A cracking life

Suicide

On Thursday a 31 year old man jumped from a bridge on the M25 motorway and died, being hit by several cars. I passed his body, covered with a silver sheet which was held down by yellow and black tape.

I didn't know at this time what had happened but found out when I got home that evening; this happened at 07:00. Later that evening I spoke to my bloke and he asked:
"How could someone do that to themselves?... surely if you wanted to kill yourself you'd find a less unpleasant way of doing it"
I said that this was a form of extreme self abuse. Of course someone swould do something like this. At that point the man probably wanted to punish himself and everyone else for his pain. My bloke was talking from the point of view of someone who did not want to kill himself. Of course many people do use a different method but quite often this is borne out of a different reason. This man's actions affected me greatly; it must also have been really shocking and terrible for the people who hit him at 70 miles an hour. He will have affected many lives by his death.