Suicide is Painful (if you do it right, that is)

The suicide rate in Britain has dropped to its lowest level since WWII: just 84 people per million. The reason, according to the Economist, is that it's now much harder to top yourself. The head-in-oven trick hasn't worked since toxic coal gas was replaced by natural gas in the 70s. The latest catalytic converters mean that the car-in-garage solution takes far too long. And even the time-honoured method of downing hundreds of pills is too fiddly now that they come in those pesky blister packs. The result? Depressed people now have to kill themselves by parking their cars on railway tracks, which causes inconvenience (and death) to the rest of us. Poor Eurostar even had to cancel its hugely expensive 10th birthday party this week because of it.
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