Renton is in his mid-twenties, around twenty five years of age.
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It is also the name of the book by Irvine Welsh on which the movie is based on. There is a chapter in the book titled Trainspotting at Leith Central Station which talks about a train station that is about to be demolished and replaced with a shopping center, Renton and Begbie run into a bum at the station who asks them if they are "trainspotting". There has not been a train at the station for years, the station is a reference to the dead end situation that the characters of the book find themselves in. The bum at the station is Begbie's father. This scene was not in the movie.
Trainspotting.
Renton Kirk died on September 28, 2004, in Fire Island, New York, USA of drowning.
Starvation/neglection. All the main characters are too busy shooting up and the baby dies.
Eric knows that he is possibly in trouble, either through drinking or getting Daisy Renton pregnant.