Public transportation over my dead body - The social consequences of suicide on the tube
Generally speaking, I am unimpressed by suicide. I don’t care how bad you feel. I really, really don’t. I’m leaving out the question of whether its actually morally wrong or not, because I’m not sure what the answer should be. I will happily argue however, in favour of it being selfish, stupid, and incredibly cowardly.
It is not a brave venture into the unknown, it is not a resolution of your own destiny by your own hand. Its fucking retarded. It an admission of weakness beyond any other, you are saying that you cannot handle _living_, the most basic and simple of functions in modern society. It the easy way out of the worst situation, and it is the ultimate shirking of responsibility. It is fucking pathetic to take your own life in an overwhelming majority of circumstances.
But by all means, if thats your decision, feel free to do as you choose. Your life is not subject to any rule dictated by myself, your life belongs to you and you alone, to dispose of as you see fit. But for the love of fucking anything at all, please do not fucking kill yourself by jumping on the tracks of the London fucking Underground. You fucking stupid asshole. Have I used enough expletives to communicate my rage? A resounding maybe!
There must be a million ways to kill yourself in this golden age of humanity. Heroin overdose, hanging, bullet in the brain, sleeping pills, falling on your fucking sword, walking into a chav pub and asking for tea and biscuits, becoming a security guard in Iraq, to name but a few. So why the fuck would anyone choose to forego all of these convenient and readily available deaths just to be crushed by a filthy train?
First off, the only place you have access to the track is the platform. By the time the train gets to the platform, it is now going much more slowly than normal. So instead of dying a quick squishy death as you are splatted like a bug on the front windscreen of a speeding monster, you are slowly crushed to an agonising end as a circle of slack-jawed gawkers slowly gathers for some human/trainwreck traditionalism. Frankly, it makes no sense.
Unless you consider the fact that by flinging yourself underneath a tube you are not only ending your crappy existence in this world, you are also fucking up everyone else’s day. Is that the dying wish of these morons? “The world is too much for me, so I will take my life while simultaneously annoying several hundred thousand people”. Is it a cry for attention? “My life is hell, so I will make everyone else’s just that little bit worse, maybe then they’ll realise how miserable I was”
Do us all a favour and ritually disembowel yourself instead.
August 19th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
The lack of sympathy you’re trying to portray is shocking artemis. A different form of suicide I heard of last year in the US were people robbing stores etc. with guns, waiting for the Police to arrive and then putting the cops in the situation in which they would have to shoot.
Suicide is not the work of a rational mind and it greatly saddens me.
August 20th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
I have sympathy alright, much as I hate to admit it. But not for the people who took the easy way out. I have sympathy for their families, their friends. Every person whose life is affected by that one act of cowardice and selfishness.
Yes its fucking sad. Its a tragedy that people allow themselves to feel so defeated by life that they give up everything and inflict a world of pain on those who love them, for no reason but weakness.
August 20th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Sometimes people think things will be better if they were dead.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:55 am
Is there really such need for all the F words???? Really???
I agree - why don’t they just kill themselves alone and miserable? - it would be far more representative of the life they led!!!
August 21st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
I think it would be wrong to trivialise something like suicide, it’s a fairly significant event in peoples lives and must be an act of great despair.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
You expect logic from someone who is insane enough to top themselves?
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:19 pm
no, it would be wrong to say all people that commit suicide are in a mental state preventing them from making rational decisions. However, lots of people , whether depressed or not, act inrationally.
November 21st, 2006 at 2:30 pm
i think we might be forgetting, if the public transport system didn’t have so many problems, then the public might decide to go to work, instead of throwing themselves in front the the overcrowded and very much delayed train!