07-30-2014, 04:44 PM
I bet if there was a sound recording of any in cab conversation that all the news services could play would be a series of bleeps.
Seriously, I too felt sorry for the engineer.
Imagine having to call that one in and then walk your train on a bridge no less, fully expecting to come across a slaughterhouse like scene underneath your train. The relief at finding them alive under the train would have been almost as big a shock.
Later the anger will come, especially when he wakes in a cold sweat after reliving this event in his sleep.
A mate of mine who is a police officer, told me years ago about attending a suicide by train event, a suburban electric passenger train, and yes it was a slaughterhouse scene. Picking up the pieces so to speak is not a nice part of the job for the police or ambos.
Unfortunately severely depressed people are in such a deep hole mentally that consideration for others goes way down their list.
Anyone finding themselves in just such a position need to realise that it is OK to put your hand up and ask for help.
For men it can be the hardest thing of all to ask for help but it can be done and it is OK.
I have been there in the bottom of that mental hole and it is not a nice place to visit or be living in, but with the right tools and a little bit of help a person can dig their way back up into the sunlight and enjoy life again.
Mark
Sorry didnt mean to rant but the situation is often related to suicide by train.
Seriously, I too felt sorry for the engineer.
Imagine having to call that one in and then walk your train on a bridge no less, fully expecting to come across a slaughterhouse like scene underneath your train. The relief at finding them alive under the train would have been almost as big a shock.
Later the anger will come, especially when he wakes in a cold sweat after reliving this event in his sleep.
A mate of mine who is a police officer, told me years ago about attending a suicide by train event, a suburban electric passenger train, and yes it was a slaughterhouse scene. Picking up the pieces so to speak is not a nice part of the job for the police or ambos.
Unfortunately severely depressed people are in such a deep hole mentally that consideration for others goes way down their list.
Anyone finding themselves in just such a position need to realise that it is OK to put your hand up and ask for help.
For men it can be the hardest thing of all to ask for help but it can be done and it is OK.
I have been there in the bottom of that mental hole and it is not a nice place to visit or be living in, but with the right tools and a little bit of help a person can dig their way back up into the sunlight and enjoy life again.
Mark
Sorry didnt mean to rant but the situation is often related to suicide by train.
Fake It till you Make It, then Fake It some More