Japan’s Internet suicide pacts

[calgan]

the news story

June 10 — The discovery Sunday of the bodies of four young Japanese men in a car at a vista point near Mount Fuji appears to be more evidence of a grim new trend in the prosperous country — group suicides of strangers who meet over the Internet. The suicide pacts, which have resulted in at least 18 deaths since February, are shocking to experts, even in a nation plagued by an astronomical suicide rate.

 

[ratfish]

I read the whole article. That's scary. It's interesteing how they have a name for the disease.

I consider myself anti-social, but not enough to commit suicide. I don't want to be mean, but don't they have something better to do than suicide. I mean, come on, you have to have something better to do than that. I still can't see how somebody can actually bring themself to the mentality to actually go through with it.

That's really sad.

 

[Fstuff]

If someone's suicidal, they're not likely to be thinking about their life and situation rationally, as we can quite easily do now.

I very much doubt they 'brought themselves to the mentality' purposely, because they 'had nothing better to do'.