This is a far too common occurrence and the source of many a delay on the Underground. Someone has simply had enough and decided to throw themselves under a tube train. Between 2000 and 2010 there were a total of 644 suicides with the annual number reaching 80 by 2011. Unsurprisingly, the highest number occurred on the Northern Line. Whats awful about this is not the inconvenience or the delay caused, and its not even the fact someone has just killed themselves. Its the fact that its announced so casually over the speaker system. You are delayed because someone has ended their own life and everyone just finds a different route and goes about their business as usual as if its no big deal. But hey, free Activia samples at Tower Hill!
Created in a petri dish in an underground lab, I was originally designed by scientists to carry out high-profile assassinations for the CIA. Unfortunately, something went wrong and my only skill was writing list-based articles. So now I do that instead.
