Suicide isn't painless - it's messy...
Working on the railway - we get to see some truely horrible sights, usually involving large amounts of blood... for example (look away now if you don't like gore)...

The woman who decided to end it all by jumping infront of an express train, as it ran through a small but busy station in the morning rush hour. Weird thing was, before I saw the aftermath - I was convinced that people hit by cars/trains.etc sort of bounced off and get mangled - not explode on impact and shower the platform (and a large number of commuters) with minced body parts and lots of blood, as this woman did. 100mph makes a lot of mess. Ambulance tech told me the commuters on the platform looked like extras from the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

Another fatality, but we only found her the morning after. She'd stuck her neck over the rail as the last train came through. Lots of blood, and a very grey body.

And lastly, a colleague of mine ran into a flock of sheep with an empty train. Killed or seriously maimed 26 of the things. The smell was unbelievable - especially when the train was sent back to the depot after sitting in the sun for 2 hours while they cleared the line.

Sometime my job isn't nice at all.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 8:47, Reply)