[londons_explore]

> This article was amended on 14 February 2024 to remove some details for consistency with editorial guidance.

Too gruesome?

[Vecr]

Is the archive at https://archive.is/Q8tZB before or after they did that?

[jayceedenton]

It's before!

A couple I noticed (sorry, not at a computer right now):

> Only with decomposition will they begin to float.

> “There have been people that have jumped off Dartford Bridge and ended up in central London.

Completely unnecessary edits if you ask me.

[l3x]

I expect this was too comply with guidance on reporting on suicide [1]

> Avoid reporting methods of suicide

> Don’t refer to a specific site or location as popular or known for suicides

[1] https://www.samaritans.org/about-samaritans/media-guidelines...

[jayceedenton]

These 'top 10 tips' have put us in a strange place re reporting on suicide. The news becomes very cryptic with a lot that's unsaid.

[closewith]

In Ireland, reporting on specific suicide events is almost completely absent as the effect is so dramatic.

[AlecSchueler]

Same with rioting in the north of Ireland. I grew up near a hotspot in Belfast and violence often went unreported to avoid the situation growing worse or spreading to other areas.

[pixxel]

Dartford is downstream?

[jayceedenton]

I thought the same thing. Of course it is downstream, but I think this is why the person mentioned it: because the journey is surprising.

They're saying that powerful tidal currents caused someone that entered the water at Dartford to end up in central London. A very unexpected result.