Jeremy Clarkson is in hot water again. This time over his comments that people who suicide are selfish. I have always maintained that people who kill themselves are selfish, but I haven’t expressed it in the same way Clarkson has:
“I have the deepest sympathy for anyone whose life is so mangled and messed up that they believe death’s icy embrace will be better,” Clarkson said in his column in the Sun newspaper.
“However, every year around 200 people decide that the best way to go is by hurling themselves in front of a speeding train.
“In some ways they are right. This method has a 90 per cent success rate and it’s extremely quick.
“However, it is a very selfish way to go because the disruption it causes is immense. And think what it’s like for the poor train driver who sees you lying on the line and can do absolutely nothing to avoid a collision.”
Later in the article the presenter referred to those who choose to jump in front of trains as “Johnny Suicide” and argued that following a death, trains should continue on their journeys as soon as possible.
“The train cannot be removed nor the line reopened until all of the victim’s body has been recovered. And sometimes the head can be half a mile away from the feet,” Clarkson adds.
“Change the driver, pick up the big bits of what’s left of the victim, get the train moving as quickly as possible and let foxy woxy and the birds nibble away at the smaller, gooey parts that are far away or hard to find.”
Clarkson really lays down a challenge for Paul Henry with those comments.
