Yesterday
A 16 year-old girl commited suicide by jumping from the 3rd floor of Bentalls Mall in Kingston. She plummeted, whacked her leg on one of the jutting out bits, ripping it off, and then smacked to the basement floor and presuambly exploded.
Very haunting...all the students at Kingston Uni go there...I was there the day before.
What REALLY gets me is that she did it in Bentalls. It's very tall, so yeah she would have fucking blown up upon impact, but also the basement is where McDonalds is, and where LOADS of Schoolchildren sit and eat (outside the restaurant). How traumatising for them to have seen that. And what if she'd fallen on someone? Oh yeah, Mothercare is in the basement too. Nice for the little kids to see. VERY selfish I think.
Anyway.
Some friends and I went today, it was strange to be there.