timely, yet morbid
Yesterday, I mentioned I recently discovered Suldog-O-Rama. One of his posts that caught my eye was from last week, “An odd little scene from the life of Suldog.” It is very disturbing… read with caution.
The general topic, if you don’t want to read it, is about suicides on the T. Suldog witnessed one years ago and was wondering why it was never mentioned in the news. One commenter noted, “the news media does not report on suicides or suicide attempts. I guess it may be out of respect for the families or an attempt at not glorifying suicide. Perhaps that was the case with the man you saw also.”
Interestingly, I got saw an article in the metro this morning: “Transit officer stops attempted suicide” (sadly, the metro does not have a website so I can’t provide a link link thanks adam! - see comment below). Anyway, this article focuses on the “hero” who prevented the suicide attempt rather than the actual suicide. However, I couldn’t help but note the irony of the timing on this one.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the mention - always appreciated.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
http://boston.metro.us/ - but like the dead-trees version, it leaves you wanting more. Like, if you want to see that story, you have to click on “today’s paper” and navigate to Boston and then a calendar and then you get to download the ENTIRE PAPER AS A PDF. Gah!