group suicide in china and japan getting trendy

[glitterypearls]

I seen it on tiktok there was 4 people
in china who took something toxic and jumped off a cliff and apparently its getting popular, I love that because it means you won't die alone, I wish it was more normalized, because dying alone in a room or a hotel is so depressing and our last moments shouldn't be alone.

 

[lukas19]

I think if i lived in China i would have CTB many years ago, such a horrendous regime they have. Also the media/social media amplify how bad the world is at the moment (maybe it might have always that bad but now our eyes have been opened due how quick info' is passed)

 

[Ambivalent1]

Is the partners megathread good? I'd be questioning the whole time if they were legit.

 

[lukas19]

Is the partners megathread good? I'd be questioning the whole time if they were legit.

It's ok, seems to be hard to find a reliable partner (tho' I've come across a newspaper article about a couple who meet on here and CTBed together, sure there has been more.)
Dunno if legit but probably would have been taken down if BS as there will be copycats.

 

[outrider567]

In India, a man and a woman a few days ago built a homemade guillotine, which worked for both of them

 

[glitterypearls]

Is the partners megathread good? I'd be questioning the whole time if they were legit.

I'd not trust it, anyone can join this site and therefore you can't trust them. worse case they will hurt you and cause you more trauma/bad things to live with such as rape or any physical assault or if they weren't dangerous they might report you to the police for attempt to CTB. a member here trusted someone with her phone number and they found her address and ended up reporting her to the police which delayed her CTB attempt.

I think if i lived in China i would have CTB many years ago, such a horrendous regime they have. Also the media/social media amplify how bad the world is at the moment (maybe it might have always that bad but now our eyes have been opened due how quick info' is passed)

I don't think its about that, those 4 people were suicidal because of poverty and their family lacked a way to support them either mentally or financially (uneducated) so they went online and found each other, from the tiktok I seen the media and people trying to blame the internet for it but it's clear who is to blame here.

 

[Mr. Squiggles]

I seen it on tiktok there was 4 people
in china who took something toxic and jumped off a cliff and apparently its getting popular, I love that because it means you won't die alone, I wish it was more normalized, because dying alone in a room or a hotel is so depressing and our last moments shouldn't be alone.

there was a book in japan, but i cannot recall its' name, which inspired a lot of people to choose the sea of trees, aokigahara, i think, as their final destinations.

the number of suicides went up year after year and they had clean-up groups comb through the forest at least annually. i wanted to go there, too.

they stopped publishing numbers, but they still go after the remains.
edit: it was 'a tower of waves'

 

[Archness]

According to "official sources" china has the lowest ctb rates in the world....

But it's china, they censor shit to make the country look good. It's probably has the HIGHEST rates of suicide.

Look at this, people are just giving up :

 

[RUPA]

It seems to make sense that China has the lowest suicide rate in the world. Chinese people are also known to have a very low rate of suicide even among the Asian population living in the US. On the other hand, Korea, my birth country, has been the country with the highest suicide rate over the past 15 consecutive years among OECD, or industrialized countries. Living in that country is really tough. The societal pressure, discrimination of all sorts, competition. constant comparison are too intense in everyday life.

Suicide news floods major media outlets every day. Suicide in Korea is more of a social issue, social murder and a social phenomenon rather than a purely personal issue as in Western countries, generally speaking. I often come across news that 3 or more men and women ( I haven't seen 2 ) in Korea met through the internet, SNS and committed suicide together. Recently, I saw the news that two women in their 20's and one woman in her 40's met from online and killed themselves by carbon monoxide poisoning (aka 번개탄, one of the most favorite suicide methods in Korea) in a car.

These days, news of family murder-suicides caused by extreme financial difficulties and debt is exploding. In addition, suicides of victims (mostly young people in their 20's 30's) who were defrauded by scams taking advantage of institutional/legal loopholes of Korea's unique lease/rent system (aka 전세) are also being reported continuously. Korea probably far exceeds Japan and China (the incident in the original post seems to be an exceptional case) in group suicides, family murder-suicides, youth suicides as well as elderly suicides. Treating the prevalence of suicides as a passing trend would be an underestimation of the issue in Korea. Suicide including group suicide in Korea is a chronic social pathology. It is indeed a lamentable deplorable situation where no signs of resolution or alleviation are in sight.

 

[user_name_here]

Is the partners megathread good? I'd be questioning the whole time if they were legit.

I would stay away from it. People have been hurt and even r worded irl via that sub forum. It's been in the news. Please be careful

 

[mypersonalhell]

I would stay away from it. People have been hurt and even r worded irl via that sub forum. It's been in the news. Please be careful

Curious, could you share that news article?

 

[user_name_here]

Curious, could you share that news article?

Search ss in the news threads, or web search this forum and kidnap. Or even some of the YouTube documentaries on this site.

A man in Scotland kidnapped and r worded two members he met via partners threads, he did this in his house before being arrested and sentenced. It wasn't an isolated incident.

Other members can validate this. I'm not trying to clog up my web history with red flag search prompts but it happened/happens.

 

[Abdullah]

It seems to make sense that China has the lowest suicide rate in the world. Chinese people are also known to have a very low rate of suicide even among the Asian population living in the US. On the other hand, Korea, my birth country, has been the country with the highest suicide rate over the past 15 consecutive years among OECD, or industrialized countries. Living in that country is really tough. The societal pressure, discrimination of all sorts, competition. constant comparison are too intense in everyday life.

Suicide news floods major media outlets every day. Suicide in Korea is more of a social issue, social murder and a social phenomenon rather than a purely personal issue as in Western countries, generally speaking. I often come across news that 3 or more men and women ( I haven't seen 2 ) in Korea met through the internet, SNS and committed suicide together. Recently, I saw the news that two women in their 20's and one woman in her 40's met from online and killed themselves by carbon monoxide poisoning (aka 번개탄, one of the most favorite suicide methods in Korea) in a car.

These days, news of family murder-suicides caused by extreme financial difficulties and debt is exploding. In addition, suicides of victims (mostly young people in their 20's 30's) who were defrauded by scams taking advantage of institutional/legal loopholes of Korea's unique lease/rent system (aka 전세) are also being reported continuously. Korea probably far exceeds Japan and China (the incident in the original post seems to be an exceptional case) in group suicides, family murder-suicides, youth suicides as well as elderly suicides. Treating the prevalence of suicides as a passing trend would be an underestimation of the issue in Korea. Suicide including group suicide in Korea is a chronic social pathology. It is indeed a lamentable deplorable situation where no signs of resolution or alleviation are in sight.

If the 9th president of your country can take his life, that must be a tolerated social standard.

In India, a man and a woman a few days ago built a homemade guillotine, which worked for both of them

I read that story. It was a sacrifice to Lord Shiva (The Hindu God of destruction).

 

[Archness]

It seems to make sense that China has the lowest suicide rate in the world. Chinese people are also known to have a very low rate of suicide even among the Asian population living in the US. On the other hand, Korea, my birth country, has been the country with the highest suicide rate over the past 15 consecutive years among OECD, or industrialized countries. Living in that country is really tough. The societal pressure, discrimination of all sorts, competition. constant comparison are too intense in everyday life.

Suicide news floods major media outlets every day. Suicide in Korea is more of a social issue, social murder and a social phenomenon rather than a purely personal issue as in Western countries, generally speaking. I often come across news that 3 or more men and women ( I haven't seen 2 ) in Korea met through the internet, SNS and committed suicide together. Recently, I saw the news that two women in their 20's and one woman in her 40's met from online and killed themselves by carbon monoxide poisoning (aka 번개탄, one of the most favorite suicide methods in Korea) in a car.

These days, news of family murder-suicides caused by extreme financial difficulties and debt is exploding. In addition, suicides of victims (mostly young people in their 20's 30's) who were defrauded by scams taking advantage of institutional/legal loopholes of Korea's unique lease/rent system (aka 전세) are also being reported continuously. Korea probably far exceeds Japan and China (the incident in the original post seems to be an exceptional case) in group suicides, family murder-suicides, youth suicides as well as elderly suicides. Treating the prevalence of suicides as a passing trend would be an underestimation of the issue in Korea. Suicide including group suicide in Korea is a chronic social pathology. It is indeed a lamentable deplorable situation where no signs of resolution or alleviation are in sight.

I don't think the suicide rates of Chinese immigrants in US is reflective of Chinese still in china. Chinese society is relatively wealthy, but also experiences many social problems common in east Asia. It also manages to be a collectivist society where everyone's looking out for themselves, somehow; authoritarianism with high corruption, crime, and gutter oil. Being a china man (not immigrant) is still a difficult and shit life unless your higher on the hierarchy. I've learned these things about china through Serpentza and China Insights, on youtube.

China just solving suicide with suicide nets is a meme for a reason. Guess who provided those statistics? China! Would the same country with high corruption, tofu-dreg, gutter oil, toxic foods, suicide nets, 996, etc, would that kind of country somehow have the most effective suicide-reduction in recorded history, or would it just modify it's statistics?