Nine to go! (suicide party cars)

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Suicide leaps also fatal for passersby

Osamu Ikeda was walking along a street in the busy Ikebukuro district in Tokyo on a day off last month when a woman who was jumping to her death landed on him. Ikeda, a 38-year-old father of two, never regained consciousness and died in hospital several days later..."She should've known she might hit somebody if she jumped when so many people were walking below," said Ikeda's eldest son, a 17-year-old high school student living in western Saitama Prefecture...The police plan to refer her to prosecutors as a dead suspect in a case of gross negligence resulting in death, saying she failed to avert serious consequences she could have predicted might arise from her actions...Police nationwide have, whenever possible, attempted to file criminal charges against people who killed or injured others when taking their own lives...

...However, Tokai Gakuin University Prof. Hirokazu Hasegawa, a researcher of clinical psychology with expertise in the psychological states of people who commit suicide, said police action alone will not prevent similar cases. "Leaping to one's death tends to be done more impulsively than other forms of suicide. Psychologically, people who decide to take their lives this way are beyond considering the possibility of involving and hurting others," Hasegawa said. Owners of buildings from which people jumped to their deaths are trying to prevent a recurrence. Keio department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where a suicide leap in 2000 struck a pedestrian walking below, built fences on the roof that bent inward near the top to make them harder to climb over. The University of Electro-Communications installed gates at entrances to emergency staircases that snake up the sides of its buildings, in a bid to prevent people contemplating suicide from climbing to the roofs there...more...

[Mulboyne]

[Captain Japan]

No mention of how they did it...
Trio of strangers commit group suicide in Saitama hotel
Mainichi

KAWAGOE, Saitama -- A group of two men and a woman appear to have committed a group suicide in a hotel here over the weekend, police said.

Three bodies were found in the hotel together with a suicide note.

The dead included a 35-year-old unemployed man from Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, a 19-year-old male university student from Chita, Aichi Prefecture, and a 23-year-old female university student from Tokyo's Meguro-ku.

None of the three knew each other and police believe they met up through an online site and agreed to die together.

[succubusqueen]

No mention of how they did it...
Trio of strangers commit group suicide in Saitama hotel
Mainichi

You're right....I can't say it could be fumes/smoke....because of alarms...if they have decent alarms at the hotels...weird. Maybe poisoning...

[Greji]

You're right....I can't say it could be fumes/smoke....because of alarms...if they have decent alarms at the hotels...weird. Maybe poisoning...

If it were a love hotel, I got some great ideas, but that might be degressing from the seriousness of the report!

[Captain Japan]

Nothing really special here except for it having took one month for them to be found...
Five found dead in car in Aomori in suspected suicide pact
Japan Today

AOMORI ― Five people were found dead in a car with a charcoal burner inside in what is suspected to be yet another group suicide in Japan, police said Sunday. The bodies were found by a man walking in a forest in northern Japan's Aomori Prefecture on Saturday, a local police official said.

"Burned charcoal was inside and there was no trace that they had been attacked by someone outside," he said, adding the car was sealed with tape from inside, leading to suspicions it was a group suicide.

Four of the five dead were from different parts of Japan, suggesting they met on the Internet, the official said.

Three were men aged 21-37 and the fourth a 19-year-old woman, he said.

One body has yet to be identified and it is believed that more than one month has passed since they died, he added.

Japan has witnessed a growing number of suicide pacts among strangers who meet on the Internet and then go to scenic areas where they kill themselves through carbon monoxide poisoning.

The country has one of the developed world's highest suicide rates, with more than 30,000 people killing themselves every year.

[Captain Japan]

Illegal overstayer jumps to death rather than be arrested
Mainichi
NAGOYA -- A Filipino man plunged five stories from his friend's apartment here to his death Monday rather than be arrested for not having a valid visa, police said.

Franco Juan Paul, a 39-year-old Filipino national, jumped from the fifth floor balcony of his friend's Higashi-ku apartment as police officers waited outside in the belief he was picking up his passport.

Officers said they let Paul go into the apartment alone because they did not have a warrant to enter and he was cooperating with them voluntarily.

Hidenori Sekiya, deputy chief of the Naka Police Station, defended police actions.

"They acted appropriately considering that he was being interviewed on a voluntary basis. It's regrettable that things had to come to an end like this," Sekiya said....more...

[Taro Toporific]

2-ch says:「練炭自殺に代わる、新しい自殺方法が開発された。火をおこす必要はない。練炭よりも簡単」 “A new suicide method has been developed to replace Briquettes! Do not need to kindle a fire-- Easier [and cleaner] than charcoal.”
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Couple suspected of gassing themselves to death with hydrogen sulfide
Mainichi Daily News,　April 17, 2008　KITAKYUSHU –A couple is suspected of fatally gassing themselves in a suicide pact by mixing detergents in their car and generating toxic hydrogen sulfide, police said Thursday. The case follows a spate of 26 incidents in which 27 people have allegedly killed themselves by mixing detergents and generating hydrogen sulfide since the beginning of this year, police said. In some cases, family members or neighbors also suffered poisoning…more…

[Mulboyne]

Here's a sympathetic report from Peter Alford in The Australian:

[SIZE="6"]Japan's latest fad: rotten egg gas[/SIZE]

DEATH by rotten-egg gas, Japan's latest suicide fad, appears to have claimed 10 lives this week including a 14-year-old girl. The schoolgirl's mother and two other people were treated in hospital on Wednesday after their apartment filled with noxious hydrogen sulphide fumes produced by combining two common chemical products, a toilet cleaner and a brand of bath salts. About 60 other people in the apartment building, in Konan City on Shikoku island, reported milder illness from inhaling the fumes, called rotten-egg gas for its pungent odour. Early yesterday, the mother of a 31-year-old Utsunomiya man who did not come home on Wednesday found his body in a parked car nearby. A note taped inside the windscreen read: "Don't come near - poisonous gas". The Konan girl might be the youngest victim so far of a suicide method publicised on the internet that has been attributed with more than 50 deaths this year. Hydrogen sulphide seems to have displaced carbon monoxide, generated by small charcoal burners, as the preferred method of self-disposal for Japan's young and hopeless...more...

[succubusqueen]

I have to give them credit when it comes to suicide methods....

[IkemenTommy]

Dozens sickened in Japan after suicide

TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese farmer who committed suicide by drinking pesticide vomited the poison at a hospital before he died, releasing toxic fumes that sickened more than 50 people, the hospital said Thursday.

Doctors were trying to pump the 34-year-old man's stomach when he threw up, spraying his rescuers with chloropicrin, causing 54 doctors, nurses and patients to develop breathing problems and eye sores.

Ten of them were hospitalized themselves, and 90 hospital personnel had to be called in to help with the emergency Wednesday night, said Tomoko Nagao, spokeswoman for the Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital in southern Japan.

The most severely injured was a 72-year-old pneumonia patient, whose condition worsened after exposure to the fumes, Nagao said. The hospital's emergency ward was closed and firefighters called in to decontaminate it.

The doctors were not wearing protective gear and were unprepared because the paramedics who brought the farmer to the hospital had not identified the pesticide, said a local police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of protocol.

The incident came amid a string of suicides in Japan by people mixing household chemicals to create lethal fumes. Many bystanders in recent months have been sickened by fumes that escaped into adjoining rooms, apartments or homes.

Seishi Takamura, a doctor who treated the farmer, said he could not stop coughing after inhaling the fumes, which smelled like chlorine, Kyodo News agency reported.

Chloropicrin is a highly volatile pesticide with a pungent odor that can cause breathing difficulties and sometimes death when inhaled in large amounts.

[Captain Japan]

[Captain Japan]

[Greji]

TV announcer Ako Kawada found dead in car in apparent suicide
Kyodo/Japan Today

That's a shame. Motainai. A verybecoming morsel leaves us.....

I guess it was the loss of her full-time position that finally weighed in...
RIP

[halfnip]

This is right down the street from my office. What a shame...

[Greji]

Man leaps to death from Tokyo's Rainbow Bridge
Kyodo/Japan Today

".....Police found his car on the bridge, and are now trying to identify him.....".

Does it strike anyone strange that a car with license plates registration numbers, and assumedly registration documents present (i.e. "his car") and they haven't identified him yet?

I suppose there are all kinds of reasons, but....

[halfnip]

".....Police found his car on the bridge, and are now trying to identify him.....".

Does it strike anyone strange that a car with license plates registration numbers, and assumedly registration documents present (i.e. "his car") and they haven't identified him yet?

I suppose there are all kinds of reasons, but....

Maybe they're trying to spin it so that it ends up being an FG after all...

[IkemenTommy]

[Mulboyne]

[IkemenTommy]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Japanese woman found hanged aboard KAL plane

Jesus, was their service that bad to kill yourself onboard?

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Primary school teacher taught suicide methods

FUKUOKA--A teacher told fifth-graders how to commit suicide at a primary school in Sasagurimachi, Fukuoka Prefecture, according to the school and local education board. The Sasagurimachi Municipal Board of Education and Kitaseto Municipal Primary School said a parent of one of the students had told the prefectural education board Wednesday, "My child was shocked because a teacher talked about ways to commit suicide during a class." Following an inquiry by the town's education board into the case, the school's principal, Yoichi Iwasaki, asked the teacher to explain what happened. The teacher, 37, admitted he had told his students, "There are many ways to commit suicide, such as jumping to your death, overdosing on sleeping pills or [poisoning oneself by burning] a coal briquette [in a closed space]" during a Japanese class.

[dimwit]

The teacher, 37, admitted he had told his students, "There are many ways to commit suicide, such as jumping to your death, overdosing on sleeping pills or [poisoning oneself by burning] a coal briquette [in a closed space]" during a Japanese class.

I think he was just being responsible. When they fail their junior high school entrance exams they will be prepared to last step in their lives.

[Mulboyne]

The Nation: Japanese woman killed

A 36-year-old Japanese woman reportedly committed suicide by jumping off a nine-storey apartment in Bangkok's Din Daeng district, police said. Alerted of the incident at 6.30am Tuesday, police found the body of Yuki Yuwayama, who had lived there since December last year, at the fire exist on the second floor. Police found no trace of struggle but a letter in Japanese, which was suspected to be a suicide note in her ninth-floor room. Police suspected that Yuwayama, who stayed alone there, might be under stress because prior to the incident, Yuwayama was seen drinking alcohol, crying and knocking on neighbours' doors.

[IkemenTommy]

Suspected robber kills self in standoff with police

KAWAGOE, Saitama Prefecture--A suspected robber in a pachinko parlor heist shot himself in the head in a car and died after a 10-hour standoff with police in a residential district here Tuesday.

How perfectly appropriate for this thread.

[AssKissinger]

http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080720/NEWS01/80720008

TOKYO — A deadly suicide fad is sweeping Japan: Hundreds of Japanese have killed themselves this year by mixing ordinary household chemicals into a lethal cloud of poison gas that often injures others and forces the evacuation of entire apartment blocks.

The 517 self-inflicted deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning this year are part of a bigger, grimmer story: Nearly 34,000 Japanese killed themselves last year, according to the Japanese national police. That's the second-highest toll ever in a country where the suicide rate is ninth highest in the world and more than double that of the United States, the World Health Organization says...

Police have asked Internet service providers to ban Web sites that promote suicide — but with only mixed success.

Fuck the police. Mixed results? How many websites are being banned in Japan these days? That's fucked!

[Mock Cockpit]

I always wondered about those suicide sites. Can't imagine a site where everyone is a noob and the introductions thread is all the same "Hi, I'm Harrycarrey17 and I hate myself and want to die".

[Mike Oxlong]

Apologies if this is the wrong topic for it, but this seemed oddly relevant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/19/healthandwellbeing6

At 9.45am on Saturday, June 23 2007, I killed a man. A perfectly ordinary man, on a perfectly ordinary summer's day. CCTV pictures show him entering the station, unremarkable among all the passengers going to the West End. He waited at the front of the platform until he could hear my train approaching, then he calmly stepped down on to the tracks and looked directly at me as he waited for the impact.
The impact was only a matter of seconds in coming, but those seconds felt like minutes. This wasn't how it was meant to be. It wasn't how I had imagined it during my years as a Central line train driver. We talk of "jumpers"; workmates tell of blurry images flashing in front of them, of the shock of the impact. I wasn't expecting to see a young man in jeans and a summer shirt waiting for death, looking me in the eye.

As I hit the emergency brake, I was thinking, "Please, get out of the way. Now. Please let it be a prank." Youngsters on the track are a regular event, though no less frightening for that, and for train drivers it's something we learn to live with.

But this wasn't a typical game of "chicken": he wasn't laughing and he wasn't with friends. When it became clear he wasn't going to move out of the way, I closed my eyes, covered my face and held my breath.

By the time we were stationary, four of my eight cars were in the platform and I was on autopilot. I told the passengers there would be a delay in opening the doors due to an "incident", and was calling the line controller for assistance when I heard a tap on my cab door. A smart man inquired, "Do you know there's a person under your train?" I looked at the blood on the windscreen momentarily before assuring him that, yes, I was aware.

He paused for a heartbeat, looked at his watch and said, "So, how long before we get on the move again?"

The rest of the sad story.

[kurohinge1]

Apologies if this is the wrong topic for it, but this seemed oddly relevant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/19/healthandwellbeing6

. . . The rest of the sad story.

I think most train commuters, world-wide, are unaware how common these incidents are, in large cities in particular, and how badly it can affect the train drivers, etc. It is a sad and selfish act.

Here's another article from 2003: Suicide on the tracks

Jumping in front of trains is a desperate and violent means of suicide. It creates enormous trauma for the drivers involved - and it is happening all over the world on an alarming scale

Seconds before a potential collision with a person who appears, suddenly and inexplicably, on the track, a train driver has to make a decision. Should he or she risk derailment by applying the emergency brake, which, in any event, will not bring the train to an immediate halt? . . .

The momentary dilemma must be awful and so, say drivers who have seen it, is the look of terror on a victim's face just before impact occurs. Whether suicide or simple trespass, it is often impossible to know. Either way, that look is frozen on the memory of the driver and may be among a cocktail of torments to keep him or her off work for weeks or months to come. Panic attacks, unreliability, alcoholism, and feelings of fear and anxiety are cited by psychologists as typical long term reactions.

These experiences are extreme but, sadly, not rare. German union Transnet reports 1000 rail suicides nationwide per year, as well as over 1300 incidents involving trespassers on the track. In the US in 2000, 463 people were killed trespassing on the track while 414 were injured. Suicides have peaked at 30,000 per year for the last four years in Japan, most commonly among middle-aged men &#8211]more[/URL]

[Greji]

".....I heard a tap on my cab door. A smart man inquired, "Do you know there's a person under your train?" I looked at the blood on the windscreen momentarily before assuring him that, yes, I was aware.

He paused for a heartbeat, looked at his watch and said, "So, how long before we get on the move again?"....."

My man has his priorities in order! Get that trash out from under the train and let's get rolling.....

[IkemenTommy]

My man has his priorities in order! Get that trash out from under the train and let's get rolling.....

Nah, just get a hose and a bucket and start spraying.