MORE PICS – TRAGIC DEATH; Man Leapt 5 m Down PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE in LRT STATION to JALAN AMPANG, Wednesday Afternoon.

ABOVE: The overhead bridge (in Dang Wangi LRT Station) where the man suffering from depression fell to his death below


A 35 Year old man suffering from depression leapt to his death after jumping from the Dang Wangi overhead bridge onto Jalan Ampang on Wednesday The incident happened at about 1.30pm between peak hours at the LRT station.

According to an eye witness, the man was seen paving up and down the pedestrian bridge for sometime before jumping down the 5.1m bridge. Miraculously, he was not run over by any car at that time

The victim was identified as Tham Weng Wooi, 35 and suffered massive head injuries due to the fall. The Police had to close a section of the road before the body was removed causing quite a bit of a jam as onlookers slowdown to have a closer look.

The lunchtime crowd and the slow down traffic required police control

Malaysian Red Crescent society received and emergency call and arrived to take the remains to KL hospital for a post mortem

Notes on suicide

No man dies unless he wants to die, and for a much better reason than that you want him to. There is always some conscious recognition, however, though the individual may play tricks with himself and pretend it is not there. Even animals sense their dying ahead of time and on that level man or woman is no different.

Sometimes you think of suicide as ignominious and passive, but of war as aggressive and powerful. Both are equally the result of passivity and distorted aggression and of natural pathways of communications not used or understood

However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form.

Some people might say, I have a right to die, when they are arguing the case for suicide. And while this is true, it is also true that the people on our planet need every bit of help and encouragement they can get from each person alive. In a certain sense, the energy of each individual does keep the world going, and to commit suicide is to refuse a basic, cooperative venture.

Left alone, the self and the body are so entwined that the separation would be smooth. The body would automatically follow the wishes of the inner self. In the case of suicide, for example, the self is to some extent acting out of context with the body, which still has its own will to live.

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