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Having worked at the railways, I would kindly request you don't mention what you just did.
Every time we read in some newspaper that someone had died, we knew that within the next about three days, a colleague or two will get traumatized by having to see someone's last facial expression right before a horrible clattering sound coming from the bottom of the locomotive. It was a rare exception that a newspaper mentioned someone having jumped in front of the train and there not being at least one person who got inspired by that article. And then, a long time without such accidents or almost no such accidents. Until there's an article mentioning this, and then there will be a couple in the next few days. Again.
And mind you, this is in a country with 5 million people. If it's written in a paper with tens of millions of readers, the article's killcount will be increased in proportion to the population difference.
The train drivers were telling me how they still sometimes wake up in the middle of a night because of someone having used them for a suicide two decades earlier. That they can still crystal clearly remember the last expression on the person's face.
Suicide is always an incorrect solution, because there's always a way out, and there will always be people who will be devastated. But at least, if someone absolutely must do the mistake of killing themself, then please, at least don't wreck anyone else's sanity by using them as an instrument for your death.
I'm not sure if a post on the Forumverse will cause someone to alter a suicide plan to include a train, but it's always a possibility. And the results on others' minds are not nice to see.
Good comment, man. Believe it or not, I did not even make my comment with suicide in mind, that is something I usually try to avoid for this exact reason. But I see now how that's actually the obvious conclusion to make here.