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    Default The Forest of Suicides - Aokigahara Forest

    Aokigahara

    Aokigahara is a forest that lies at the base of Mount Fuji, less than 100 miles west of Tokyo. Locally, it is also known under the name of Jukai ("Sea of Trees") because of its very high density of trees.

    It is also very sought-after by tourists because there are two caves located here, The Ice Cave and the Wind Cave.

    It is a unique forest in many ways; there is barely any wildlife in here, thus it is very quiet, making it a popular destination among locals. However, this quietness hides a more macabre side of it as the Aokigahara is the number one suicide spot for Japanese.

    Its quietness has attracted people to consider it haunted, and there are plenty of Japanese who would not dare to enter the forest. This resulted in even more myths surrounding Aokigahara.



    When you enter it, there are signs in both Japanese and English preventing people against a suicide. One sign at the entrance reads: "Your life is something precious that was given to you by your parents" while another one states "Meditate on your parents, siblings and your children once more. Do not be troubled alone." The exact number of suicides committed here in a year is unknown as the police discontinued publishing this data. The last time it was made public was in 2003, when 105 confirmed suicides took place. Here is a graph showing the data between 1998 and 2003:



    This data is the official one. It is believed that annually more people die here, but their corpses are never found in the thick forest.

    It is hard to make a profile of the average person who commits suicide in the forest, but they are usually males between 40 and 50 years, and the biggest month for suicides is March, possibly because March is the end of the fiscal year in Japan. So many people come from all over Japan to end their stressful lives here as they feel it's is the perfect location in which to breathe their last.

    It is baffling why there is such a high rate in the country but it has something to do with the Japanese psyche and that many Japanese men feel rejected when retrenched. Some of them had held important positions in their respective companies, including that of chief executive officers.

    Unable to face their families and loved ones, they perhaps, in the manner of the samurai warriors of the past, felt that suicide is one way to atone for their failures.



    The Aokigahara has not always attracted hundreds of people wishing to end their lives. While there is some evidence that suggests that as far as the 19th century, it was a place where Japanese carried their elders to die of starvation (a practice called ubasute), it became popular after the 1960’s when a novel by famed author Seichō Matsumoto was published. In this novel called "Tower of Waves", a couple commit suicide in the Aokigahara forest. Another book from 1993, “The Complete Manual of Suicide” by Wataru Tsurumi added to the fuel and increased suicide rates. The author described the Aokigahara as the perfect place to commit suicide and even described which parts of the forests are less circulated so the bodies cannot be found later on.



    An annual body sweep is organized before the holiday season in which the found dead bodies are removed and, where possible, identified.


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    Some "fun" facts on suicide

    Nasty, btw, while we're on weird forests.Check this out.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooked_Forest
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    Yeah, I know about this forest. We used to talk about it with our Japanese teacher. She told us pretty much all of the things written in this article.

    Creepy but at the same time interesting.

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    ah man i will definitely have a nightmare.

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    I watched a documentary about this forest. Very creepy.

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    The suicide rate is a direct result of the culture of living to work in Japan, and also resulting in their dwindling birth rate.

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    What suicides?I killed 'em all
    https://i.imgur.com/kCivWcA.jpg

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    An interesting article. It's eerie but intriguing at the same time as to why this happens. It's sad as we only get one precious life which should be cherished.

    3 business execs committed suicide in one year by jumping off the top of a sky restaurant in London a few years ago, (one of whom couldn't bear the thought of his children not being able to go a private school anymore), plus a millionaire in England who lost his business, set fire to his home, his horse stables, and killed himself, his pets, his horses, and his family.

    A wealthy German businessman also killed himself a few years ago too when he lost everything.

    I think people who have very high pressured jobs and a lot of wealth can't imagine living like ordinary people.... the higher they climb in life, the bigger the drop is for them if they lose everything they own.

    I think the less wealthy seem to be stronger and more resilient and used to coping with having less material wealth in life - and there's a saying that what doesn't kill you will make you stronger in coping in life.... it's normally the very wealthy who fall to pieces when they lose everything they have.
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    Quote Originally Posted by English Rose View Post
    I think people who have very high pressured jobs and a lot of wealth can't imagine living like ordinary people.... the higher they climb in life, the bigger the drop is for them if they lose everything they own.

    I think the less wealthy seem to be stronger and more resilient and used to coping with having less material wealth in life - and there's a saying that what doesn't kill you will make you stronger in coping in life.... it's normally the very wealthy who fall to pieces when they lose everything they have.
    Perhaps it's just that the bigger fishes make a bigger splash when they fall, and we simply don't even notice the smaller ones?
    „Beer has it's own way of sorting things out, does it not?“

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