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While the TTC does not publish stats on suicide attempts, most anecdotes I have heard puts it at or greater than once a month.
Every day, Wayne Moore hopes it won't happen again. In his 28 years as a TTC subway operator, he's been involved in 13 subway suicides. In 1999 alone, three people were crushed by Moore's train. While the first incident involved a man who fell to the track after suffering a heart attack, the second and third were suicides, leaving Moore so badly shaken he needed muscle relaxants to sleep. "But other drivers have had it worse," he says. "Some have seen as many as 25 or 26 suicides in a 30-year career."
Although the exact number is unclear, Bruce Bryer, a TTC ticket agent for 23 years, says that on average one person jumps every week. "Something needs to be done, because we can't ignore it any longer," he says.
TTC media relations officer Marilyn Bolton won't confirm the number of suicides, for fear, she says, of glamourizing the idea. She has a point, says Paul Links, chair of suicide studies at the U of T. "There is significant evidence that reporting on individual suicides can put vulnerable people at risk and lead to copycat suicides."
From Suicide & Mental Health Association International:
i've heard some gory horrific stories. if anyone wants to kill themselves, this is definitely not the way to go. sometimes the people that attempt death by subway don't always die or die right away. i'll spare all of you the details of what i've heard.
also, if you ever been on a subway train and it had to stop somewhere in a tunnel due to a delay or some other excuse, chances are that somebody just killed themselves (or tried to). if you're ever on a stopped or delayed train, don't get upset about your delay and hope that it really was equipment failure, etc.