by Wing Nut » Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:24 am
I'm not sure what you mean, but several years ago I was riding the Metra into downtown Chicago when a guy actually did jump in front of the train. I was looking out of the front window (the trains go backwards heading into downtown, so the last car has windows in the front) and this guy simply stepped out from behind a bridge abutment, layed down on the tracks, and let the train roll over him. People were complaining about how they were going to miss the ball game they were going to, and I told them I'm sure if he could he would reimburse them for the tickets.
To think that a little thing little thing like our personal time is more important than a person's life is wrong. As civilized people, it is our duty to ease people's suffering whenever we can. If that man's suffering was so bad that he felt the only way out was suicide, (both the boat captain and the guy I saw) then we as a society have failed them, and not they failed us.
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