to do that.

if they can confirm it as a suicide they can get it sorted in less than an hour,the problem comes when no one is sure then it becomes a scene of crime and it takes hours to clean up.there has been over 100 in and around southall in the last 2 years(suicide capital of gb).
Just in case you did fancy doing it yourself the nose cone of a high speed train is 6ft of the ground ,measuring from the sleepers so most gadgies get nicely decapitated.there was a case at maidenhead a year or two back when a guy stepped out in front of an express at 125mph got decapped ,his bonce flew into the air and landed on the windscreen of another express travelling in the opposite direction

All 250 were in the Kent area. Gillingham to be precise.