Suicide Forest in Japan

The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.

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[david sharma]

"You think you die alone but it's not true" this line really touched me!!

[LadyEvelynL]

It's sad how people are so unhappy with life and their troubles, that they feel that the only to fix it, is to commit suicide. After having suicidal thoughts, I was able to rise above that, but I really feel for some of these people

[sgr7th]

I dont think they would remember the earth as beautiful because it caused so much pain. They probably just wanted to die alone in a beautiful setting....

[PirateKing1256]

If you realised it. Life is one pointless shit.

[Hamisht12]

Because it's the internet. Everyone is an expert on everything. Also your opinion is always wrong.

[Alexis Rory]

be happy is simple. think about it....

[sparkygirl266]

I want to get to know that old man. He seems so thoughtful and kind.

[Pokegalkk]

18:45-18:54

My first thought on why they killed themselves in such a beautiful place is because they probably wanted to remember this earth as beautiful. To remember it.

[MrNikoslia]

Why not worship the butcher of jesus- without him nobody would talk about ur "legend"

[cheeze5882]

Because some people need the promise of an afterlife to make this life worth living, which is sad in its own way.

[gannonmoffitt]

Explain why there are conversion comments in a suicide video