Canada: Dozens choose death by train each year. Transit agencies are stepping up

Dr. Antoon Leenaars recalls a patient who saw the same train pass by her kitchen window each day as she sank deeper into depression. Eventually, she jumped in front of it.

“This woman would see this train and see this train. Every day, she was reminded of this method,” said Leenaars, a Windsor-based psychologist known for his research on suicide. And the more fixated someone is on a particular means of death, he said, the more likely they are to act.

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