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Last night in Japan, a 27-year-old motorist drove into the territory of Fukushima-2 NPP and crashed into the station building. Initially, his goal was the emergency “Fukushima-1”, but they didn’t let the car to it-then the unknown hero went to the first block located nearby (that is, in the radioactive zone). The young man survived - he was arrested by the police, who are now trying to get to the bottom of the causes of the incident. It is possible that it was an attempt to typically Japanese suicide.

For the most part, Japanese suicides are no different from colleagues from other countries. But there are features.

In Japan, suicide is almost a common place. The country occupies a leading position on the number of voluntary departures among industrialized states: on average, more than 30 thousand Japanese deprive themselves of their lives in a year. Since 2008-from the beginning of the global crisis-they have been doing this especially actively than the state has been tangible to the state: in 2009, for example, due to suicids, the Japanese economy lost $ 31.8 billion.

The reasons why the Japanese suck are well -known. It is not easy to live in Japanese society: you should receive the best grades on the exam, and then be an ideal employee and keep your perfect wife. And if something with the Japanese stops turning out: he fails in exams or loses his job-he may come to the conclusion that life is over. And many, in fact, decide to finish it - literally.

There are many ways for this. Harakiri in Japan is now rare (although some are also resolved on them, mainly for nationalist considerations, in the framework of political protest). For the most part, Japanese suicides, like their colleagues from other countries, hung, poison, cut the veins, jump under the trains in the subway, strangle themselves with gas, electric shock, freeze to death, cigarettes from roofs and so on. But there are exclusively local features.

Find a partner for suicide on the Internet

At the beginning of the zero, there were a lot of suicide sites on the Japanese Internet.

These were typical interest communities: those who wanted to commit suicide there met and discussed the effectiveness of a particular way of leaving life. But the most important thing - those who were alone to perform suicide were scary, were looking for suicide partners. Finding the mutual understanding online, future suicides stipulated all the details, met in the applied place, after which they finally put their hands on themselves. Sometimes, even six to nine people died with an “ensemble” method.

A few years ago, the government staged an Internet region on the resources cultivating suicide and interrupted them. Then the suicides migrated to universal, not attracting the attention of the authorities of theit matter. In addition, some owners of suicide sites rested on the servers of foreign providers.

By the way, in addition to suicide sites in Japan, special “memorial” sites are popular in Japan, which describes how this or that person killed himself.

Go out of carbon monoxide

One of the most popular types of suicide in Japan is the death of carbon monoxide. There is a clearly developed technique. Usually, the Japanese go to a quiet place, carefully seal their car (for example, the windows are sealed from the inside with an opaque film with tape), after which briquettes with coal are set on fire in several portable burners and wait.

Poison with household chemicals

From household cleaners, the Japanese make a hydrogen sulfide. With certain combinations of mixtures, a chemical reaction begins, during which toxic gas is released abundantly. As reagents, detergents, mineral fertilizers, and washing powder, and even bath salt are used. On the Internet (again on thematic sites), accurate instructions are given: what products and what brands need to be mixed in order to achieve the desired result. The Japanese consider this way of leaving their life “simple and elegant”. True, the chemical reaction sometimes turns out to be so intense that suicides poison with hydrogen sulfide not only themselves, but also all those around them (in some cases, dozens of people became - all of them, fortunately, survived).

With other hands

Wealthy Japanese suicides hire themselves killers. So, in 2007, a 21-year-old girl turned to the administrator of one of the suicide sites for help. At her request, he pumped up a voluntary sacrifice with drugs, put on a plastic bag on her head, and then strangled her (the girl chose the method of murder herself). The responsive admin earned a little more than one and a half thousand dollars at this euthanasia. True, he was quickly found, condemned for the murder and sent to prison.

Go to the forest of Aokihagar

Romanes write about this forest at the foot of Mount Fuji. When exactly the Japanese began to come there to die, it was unknown: the police began to systematically look for the bodies of suicide there only in 1970. Since then, statistics are underway: annually in the forest they kill themselves from 70 to 100 people. As a rule, the Japanese under the canopy of the trees in Fuji are hanged or poisoned by large doses of drugs. It is said that if you move away from the main path at least ten meters to the side, you will certainly find scattered pills, bags, plastic bottles, or even a “finished” body. However, the fame about this forest is still from the Middle Ages: the starving families left there at the faithful death of those whom they could not feed: children and the elderly.