Train suicide, fiction or not ?

[Prime]

You can do something snappier. Run towards the train as fast as you can. A male adult can run at around 30kmph. Suppose the train is hurtling towards you at around 140kmph. The velocity of the train relative to you at the instant it makes contact thus will be greater than what it would have been if you were standing still. Still not eladified? Then make a sharp forward jump towards the train while running towards it at your top speed just before the point of contact. Head first and then Bam !

 

[Roph]

Go to news.google.com and search for news articles on "train suicide." It's definitely not fiction.

 

[Arak]

@Prime ,

A healthy adult could. A train at 140kmp ? Most certainly not everywhere. Yes, if I could splat myself againt the front of a train going 200 kph. ..

 

[Prime]

Trains are good but super messy and you will make newspaper headlines, leave the driver in PTSD, disturb train schedule and affect national economy(lol), so not a good idea. If you fail, well don't even try to think how life will be afterwards. If its hell today, I don't know what you will call a hell for those already in hell !

 

[Goldie]

People definitely do die - in the UK where I am from you here of delays due to 'person under a train' with quite scarily high-frequency. There is an awful chance that you might survive and it would be very painful so I would not recommend it.

In Tokyo your family get fined based on the amount of delay yours suicide causes. This is done to promote people to kill themselves in the suburbs rather than the city-centre.

Also while attempting at night it is easy to get confused by the headlights of the train and stand on the wrong track. You will look like an idiot if the train passes from some other track !
Lol

OMG I actually laughed out loud.

 

[ManWithNoName]

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Also while attempting at night it is easy to get confused by the headlights of the train and stand on the wrong track. You will look like an idiot if the train passes from some other track !
Lol

Kinda like when Steve Martin and John Candy ended up driving the wrong way on the highway:

 

[not_a_robot]

Best Ever train suicide. I am in awe of this lady.
She was laid on tracks to get run over by electric train. Driver stopped just in front of her but she had a backup plan!
She runs away from the people pulling her off the tracks and CLIMBS UP TO THE TOP OF THE TRAIN LIKE KINGKONG! Grabs elecrical wires at top of train. Fries herself.

This lady must have had a bad situation to need to ctb, but god bless her, she inspires me so much.
RIP, Indian Lady.