Suicide Prevention T-Shirts

[Mulboyne]

The Jisatsu Zero Campaign organized a rally around Tokyo yesterday where supporters all wore white T-shirts with positive messages designed to discourage people from taking their own lives. The T-shirts are supposed to be available via the website but it seems to be under construction. Japanese report on the event here.

[dimwit]

The T-shirts are supposed to be available via the website but it seems to be under construction. Japanese report on the event

I'm so depressed about the site not being running that I think I'll just have to.....

[Greji]

The T-shirts are supposed to be available via the website but it seems to be under construction.

The Charcoal Producers' Association of Japan made them take the site down.

[emperor]

I'm so depressed about the site not being running that I think I'll just have to.....

just remember to be original

[GomiGirl]

OMG - so that was the group of wierdos walking through Yoyogi park yesterday. I thought they were a cult christian group "spreading the word". They were following the leader carrying a smiley face on a stick and breaking off to shake hands at park revellers and smiling like they were on MDMA. They were altogether too cheery!! Prozac-much?

I wondered what they were trying to sell.

[Kanchou]

I want the "It's still OK!" T-shirt.

[Socratesabroad]

The Jisatsu Zero Campaign organized a rally around Tokyo yesterday where supporters all wore white T-shirts with positive messages designed to discourage people from taking their own lives.

I'm curious as to who in Japan thought such a rally would make a difference. A nice gesture, I guess, but hollow nonetheless since college-aged kids aren't at particular risk for suicide.

Based on some papers I've translated over the last year or so, the fastest-growing suicide population is elderly women. The second largest suicide population, and previously the front runner, is middle-aged men. Worse, both groups are only projected to expand as the aging of Japanese society proceeds. So can someone explain how twentysomethings in T-shirts are related to either?

[emperor]

Based on some papers I've translated over the last year or so, the fastest-growing suicide population is elderly women. The second largest suicide population, and previously the front runner, is middle-aged men.

In Ireland (and UK) the highest suicide-rate are young men (late teens/early 20s).
I'm surprised to hear that elderly ladies are the highest in Japan now, I would've thought it would still be their husbands, as females are generally a lot less inclined to self-destruct than men

also, it's so weird how suicide-rates seem so homogenous in particular parts of the world:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Suicide_rates_map.svg
Incedentally, "Up to at least the 1950s, it was the Republic of Ireland which had the lowest suicide rate in the world" possibly because we used to 'have {catholic} religion' & why the Latin American countries still do. (its 2mb so take a few seconds) Suicide in the UK and Ireland ('96)

[Greji]

I'm curious as to who in Japan thought such a rally would make a difference. A nice gesture, I guess, but hollow nonetheless since college-aged kids aren't at particular risk for suicide.

They're not altogether correct on that Soc! Gogatsubyou still gets alot of college kids each year. Although it may not be a the levels of the past.

[kurohinge1]

. . . the fastest-growing suicide population is elderly women. The second largest suicide population . . . is middle-aged men.

. . . So can someone explain how twentysomethings in T-shirts are related to either?

Here's my guess: One group is their grandmothers & the other their fathers.

[GuyJean]

Japanese version..


And one for gaijin..


GJ

[gomichild]

I can certainly support this kind of movement, and it's important that the stigma of mental illness and depression be taken away - but why oh why do t-shirts for good causes always have to look so bad?

[baka tono]

Why dont they just stand in front of a train station like the school begging groups do, hold a banner and should dont kill yourself. Or they could hire one of those election trucks and drive through the streets blasting out anti suicide slogans.

[succubusqueen]

Those t-shirts are too die for!!.....

[DrP]

Maybe they should start by dealing with the repressed domestic violence, bullying and oh, of course, the real reason Japanese love suicide --- it's the final solution in conflict resolution. Besides, anyone knows, suicide is painless, honorable and that really isn't true about JR bill.