A-1 (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:15 am I would not make this generalization...
It is hard to believe that strolling in front of a train would be any suicidal persons choice of method of suicide.
On the contrary, I believe the manner or method of choice can be an interesting indicator of the the victim's thoughts prior to death.
Many years ago, I read that at least ninety percent of all teenage suicide attempts were teenage girls, yet eighty percent of all teenage suicides (not attempts) were teenage boys. The reason is that most of the time, not always, but most of the time, teenage girls attempt suicide, subconsciously or consciously not truly wanting to die, but instead doing it to get attention and sympathy. Girls and women tend most of the time to choose methods that are not immediate and can be turned back from (e.g. standing on a high building ledge, cutting their wrists) and also they often choose methods that do not disfigure their bodies and face (e.g. overdose on pills, turn on the oven gas without the pilot light and putting her head in the oven - as General Patton's niece did after the General died). These methods have the highest possibility of the "suicide" victim being discoverd (and rescued) by others while there is still a probabilty of recovery.
But there certainly does exist, that interesting minority of female suicides that involve sudden, irreversable, and certain methods (e.g. guns and trains).
I do not wish to sound insensitive or cold here, but when a female chooses one of these irreversable and suddent methods, it would be interesting to see what her thoughts were prior to suicide. Believe me, I do KNOW, I was close to one victim who ended her life with a borrowed pistol. While rare, this sort of female suicide does occur.
IF this poor girl's case is a suicide, as I strongly suspect, her choice of a train for her suicide method would indicate to me that she did not care about what her body would look like after she died. Not caring about her personal appearance is a clearly unusual state for any female. I would strongly suspect that she was going through one of the infinite emotional stages when a teenage girl "hates the way..." something or another about her body looks. She may have felt ostricized and unpopular because she was too fat/thin/tall/short.... etc. etc. and decided to end it all and end what she percieved to be displeasing looks.