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p2pnet.net News:- “Suicide pacts a grim and growing trend for Japan”
That’s the headline in a Reuters story quoting a message in a Japanese Internet chat room that reads: “Everything’s horrible, I want to die. Who will die with me?”
“Four people were found dead in a minivan parked in a vacant lot in Hokkaido on Thursday morning in a suspected case of group suicide,” says a Japan Today story. “One male appeared to be in his late teens and the other two around 20 and 30, and the woman around 30 …”
And, “All throughout Japanese history the matter of suicide has been refined to almost socially acceptable behaivior,” says a post under the Japan Today report.
“[…] within the last decade the trend of group suicides has risen. There are even websites people can go to where they can meet others who are considering ending their lives. In my research I find that more often than not, they do find others and they proceed to these mass suicides.”
Suicide pacts are not, however, unique to Japan.
Recently, an Oregon man was said to used an online message slugged, ‘Suicide party you want to join it’ as part of his plan for a Valentine’s Day mass suicide.
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late teens - 4 found dead in minivan in Hokkaido in group suicide, Japan Today, February 18, 2005
Suicide party - Net Valentine’s Day suicide pact, p2pnet, February 13, 2005
February 18th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
*wears a shirt that says: “I hate my life and I want to die”, with stars and a rainbow on it*
http://www.engrish-store.com/ihatmystshir.html
soooo do the japanese except suicide as an honorable death? well they used to… but these days its a little different…
http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/revolver.jpg
yes, if I killed my self, I’d do it in a group of people! XD
February 18th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
I was in Japan over the summer, spending time with a friend of mine… and I was shocked to see that a lot of Japanese school girls carry around “Gloomy Bear”!
Its a little “Japanified” bear that has really long claws and kills people, and children seem to love him for it. XD
Japanese girls concider this VERY cute… and when I asked them why, they had no anwser… just repeated ‘very cute’. XD
Whatever ^_^ love them for it XD
http://www.chax.net/
http://www.sweatyfrog.com/gloomy6.html
February 19th, 2005 at 2:54 am
fukking hell !!!!
February 19th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
English Media Reports misuderstanding the difference between “group suicide” and media dubbed “internet suicde pacts”- a grim and and growing trend for inaccurate, badly researched and misleading
As the reuteurs report say “The way these suicides are carried out is very sensational for the media….. (and) Saito, at the suicide hotline, warned that group suicides should not be blown out of proportion, adding that they make up only 2 percent of all Japanese suicides.
“The vast majority of suicides in Japan are by hanging,” he said. “But that’s not dramatic, so it doesn’t make the news.”
So if you are interested in getting a deeper, hype free and spin free report on so called suiciced internet pacts just check out these online resources from’Japan Mental Health’ Blog written by some of the many of the mental healthcare professional living and working in Japan, who know from personal experience in their eveyday work the true reality behind the hype of the sentational and often sterotypical press and media reports on Suidide in Japan 2004:
Japan Suicide Pacts
http://www2.gol.com/users/andrew/2005/02/japan-suicide-pacts.html
Japan Suicide
http://www2.gol.com/users/andrew/2005/02/suicide-reports-2005.html