Thursday, 2 February 2012

London Underground's body problem

 The London Underground is busy. As anyone who has used the system can testify it can be a nightmare. For all the faults of staff, rudeness, and testiness, they do a hard job dealing with the worst things imaginable: us. 


It is not a box of chocolates. 


Now there is a new Channel 4 documentary on the Underground who are trying to whip up hype for their series by causing a scandal using the fact that when suicide victims kill themselves by throwing themselves in front of trains they are stored in empty rooms, storage rooms, cupboards, etc., for the brief time until they can be removed from the site. This timescale being from half an hour to two hours. 


Apparently this is a scandal and disrespectful to the dead. 


I don't get it. Yes it's not very nice but it is the right thing to do. Leaving what's left of people in full view of the public and especially children would be wrong. Underground stations don't have morgues so where else would you place the body and it's bits if not a secure and unused room?


I have the deepest sympathy for the sucide victims, perhaps even more so for the train driver who the sucide chose to kill them, and the poor people who have to clean up the mess. However this isn't about lack of respect, and most definitely not a scandal, it's about London Underground doing its best in awful circumstances. 


The suicide victim aren't there anymore and showed their own bodies little respect so you cannot condemn the underground or it's staff for being disrespectful. 

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