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No. 3188
Sometimes it's just he's choice. As his friend, maybe you just gotta respect that.
Suicide isn't an easy choice. He probably thought it through. In my country, train suicides are probably the simplest. Reliable statistics on the likely mortality rate of being hit by an overground or underground train are hard to locate. Wikipedia quotes a 90% mortality rate for jumping in front of a high speed train (not when it is slowing down as it comes in to a platform though), and 67% for subway/underground trains, as people are generally jumping as the trains are slowing down coming into a station. For those kind of statistics, where failure means being paraplegic and not having the chance to kill yourself if you really did people yourself in a super bad situation, then you really got a go into in with a lot of hope. And since there is nothing after death, it's hope that the people around you will actually be more or less cool with it. He's not there to bothered by it, and he probably took your concerns into consideration. Just don't be a little bitch about it.
Anecdotally, the ease of jumping under a tube/subway train does make it an appealing method, although once again the unconscious survival instinct must be overcome in order to jump. Jumping just as a train comes out from a tunnel is the preferred spot as that gives the driver less chance for emergency braking manoeuvres.
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