A stinky attempt to kill oneself

[emperor]

We need to be compensated

Please PM me your bank account details so I may deposit the monies...

[Mulboyne]

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Japan evacuates hundreds after latest gas suicide

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in northern Japan on Thursday over fears about hydrogen sulphide gas produced by a man who used it to commit suicide, the latest in a series of such cases. A family member called emergency services after finding a 24-year-old man collapsed at his home in the city of Otaru in the northern island of Hokkaido in the early hours of the morning, local police said. He taken to hospital but later declared dead. The man's 58-year-old mother was also taken to hospital suffering from the effects of the gas, the police spokesman said. Television showed about 350 people being evacuated in the dark from their homes in the area to the grounds of a local primary school. They were allowed to return home later. Suicides by hydrogen sulphide, which can be made from household detergent, are a growing problem in Japan. At least 40 cases have been reported this year, public broadcaster NHK said last month, citing the Japan Suicide Prevention Association...more...

Also:
Asahi: Police ban Internet instructions on producing hydrogen sulfide for suicides

In response to the alarming number of suicides using hydrogen sulfide, the National Police Agency has asked Internet service providers to delete online messages that encourage production and use of the toxic gas. The move came Wednesday after the agency designated as "harmful information" Internet messages that detail production methods and encourage readers to manufacture the gas for suicides. The request is the NPA's first countermeasure to prevent suicides using hydrogen sulfide, which has sickened others who accidentally inhaled the foul-smelling gas...more...

And it's not just for suicide:
Kyodo via Japan Today: Man held over attempting to kill 82-year-old mother with hydrogen sulfide gas

A man in the town of Koori, Fukushima Prefecture, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of attempting to kill his 82-year-old mother by hydrogen sulfide gas—a method recently found to have been used frequently in suicide cases in Japan. Nobuya Matsuno, a 49-year-old farmer, allegedly mixed chemicals such as detergent at his home on Wednesday in a failed attempt to produce hydrogen sulfide gas in order to poison his mother, police said. His father found the suspect mixing chemicals next to his mother who needs nursing care and called the police, they said. The arrest of the man follows a series of cases across Japan of suicide and suicide attempts by hydrogen sulfide gasses. On Thursday morning, about 350 residents in Otaru, Hokkaido, had to temporarily evacuate their homes after a 24-year-old man in the area apparently committed suicide using the toxic gas at his home.

[dimwit]

In response to the alarming number of suicides using hydrogen sulfide, the National Police Agency has asked Internet service providers to delete online messages that encourage production and use of the toxic gas. The move came Wednesday after the agency designated as "harmful information" Internet messages that detail production methods and encourage readers to manufacture the gas for suicides.

Makes you kind of wonder who is posting this kind of shite Aum or Aleph or whatever they call themselves nowdays?

[Not Invented Here]

I wonder how long it will take the MHLW to come up with an instructional website on how to off yourself without causing undue trouble to others? Lots of cutesy illustrations accompanying it, of course. Maybe even stock printable suicide notes?

"Chapter 1: Sleeping pills, how many is enough? [Beginner]"
"Chapter 2: Down the road, not across the street [Intermediate]"
"Chapter 4: Harakiri, the forgotten art [Expert]"

Then again, the falling birth-rate would prove to be a good point to make against that sort of stance.

In that case, I'd go with this slogan:

"Choose life! Honestly, it could be worse; You could be Take!"

[Mulboyne]

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

The Chiyoda-ku business hotel is across the road from the office of my last job. We would often have engineers staying there. The place had bugs in the sofas that may now be fixed with the fumigation. The may also have no more customers either.

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Couple posts warning sign on window before gassing selves to death in car

A man and a woman, both aged in their 20s, gassed themselves to death in a car here by mixing detergents to produce deadly hydrogen sulfide in an apparent suicide pact, police said. At around 12:50 a.m. on Monday, a 27-year-old man from Kyoto Prefecture and a 21-year-old woman from Fukuoka Prefecture were found dead in a car parked near a beach in Echizen by a relative of his, local police said. A piece of paper reading, "Caution! Toxic Gas," had been posted on a window of the car, and detergent containers were found in the vehicle, leading investigators to suspect that the two had made a pact to kill themselves by producing deadly hydrogen sulfide gas inside the car. Their names were not immediately disclosed. A note hinting that the woman would commit suicide was found in her home. The deaths follow a recent spate of incidents in which people have mixed detergents to generate the deadly gas to kill themselves. In some cases, neighbors and family members have also been sickened.

Mainichi: Residents evacuated as Osaka schoolboy fatally gasses self with hydrogen sulfide in plastic bag

A 17-year-old schoolboy fatally gassed himself here Tuesday by sticking his head in a plastic bag filled with lethal hydrogen sulfide, police said. The boy's father found the third-year high school student in a room of the family home with the plastic bag over his head. The boy was confirmed dead shortly after he was discovered collapsed at about 9:20 a.m. Police temporarily evacuated 14 people living in the area as a precautionary step, but nobody else was injured when the boy took his life. Police said the plastic bag found over the boy's head showed traces of hydrogen sulfide that had been produced by blending various types of detergents. The boy left a suicide note, but the details have not been disclosed. The boy's death is the latest in a spate of hydrogen sulfide deaths across the nation.

[Midwinter]

I know Japan loves a good fad but DAMN, this is getting silly.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'm sure some people want to take a few others with them. They can't buy assault rifles here like back home in the good ol' US of A, so they have to gas the whole building instead.

Selfish pricks.

[Mulboyne]

[sublight]

And one more for the road:

Man performs final public service before gassing self to death in car

NAGANO -- An unemployed man has gassed himself to death by producing deadly hydrogen sulfide in a car parked here, but not before leaving a sign to warn passersby of the poisonous gas inside the vehicle, police said Tuesday.

At around 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a newspaper sales agent noticed that a piece of paper saying, "Filled with Hydrogen Sulfide," had been posted on a window of a car parked in a vacant lot in Nagano, and alerted police.

[Captain Japan]

Another man gasses himself to death with hydrogen sulfide, 80 neighbors forced to flee
Mainichi

YOKOHAMA -- A 22-year-old man has gassed himself to death by generating deadly hydrogen sulfide at his home here, forcing about 80 neighbors to flee their homes, police said.

At around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, a resident of an apartment complex in Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, notified a gas supplier that he smelled a strong gas odor in the structure. The gas supplier in turn alerted rescue workers.

Paramedics found a 22-year-old company employee dead in the bathroom of his apartment. Traces of toxic hydrogen sulfide were detected in the bathroom, leading investigators to suspect that he committed suicide.

About 80 neighbors including residents of the same apartment complex temporarily took shelter at a nearby restaurant, according to local police.

[Taro Toporific]

Hydrogen sulfide suicides hit 517 in 5 months
Mainichi - June 19, 2008
As many as 517 people committed suicide by generating deadly hydrogen sulfide gas between January and May this year, the National Police Agency (NPA) said on Thursday....

[Taro Toporific]

[American Oyaji]

[IkemenTommy]

dangerous suicide method? Hmmmm.

Yeah no kidding. Was there ever a safe suicide method?

[Mike Oxlong]

ROR! I think the Texas doc was referring to the danger to those nearby, or those cleaning up after, the ones who off themselves...you know, like jumping off a tall building onto a pedestrian.

[Taro Toporific]

[INDENT]Angry boy, 13, a chemistry buff, gasses his class
Japan Times (Kyodo) Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011
KOCHI --A 13-year-old boy gassed his junior high school classroom with potentially fatal hydrogen sulfide in Kami, Kochi Prefecture, because of a grudge with a classmate, police and teachers said.
The boy, whose name has been withheld, generated the toxic gas -- which is often used in suicide attempts -- by mixing chemicals and liquids in his classroom at Kagamino Junior High School around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday...
<snip>
...Hydrogen sulfide can easily be made by mixing certain types of home-use detergents.[/INDENT]

[Ganma]

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Angry boy, 13, a chemistry buff, gasses his class
Japan Times (Kyodo) Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011
KOCHI --A 13-year-old boy gassed his junior high school classroom with potentially fatal hydrogen sulfide in Kami, Kochi Prefecture, because of a grudge with a classmate, police and teachers said.
The boy, whose name has been withheld, generated the toxic gas -- which is often used in suicide attempts -- by mixing chemicals and liquids in his classroom at Kagamino Junior High School around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday...
<snip>
...Hydrogen sulfide can easily be made by mixing certain types of home-use detergents.

He could go to work for the Nazis...all he needs is a time machine.

[2triky]

He could go to work for the Nazis...all he needs is a time machine.

He can stay closer to home and join Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army.

[Ganma]

He can stay closer to home and join Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army.

Maybe it was his great granddaddy who gave him the idea.

[2triky]

Maybe it was his great granddaddy who gave him the idea.

A cheerful ancestor to be sure, friend to all those part of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.