Unprecedented Wave of Railway Suicides Hits France

pttf dead living, I dont give a flying fuck or a subway fuck really..

 

That happens in Poland all the time-people jump in front of trains to commit suicide-then the trains are all shut down for hours. I'm sorry for what happened to these people, but you'd think if they wanted to commit suicide they could do it in a way that didn't paralyze travel for everybody for hours.

 

C'mon were on a forum, what do you expect? Its the same as how we all know a war is going that shouldnt be but still we are to concerned with our own lives to do anything about it, as long as its not happening to us we couldnt be bothered with it. I dont see how people saying "I feel Bad..." or "R.I.P" on a forum makes them better than the people concerned with the delays. Why should people on the internet be concerned with these suicides? They have their own agenda and lives to worry about, we could say R.I.P or make a joke about a zombie apocalypse but it doesnt matter either way, Its 12 deaths out of + thousands of deaths that happen every day. We cant feel bad for all of them, why cant we celebrate their moving on? we know their not going anywhere, feeling sad or unhappy isnt going to get anyone ahead.

I feel like I might start some shit with this post but its how I feel on the subject.

I should add that I have dealt with multiple deaths of people and friends I knew all my life in my small community, and it happens and its shocking, but thats as far as it goes. The dead arent rolling in their graves because we didnt write R.I.P on a forum.

 

not sure that i understand your reasoning there that we're on a forum, what did i expect? i thought forums were for discussion, learning, challenging our thoughts, and not just for fun purposes, although it's good that people can find both here.

can i ask then, you say about wars and why the fuck should we worry because it's not happening to us? see, thats the problem isn't it, you say if our lives arent affected then why should we care? well in my opinion we should care because one day this could and has in the past, been on our own doorstep.

reminds me of the poem by niemoller....

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

and that is why we should care..........but i respect that you have a different viewpoint to me, that is what makes forums like this so interesting

 

Neat poem, spose your right. But yeah, I dont think theres a way to get everyone to care about these subjects. People have things like jobs and daily drama's that makes it to busy to worry about whats happening on the news. Not saying thats how it should be I guess but thats what I see it as.

My comment was mostly aimed towards your being 'shocked' at the commuter's responses...

 

yes people do have their own problems and theyre not to be underestimated, job and home loss, relationship breakdowns, money troubles with this world recession, govt interference in lives, health even, but i do believe that the tide is turning and that people are starting to wake up and see whats going on around them and are being concerned enough to do something. thats why the occupy movement has been so strong in so many countries. we all have a voice and we can use it if we choose to and the time is now.

not sure yet though why all the unprecendented suicides in france though, anyone know any more about this and what the reasons may be other than it could, and probably was, have been brought about by the things ive said about above?

a thought just came in my mind as i typed this, seems that countries that seem to be pretty well off in comparison to third world countries with fuck all have a higher percentage of people suffering from depression...............

maybe we should all be getting back to basics and being happy with what we do have instead of being greedy and wanting ever more and more because it seems its fucking hard when we lose it.

i make no apologies for being shocked at the commuters responses because i genuinely was, i care about people, maybe my hearts too soft, but id rather feel than not.

 

Roughly,

0.85% of the world population dies each year, 54 Million

150,000 a day

So in that 3 day period mentioned, 2nd to 4th of June, close to half a million other people died across the world and barely got a mention

150000 a day by the way, at an average of 80kgs each is 12000 tonnes per day of humanity. Eiffel tower is just over 10000 tonnes......a day

4.4 million tonnes a year, the Great Pyramid of Cheops weighs about 6.2 million tonne


Gross

 

Crazy.

 

That also works out at 104 people every minute.

Staggering when you think about it, and we are worried about a few zombies last month, or a handful of suicides in this thread.

OIr back to the Boxing Day Tsunami, being shocked at the sheer number of deaths for that disaster (230,000) not realising that on that same day, roughly around the same number were keeling over in the rest of the world from heart disease, cancer, old age

 

It is sad when people die but if someone gets sad about every person that dies then they will always be depressed. Now I'm not saying that we should be apathetic towards the death of others but we should have a reverence toward their situation. And I personally believe that it is horrible what happened. I could not imagine purposefully injuring my self much less taking my own life. To think that someone would be hopeless or sad enough to do it is disturbing to me.

 

I feel bad for the dudes that had to clean all those trains