A pact for suicide by train, coroner rules

Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 03/01/2010 | KITTY CAPARELLA & STEPHANIE FARR

[Kid Shelleen]

In their last moments, Gina C. Gentile, 17, and Vanessa Michele Dorwart, 15, hugged each other on the tracks in a suicide pact as a 100-plus mph Acela train blew a warning whistle before ending their lives at 10:33 a.m. last Thursday.

A third member of the suicide pact screamed for the girls to get off the tracks, after deciding not to join them.

That was the conclusion Saturday of the Delaware County medical examiner, who ruled that the Interboro High School students' deaths were a suicide-by-train at the Norwood train station, about 10 miles southwest of Philadelphia

[naturalized]

Poor girls. Not a good way to meet your Maker.

[GeronL]

Al Gore should be charged with manslaughter by proxy or something

[cpa4you]

I use to take the MARC train from Martinsburg to Union Station in DC.

three times we had death bu suicide.

It was very tragic, not just for those killed, but, for the train crews, as well.

They took it very personally.

So very sad. Two teens and a woman in her 80’s. All the suicides were women?

[ConservaTexan]

0bama’s America.

[GeronL]

Judging from the picture the little sister and brother didn’t seem very emotional about this. How long after her death did the picture get taken?

[canuck_conservative]

And Obama wants high-speed trains all over the country?!

[acoulterfan]

A VIEWING??!!!??

[GeronL]

I would think not.

[Rummyfan]

Gina C. Gentile, 17, and Vanessa Michele Dorwart, 15, hugged each other on the tracks in a suicide pact as a 100-plus mph Acela train blew a warning whistle before ending their lives at 10:33 a.m. last Thursday.

100 mph... at least it was quick for them.

[GeronL]

This was not America. lol. Blame the AGW hoax and kids brainwashed to think humans are killing Earth.

[Blue Jays]

Amtrak Acela interest.

[La Lydia]

What a horrible thing to do to the people who were operating the train.

[KillTime]

About the coldest comment anyone can make for kids comitting suicide.

[Sunshine Sister]

My thoughts exactly. I can’t imagine an open casket viewing after hearing some of the details. Dismemberment was part of the damage. I wouldn’t want to see that under any circumstances!

[Blue Jays]

Suicide by train is hardcore. Most train operators can expect to be at the controls for at least once suicide per career, yet typically more.
On a train in which I was a passenger in 2003, a woman jumped in front of the engine at 75+ mph and it made quite a loud sound. I similarly felt sorry for the train operator.

[Juana la Loca]

Per the article, “Friends of Dorwart and Gentile, both of Glenolden, said that the girls were upset about the death of a friend and classmate, William Bradley V, killed by a car while riding his bicycle to Gentile’s home last month.”

[GeronL]

I guess it was America. lol.

[GeronL]

I thought this was in England. I didn’t know we had trains that went 100 mph. lol.