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Web suicide pacts sweep Japan
Desperate individuals
By John Leyden
Published Friday 10th February 2006 10:48 GMT
The number of Japanese people who killed themselves after making suicide pacts forged over the internet almost doubled last year. Ninety-one people topped themselves in groups after meeting on the net during 2005, compared with 55 in 2004 and 34 in 2003, when the National Police Agency in Japan began keeping records of the disturbing phenomenon.
Desperate individuals in their 20s accounted for 40 per cent of these figures, or 38 deaths, 39 were in their 30s, while eight youngsters between 10 and 19 ended their lives after forming online death pacts. Fifty four of the 91 suicides were males and 37 were females.
In response to this growing trend, Japanese ISPs have begun passing on details of people who post suicide pact messages on sites they host to police, local English language paper The Daily Yomiuri reports. Since October 2005 when ISPs drew up guidelines on the practice, and the end of 2005, police intervened in 12 cases involving information about 14 people, 12 of whom were taken into protective custody.
The BBC reports that Japan has one of the world's highest suicide rates and online pacts make only a small contribution to a much larger problem. A downturn in the Japanese economy was followed by an upsurge in suicide by 35 per cent in 1998. Deaths by suicide have exceeded 30,000 in every year since.
The idea of suicide pacts appeals to desperate individuals frightened of dying alone. Those that look will find no shortage of data online including an online guidebook that gives advice on the best locations to take your own life.
"Many people are too scared to die alone," said Yumiko Misaki, director of the Tokyo Inochi no Denwa (Phone of Life), a suicide counselling service, told Reuters. "So they reach each other through the internet and make arrangements.
"And the worst thing is that people are often very influenced by reporting on this, so it's likely to keep on increasing." ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/10/ja...ide_pact_surge/
Desperate individuals
By John Leyden
Published Friday 10th February 2006 10:48 GMT
The number of Japanese people who killed themselves after making suicide pacts forged over the internet almost doubled last year. Ninety-one people topped themselves in groups after meeting on the net during 2005, compared with 55 in 2004 and 34 in 2003, when the National Police Agency in Japan began keeping records of the disturbing phenomenon.
Desperate individuals in their 20s accounted for 40 per cent of these figures, or 38 deaths, 39 were in their 30s, while eight youngsters between 10 and 19 ended their lives after forming online death pacts. Fifty four of the 91 suicides were males and 37 were females.
In response to this growing trend, Japanese ISPs have begun passing on details of people who post suicide pact messages on sites they host to police, local English language paper The Daily Yomiuri reports. Since October 2005 when ISPs drew up guidelines on the practice, and the end of 2005, police intervened in 12 cases involving information about 14 people, 12 of whom were taken into protective custody.
The BBC reports that Japan has one of the world's highest suicide rates and online pacts make only a small contribution to a much larger problem. A downturn in the Japanese economy was followed by an upsurge in suicide by 35 per cent in 1998. Deaths by suicide have exceeded 30,000 in every year since.
The idea of suicide pacts appeals to desperate individuals frightened of dying alone. Those that look will find no shortage of data online including an online guidebook that gives advice on the best locations to take your own life.
"Many people are too scared to die alone," said Yumiko Misaki, director of the Tokyo Inochi no Denwa (Phone of Life), a suicide counselling service, told Reuters. "So they reach each other through the internet and make arrangements.
"And the worst thing is that people are often very influenced by reporting on this, so it's likely to keep on increasing." ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/10/ja...ide_pact_surge/
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Seven dead in net suicide pact
Japanese police probe web link
By Lester Haines
Published Tuesday 12th October 2004 10:58 GMT
Seven young Japanese found suffocated to death in a car are believed to have died as a result of an internet suicide pact, Reuters reports.
The seven - four men and three women - were discovered in the vehicle in Minano, near Tokyo. The deceased sealed the car windows from the inside and lit charcoal burners. They succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Shortly after the grisly discovery, police found another car to the south of Tokyo containing the bodies of two women, although whether this second apparent suicide is related remains unconfirmed.
Police say that one of the seven deceased sent an email on Monday to a friend declaring his intention to kill himself. "We believe they got acquainted through the internet," said a police spokesman. Authorities report that since police became aware of internet suicide pacts in early 2003, 34 people had died as a result.
More than 34,000 Japanese killed themselves in 2003 - a seven per cent rise on 2002. Economic difficulties and social alienation have been fingered as possible causes for the high rate of suicide among Japan's young people. Many websites cater for the country's terminally depressed, and services range from bringing together those wishing to end it all, to recommending the best locations to die. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/12/net_suicide_pact/
Japanese police probe web link
By Lester Haines
Published Tuesday 12th October 2004 10:58 GMT
Seven young Japanese found suffocated to death in a car are believed to have died as a result of an internet suicide pact, Reuters reports.
The seven - four men and three women - were discovered in the vehicle in Minano, near Tokyo. The deceased sealed the car windows from the inside and lit charcoal burners. They succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Shortly after the grisly discovery, police found another car to the south of Tokyo containing the bodies of two women, although whether this second apparent suicide is related remains unconfirmed.
Police say that one of the seven deceased sent an email on Monday to a friend declaring his intention to kill himself. "We believe they got acquainted through the internet," said a police spokesman. Authorities report that since police became aware of internet suicide pacts in early 2003, 34 people had died as a result.
More than 34,000 Japanese killed themselves in 2003 - a seven per cent rise on 2002. Economic difficulties and social alienation have been fingered as possible causes for the high rate of suicide among Japan's young people. Many websites cater for the country's terminally depressed, and services range from bringing together those wishing to end it all, to recommending the best locations to die. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/12/net_suicide_pact/
just damn...
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lol
i still find it really sad tho but i guess its better if you dont die alone 