Some Darwin Awards are just sad.

[Baitball Blogger]

Man dies after jumping from moving train to get phone

The 26-year-old Miami man who made headlines earlier this week after he jumped from a moving train to get his cellphone has died from his injuries, the Associated Press is reporting.

Eddie Diaz pulled an emergency lever on a Miami-bound train Monday night after he realized he left his cellphone on a bench at the station. Before the train could come to a complete stop, Diaz pried open the doors and jumped onto the platform, according to the West Palm Beach Police Department,

But the slick concrete prevented Diaz from sticking the landing and he slipped on the platform and sustained a head injury.

Diaz's family made the decision Friday to take him off life support, the Palm Beach Post reports.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/blogs/gone-viral/os-man-jumped-from-train-dies-101313,0,4578335.post

[valerief]

1. Stupid is not sad. Sorry, but it just isn't. nt

[Sheldon Cooper]

2. What's sad is mocking people who are now dead by bestowing the Darwin Award on them.

Shows a real lack of empathy on the part of the award-giver.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Or, by elevating the incident to a tongue-in-cheek award,

it helps to wake everybody else up to show how foolish and unnecessary acts can bring on our own demise.

[Sheldon Cooper]

4. Keep telling yourself that.

The 'award winner' is still dead.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I can't change the fact that he's dead,

but I can agree with bringing attention to how he died to send a message to anyone who even thinks about repeating his error.

[aquart]

6. And that is sacred and honorable?

This IDIOT tossed his life, broke the hearts of all who loved him, for a PHONE.

[Chan790]

7. A condition unto which he rendered himself.

Thus meeting the criterion of the classification of "Darwin Award Winner".

By no means should it be considered a prize...it's more like proper taxonomy. If we're not going to call it a Darwin Award, it becomes compelling to point out that as far as the ME is concerned...it's a death by result of his own deliberate action: a suicide rather than a death by accidental cause.

The world is not shiny, bright and kind. We are not beautiful and unique snowflakes. Bad things happen when people do dumb things...and others learn from their mistakes. It's a form of intellectual evolution.

The vacuum cleaner designer and inventor James Dyson famously says that it took 41 tries to make the Dyson vacuum cleaner and not one of those previous 40 is a failure as they provided results and feedback that influenced the subsequent efforts. Likewise, Diaz's death and Darwin Award is not a mockery but a paean to progress: based on his failure, the next person to leave their phone on a bench while boarding a train will remember Eddie Diaz and not pull the emergency-stop before leaping to their death in recognition that their phone is replaceable and they are not.

[hobbit709]

8. If you flout the physical laws governing the universe there is no do over.

The laws of gravity and momentum show no mercy.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. I used to enjoy things like this...

Until I heard the term "Darwin Award" applied to a guy I knew from college.

He lived across from me in the dorms my first semester, and was my roommate's best friend. Was a fun guy, liked to party, and had a passion for all things tiki. He also had a passion for prescription painkillers. And that's how he died. He was taking Fentanyl patches, lighting them on fire and inhaling the fumes. One night he did this, went to sleep, and never woke up. When the story of his death made the local paper, the term "Darwin Award" was being slung about in the article's comments section.

RIP, P. You are missed.

[petronius]

10. These are the scary one, to me. Granted that the pulling of the emergency stop

and prying the doors open was pretty over the top, but what it really boils down to is slipping on concrete and dying from it. And who doesn't take a quick or thoughtless step now and then?

Poor guy, and tough for the family...