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.
i think the idea of getting smrt to erect barriers is not to prevent the guy's suicide, but to deter people from killing themselves there. i don't really care that some stranger chose to end his life, but barriers will probably dissuade people from creating an inconvenient mess there.
Deterring people from killing themselves THERE doesn't mean they will not be killing themselves ELSEWHERE. Like I said if a person seriously thinks that it's the end of the road for him, there is nothing you can do. Even if you were to tie him up in a straitjacket and restrain him on the bed with an intravenous, he can simply "will" himself to waste away and die.
And I seriously doubt these people wanting to kill themselves on the MRT track have "civic" courtesy on their minds.
yep exactly....i don't care if they kill themselves elsewhere. just don't do it on the mrt tracks when other people are trying to commute. thousands of people die everyday and i certainly don't care for another stranger. but as you have mentioned, they shld show some civic courtesy but if they can't, the barriers will help to deter them from doing it on the tracks.
That happened here a few months ago but on the regular train tracks, not the MRT. Tied up the train for hours. The MRT here is slowly putting up barriers in all stations but yeah, if someone wants to truly do it and inconvenience everyone else, they will find a way to go over them as they don't go all the way to the ceiling. Why can't these people just take pills?!
that's not very considerate either. few years ago i went to take a look at this area at the void deck where someone jumped. though there was an attempt to clean it up, some lumps of flesh and bone bits were still stuck to the floor. i feel sorry for the cleaner who has to scrub the deck down.
Hear hear! The person lame la... Next thing u noe he'll start blaming hdb for the high rise flats (those who commit suicide by jump from high levels), blame the knife suppliers who make the knives so sharp (for those who slit their wrists) n the list goes on... ;p
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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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And I seriously doubt these people wanting to kill themselves on the MRT track have "civic" courtesy on their minds.
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So if anyone wants to point fingers, it shld be at LTA.
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