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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2615943/Disabled-wife-devastated-husband-kill-speeding-train-apologetic-call-son.html

 

 

A couple in upstate New York have killed themselves in an apparent joint suicide by jumping in front of a freight train on Sunday.

Earl and Mary Myatt were killed by an oncoming train on tracks near Verona just moments after calling their son and apologizing for what was about to happen.

'He called me at 1:35, and at 1:37, they were dead,' the couple's 30-year-old son Brad Myatt said.

 

 

 

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One thing about the story is troubling to me.

 

They make it sound like this was a joint decision to do this together.  Yet, the article says that the wife was responding and behaving like a toddler ever since the diagnosis in January.  Given that, how could one make the jump that she had the mental capacity to make this conscious decision.

 

This sounds like the stress was too much for the husband and he could not bear to watch his wife like that....so he made the decision to end both of their lives together.

 

Tragic and sad indeed.

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this a quote from the thread where I found the story, as sad as this is...I couldn't help but laugh...
 
 
 
Hey there, son. It's your parents. Just wanted to remind you one last time what a disappointment you've been. Gotta run, I've got a train to catch.

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this a quote from the thread where I found the story, as sad as this is...I couldn't help but laugh...

Hey there, son. It's your parents. Just wanted to remind you one last time what a disappointment you've been. Gotta run, I've got a train to catch.

Alice s parents?
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do it at home...why put the train driver/passengers through all that?

 

 

Agree,

 

I have no problem with what they did but how. Honestly I could see me going out that way in my 70s or 80s but not in a way that will cause mass problems for others.

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I work for a Train Operating Company (in England) - out of 3,800 employees stress is among the biggest reason for absence in the company - I'll look up the exact figure when I get back off this bank holiday. Fatalities are a weekly occurrence in this county. Train drivers and conductors are the main casualty of fatalities, but we also sadly oversee the stress from station staff and response teams who have to deal with it too, let alone passengers who are say, on a platform when they see someone else on a platform jump off it.

Often the response on twitter and Facebook I see to delays caused by fatalities is "f..king inconsiderate bas...ds ruining my commute" when in reality a person will take his life only when he's at the end of his emotional and rational mindset. Do you really expect someone to think "That's it, my mind's gone, I'm going to commit suicide. Let me just create a detailed short list of suicide methods and locations based on an evaluative criteria of ease of death, consideration to other people etc."?!

I better leave before I end up laying into the Daily Hate Mail!

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