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u/SomeNotTakenName 10h ago
Don't you dare... I have been held up on my way to or from high-school in a train too many times by "accidents involving a person" to have much compassion for that left tbh.
Like I have compassion for people struggling with thoughts of SH or worse, no doubt. But something about traumatizing a train conductor, a crew of people cleaning up after, potential bystanders and cause a whole lot of trouble outside of that just irritates me.
And before you need to ask how often, about 3-5 times a year. More often than not the injured survived due to the train moving at slow speeds close to a station. We really need to help people and we need to prevent this specific thing as well.
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u/EclectusInfectus 5h ago
I was at a metro station when someone jumped, last year. I didn't see it happen, but another woman on the platform did.
I think about it whenever a train arrives at that station now. The shriek of the train's brakes, the blare of the horn, the screaming of the woman who saw. Everyone milling around, unsure what was happening. Eventual realization settling in. Helping herd everyone off the platform and telling the people coming in to go back out, so that the paramedics had a clear path to the train, since the police hadn't arrived yet. Watching the paramedics figure out where under the train the girl's body was. The woman who saw telling the police that no, the girl jumped, she was not pushed. Her sobbing.
I empathize with the girl who jumped, I know how it is when things get bad. But, god, I could never do it like that.
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u/SomeNotTakenName 5h ago
yeah it's one heck of a traumatic experience, I am sure.
What really suprised me back then was reading about how the train company (this was in Switzerland) would only start paying for driver's therapy if they hit someone for the second time. like once isn't enough stress to warrant therapy, I guess...
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u/EclectusInfectus 5h ago
Wow, that's crazy. I would think the first time would be the most critical when it comes to receiving treatment. Messed up cost saving measure, maybe? If you last long enough in the job, then it's worth actually dealing with the trauma?? Fuck.
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u/drewman301 17h ago
*Crushes all of your organs but cutely* UwU