i guess the deceased had a point to make? (don't know who this person is) if its a normal suicide it'll be tucked quietly to a corner in the tabloids and would have been in vain but a jump onto the track... actually piqued my interest to know what's his/her story.
having said that i think our local transport providers are providing less than appalling services. If we were to visit countries as developed as ours like taiwan and HK, barriers are all placed up eons ago and frequency faster than we can dial-a-fuck. (I mean preventing suicides aside)
As far as Taiwan, the Kaohsiung MRT has barriers at all stations, I think, that go all the way to the ceiling. But the Taipei MRT doesn't have them at all stations but is slowly putting them up. They do not reach the ceiling though and I'm sure if someone wants to jump on the tracks, they will find a way over.
When the MRT was first built in the early years, there wasn't a problem with it, as far as I know. And then as the years trickled by, and someone took it in his head to jump in front of the train for the "benefit" of his family as they would "benefit" from the media publicity.
Following that the "trend" followed, and suddenly it became a "safety" issue?
Yeah because of one example and so the rest of the sheep follows... cue interest in the recently widow and a platoon of hungry squalling kids. Cue in depression, lost job, economy bad blah blah blah blah, ailing dying parents to take care of, usually a retarded kid somewhere...
Then the papers will write a sensational sob story out, and all the "sympathetic" people will try to donate pittance to the poor desolate and destitute household...
I should apply to be a scriptwriter for soap operas...
don't be so quick to judge. its easy being a keyboard warrior and all lambasting his 'incivility' perhaps he has a cliched story but he lived it at least till he died not you. i am writing this also to remind myself that as well.
having said that i think our local transport providers are providing less than appalling services. If we were to visit countries as developed as ours like taiwan and HK, barriers are all placed up eons ago and frequency faster than we can dial-a-fuck. (I mean preventing suicides aside)
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Following that the "trend" followed, and suddenly it became a "safety" issue?
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Then the papers will write a sensational sob story out, and all the "sympathetic" people will try to donate pittance to the poor desolate and destitute household...
I should apply to be a scriptwriter for soap operas...
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I never said that his life was insignificant.
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