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Jump MRT incident at Queenstown station

Himiko

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Man found dead at Queenstown MRT
Posted: 29 November 2010 2207 hrs

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SINGAPORE: A man was found dead on the MRT track at the Queenstown station on Monday evening.

Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) received an emergency call at 8.16pm about the incident.

SCDF said the Chinese man in his early 40s was lying on the track below the last carriage.

He had extensive head injuries and was pronounced dead by paramedics.

Police have classified the case as unnatural death and are investigating.

Passengers said at about 8.15pm, the train was approaching the station when it came to a halt.

About 13,700 passengers were affected by the train disruption.

SMRT said bus bridging services were deployed to ferry passengers from Outram to Jurong East MRT stations following the disruption.

Normal service resumed at about 9.15 pm.

Passengers who were unable to complete their journeys due to the disruption can claim a refund within the next three days.

- CNA/fa

 

hillary888

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A combination of signage, access to SOS Lifeline and assistance failed to discourage Train commuters from choosing (Jump) as a form of commit suicides.

Be responsible, your Death may end your misery but not your loved ones sufferings.
 

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The problem has spread to london

Top solicitor jumped in front of Tube train because he could no longer afford to send his children to private school


Vincent Buffoni, 48, had concerns over family's finances after his law firm was hit by the recession
He spent £30,000 a year sending son to private school
Had remortgaged home to continue paying for children's education
Coroner: 'He must have had some black thoughts'

By Neil Sears

A solicitor worried about paying his children’s private school fees jumped in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard.
Vincent Buffoni, 49, was spending up to £30,000 a year to send Matthew, 14, to elite Charterhouse, and extra to send Francesca, ten, to a prep school.
But the law firm he owned had been hit by the recession, and he had remortgaged the family home to raise £60,000 to continue paying for his children’s education.
Exclusive: Charterhouse School, where Mr Buffoni had sent his 14-year-old son Matthew, charges fees of £30,000 a year
Early this year Mr Buffoni, an old boy of Marlborough College, contemplated suicide – writing a farewell note to his family and taking out a life insurance policy – but decided against it, the inquest heard.
Then, in May, he leapt in front of a train at a London station. Southwark Coroner’s Court in London was told that immigration law specialist Mr Buffoni, an Oxford graduate, founded Vincent Buffoni and Co in 1994.
As the recession took its toll on his business he suffered depression and anxiety. He had also been upset by the suicide of his brother Peter three years earlier.
One morning in May Mr Buffoni left home in Woking, Surrey, and took the train to Waterloo, from where he usually travelled to his office in Islington, North London, by tube.
But instead he went to Lambeth North and lingered on the platform, PC Steve Tucker told the court.
Scene: Lambeth North tube station, where lawyer Mr Buffoni threw himself under a train (file photo)
PC Tucker said: ‘The next train entered the station and he jumped down on to the tracks and into its path.
‘The train driver immediately applied the emergency brake, but was completely powerless to stop.’
Mr Buffoni’s wife Nicola, 50, said he had been taking anti-depressants for around a year before his death and had also been on prescription sleeping tablets, to which he feared he had become addicted.

'It does appear to have been a very impulsive, sudden and unexpected thought that passed through his brain'
In February he had asked to be admitted to a psychiatric treatment centre for his own safety, she told the court. Mrs Buffoni added: ‘His business had been hit by the recession and he was very concerned about our financial situation.
‘Our children are at private schools and we have been very careful with money. To ensure our son could complete his education we had taken out an additional loan of £60,000 secured on our house.
‘He continued insisting we would have to sell our house and send our children to state school in order to survive on a dwindling cash pot.’
But Mr Buffoni’s sister Clare said his mood had improved in the days before his death after he started a course of the anti-depressant venlafaxine.
'He told me that he felt his brain had clicked back into gear,' she said.
Finances: Mr Buffoni was worried over the financial performance of his law firm of the same name
She said she feared the new medication could have been responsible for triggering suicidal impulses, but doctors told the inquest it had been given in accordance with guidelines.
Coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe said there was insufficient evidence to record a verdict of suicide, and instead concluded Mr Buffoni had killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed.
The coroner said: 'Mr Buffoni must have suddenly had some black thoughts.
'He got off the train, waited for another train and jumped in from of that moving train and died instantly.
'It does appear to have been a very impulsive, sudden and unexpected thought that passed through his brain.
'Although there was a note it was written some time earlier and there doesn't appear to have been any planning of this event whatsoever.'
 

Received_by_Kings

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Re: The problem has spread to london

Our children are at private schools and we have been very careful with money.

That's not being careful and even if you feel so in the other aspects it is the small thing. The big thing like the business operation is much more important. If that is manageable you can still afford to splurge even and if that is not manageable then no amount of saving and scrimping would save you - it's just delaying the inevitable little by little.

Condolences to the poor man who carried the family burden wholly on his shoulders and who truly wanted nothing but the best for his children.
 

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Re: The problem has spread to london

Same race or not it doesn't really mean anything. I want mainly those stupid and ugly Chinese to jump.
 
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