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Japanās Internet suicide pacts
calgan - Jun 16, 2003
  calgan Jun 16, 2003
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 Jun 16, 2003
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 Jun 21, 2003
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'.