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Freight-Train Suicide Autopsies Spark Rail Industry Prevention Measures

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FROM THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY

Most did not have access to guns. "This becomes the substitute firearm," he said.

The study was funded by a federal grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to the Railroad Research Foundation, an industry group that that contracted the AAS to do the research. Neither Dr. Berman and nor Dr. Sundararaman reported disclosures.