We have got one under, here

Today, I can say, has been probably one of the most stressful, long and tiring day of my life.
Everything I tried to do just went wrong, inevitably wrong and the thing is that...the day is not over jet!

These are the days when I actually get the urge to commit suicide, but while to me the desire to kill myself passes after a deep sigh and a kind of hysterical laugh, for other people, refrain from committing suicide is a bit more difficult, sometimes impossible.

London Underground has a long and sad tradition about people injured in the Tube and suicides, so, when the film Three and Out came out it caused lots of protests and complaints from both the train driver union and the passengers.



Now, the most common phrase I say when I am joking about committing suicides is: "Well, lets jump off a bridge" or, in anyways, the setting I have always imagined for my death is completely different from the London Underground, such a boring and depressing place, but apparently there are people who do really love the London Underground "to death".

Apparently King's Cross and Victoria stations are the most chosen places, I don't know, I don't have my "favorite suicide Tube station", I hope none of you have one, but is it possible that the atmosphere in those two stations is so depressing to incite suicides?!

Some station have pits beneath the track, originally made to aid drainage of water from the platform, with the intent to prevent incidents, injuries, and falls .
They are called "anti-suicide pits" or "dead man's trenches", and they actually don't seem to work well enough.

I know that take the Tube doesn't have to be a fun experience, but if Transports of London could make the atmosphere in the Tube more pleasant and "agreable", but maybe if there were some flowers, colored cushions, who knows...

Lights, Camera, Action!!!

In the last few years London Underground has been a good set for some horror films and comedies like Creep and the largely criticized Three and Out accused of being immoral and inappropriate as suicides in the Tube are a very serious and sad issue.

Creep, a film which came out at the cinemas in 2004, is about a girl locked in overnight on the London Underground, stalked by a deformed killer living in the sewers below.
The film, directed by Cristopher Smith, retakes the plot from two other horror films set in the Tube: Death Line (1972) and An American Werewolf In London.

Sliding Doors , directed by Peter Howitt, is a film, a bit tragic, but not a horror, whose turning point is the London Underground, in particular the so much hated closing doors of the trains between which people get stuck every day trying to get in.

The story is about Hellen Quilley (Gwyneth Paltrow) whose life is split into two parallel lives; one of the Hellen who managed to take the train and got home finding her boyfriend cheating on her, and the other one of the Hellen who didn't take the train going towards a different destiny.

It's really incredible how a "closing door" can make such a difference to your life...so, thats made me think that: every time I get to the platform two seconds too late and the doors close in front of me...would my day have been different if I have caught that train?...who knows...