As a person working in Vermont with people who attempted suicide, or want to, the scenarios I described are incredibly common. More so than you think. Very very very many people do not share your reality.

I absolutely feel for this engineer and anyone else who witnessed or was impacted by her death

And

While this seems like it was intentional, we can’t just assume she was a person who was depressed and has decided to die.

She may have been struggling with a different reality that contributed to her actions. For instance, if a person was under the delusion that killing themselves this way would save the rest of humanity from getting hit by an asteroid, would you have a different opinion of her? If she was hallucinating that children were on the tracks and she opted to get hit first, so they didn’t, would you have a different opinion of her?

Bring your own bags to the grocery store!

The tower or the old shelter in Hubbard park, the museum next to the state house, the library (😍😍😍😍), maybe somewhere in the college but I’m not familiar with the buildings, it’s beautiful though. If the library is an option, I’d take that 100000%. How cool.