Eben Harrel's Suicide on the Tube
There are plenty of ways to commit suicide, but few more public than turning a multiton moving train full of passengers into a bullet. Last year in the U.K., 194 people killed themselves on the tracks of mass-transit systems, with some 50 of those choosing the sooty tunnels of the Tube. New York City's subway averages 26 suicides a year. In Paris, 24 died on the tracks of the Métro last year.
Eben has written a thoughtful piece about a recent experience on the Tube one not unlike my own (Suicide at a Hotel), but in my brush with the passing, the weapon was gravity.