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Has /jp/ ever contemplated suicide at least once?
See, somehow I'm of the mind that while everyone here is a nihilist fuck who doesn't do anything to improve his life, nobody has the guts of voluntarily ending his existence because deep down he's too much to attached to it. No matter how irredeemably shitty it is.
But I might be actually wrong, who knows.

What's it like to lie down in front of a tra

Japan's suicide rate is crazy. For comparison, the number of suicides in America is around 33000 a year. That might sound bad too, but consider that we have 300 million people with guns, but Japan only has 127 million. They're killing themselves twice as fast!

If you were born a Japanese, would you be more inclined to kill yourself because it's more socially acceptable there compared to where you currently live right now?

TOKYO (Reuters) - Over 33,000 people took their lives in Japan last year, topping 30,000 for the tenth consecutive year despite a government campaign to reduce what is one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

A report issued by the National Police Agency on Thursday showed that 33,093 people killed themselves in Japan in 2007 -- the second-largest number on record after 34,427 in 2003 -- mostly because of debt, family problems, depression and other health issues.

There was also a leap in the number of suicides involving toxic hydrogen sulphide gas made from household detergents, a previously obscure method that is spreading rapidly as Internet messages tell victims how to produce the poison at home.

"This extremely regrettable situation has been going on for a long time," chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura said of the data.

"It's a very hard problem, but we want to do as much as we can."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080619/lf_nm_life/japan_suicides_dc

suicide thread?

>>535115

so how often are subway train suicides happening nowadays in japan?