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According to wikipedia, suicide by train is common in Japan. In an effort to suppress this, life insurance policies often refuse to pay out for suicide by train and surviving family members may be fined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods#Rail

ascar on Sept 2, 2020 [–]

Japanese train stations also have soothing blue lights to prevent suicide and specially created jingles that are supposed to calm people down.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/the-amazi...

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