Suicide Forest
Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji is known throughout Japan as "suicide forest" because many go there to take their own lives. It has the highest suicide rate in Japan (which itself has one of the highest suicide rates in the world). Apparently it's pretty common to find people dead or dying as you wander through the forest. Signs with the number for a suicide hotline have now been posted on many of the trees.
Other suicide hotspots around the world: The Golden Gate bridge is an obvious one. It's the most popular place to commit suicide in the US. In the UK, the welsh mining town of Bridgend has a reputation as a suicide hotspot, though I think it's the locals who commit suicide, rather than people purposefully traveling there for that purpose.
Then there's Overtoun Bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland which has a reputation as a suicide hotspot for dogs, due to the fact that in the past fifty years, fifty dogs have leapt off it to their deaths.
Other suicide hotspots around the world: The Golden Gate bridge is an obvious one. It's the most popular place to commit suicide in the US. In the UK, the welsh mining town of Bridgend has a reputation as a suicide hotspot, though I think it's the locals who commit suicide, rather than people purposefully traveling there for that purpose.
Then there's Overtoun Bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland which has a reputation as a suicide hotspot for dogs, due to the fact that in the past fifty years, fifty dogs have leapt off it to their deaths.
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Those poor Scottish dogs may just have needed enemas (enemae?).
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 03/20/09 at 12:32 PM
But do you get the reincarnation option if you commit suicide? I always thought that if you killed yourself, that was the end of the road for your soul. Or is reincarnation a more spiritual belief than one supported by organized religion? Encyclopedia says reincarnation is "the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions" Where are the religious experts...
And what's a hungry ghost?
And what's a hungry ghost?
Posted by Nethie on 03/20/09 at 07:31 PM
i guess North America should be over-run with hungry ghosts these days....
Posted by maeganmcg on 03/22/09 at 12:21 PM
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Category: Death | Suicide