p2pnet - rss feed: Wave of ‘detergent’ suicides in Japan
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Japanese police are asking ISPs to take down information on how to generate a colourless, toxic gas used by victims in a new wave of suicides
“A farmer was arrested Thursday for attempting to generate deadly hydrogen sulfide at his home” an unsuccessful bid to gas his 82-year-old mother to death following a family dispute, says the Mainichi Daily News.
Japan has seen dozens of recent suicide attempts by hydrogen sulphide gas, produced by combining common detergent and bath salts through instructions found easily on the Net, says the story.
At least 48 cases of suicides using the gas were reported throughout the nation from March 27 to April 29, according to disaster services, it says.
Many victims left notes outside to warn neighbours or rescuers about the deadly gas, apparently in keeping with recommendations found online, the Mainichi Daily News states, adding:
“Police said they received a call Tuesday from a pharmacist in a Tokyo suburb to warn them about a woman who had bought bath salts and was acting suspiciously.
“They later found the 31-year-old dead in the bathroom of her house, where a note on the bathroom door carried the word ‘Danger’ written in red.”
Says Reuters, “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.
“Japan has the second-highest suicide rate in the Group of Eight nations after Russia, according to the World Health Organisation.”
The National Police Agency, “this week urged Internet service providers to delete information from websites about how to make hydrogen sulphide, which is touted as “an easy way to die,” it says.
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Mainichi Daily News - Farmer busted for trying to generate deadly hydrogen sulfide to kill mom, May 1, 2008
Reuters - Japan evacuates hundreds after latest gas suicide, May 1, 2008
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May 1st, 2008 at 6:06 am
This sounds like a good way to get rid of these bloody p2p freeloaders. Fuck the lawsuits, just gas them!
May 1st, 2008 at 7:49 am
How nice, people who laugh about people dieing. What’s next, a joke about funny it is for someone’s mother being killed by a stun gun?
This is a real problem, here in Japan, with fatal results.
Suicide has been a problem within the Japanese society for many years. In the past, major train lines would be stopped during the morning or evening rush, because someone decide to jump in front of the train. Just last year, a woman in her twenties was killed by a “jumper”, on her way home from work.
I won’t get into the mindset of why many Japanese people submit to suicide, but there is basically 2 major reasons behind the suicides-
1 is a concept that by their death, they will stop existing, and thus stop being a burden on others.
2 is the opposite extreme, where the person feels that this is the only way for people to notice them and the troubles that they are facing (this often is related to bullying).
Recently (within the last 10 years), there has been a growing trend of internet related suicides, where people are looking for other people to commit suicide with, people in a chat room who talk people into committing suicide, and then bulking out in the last minute, only to enter a different chat room and talk others in doing the same thing.
This, coupled with an interest in dieing with the least amount of pain, and as beautiful (this is especially true with girls and women), and most important- a way to die where you can’t be saved and revived in a maimed state, has spawned many internet sites, who offer a “Clean way to die”.
The trend that has been fueled through the net has been “pills”->”Carbon Monoxide” and now by mixing various detergents”.
The flip side to this new wave of detergent suicides, is that people who have gone in to save the person who has committed suicide, often ends up dieing too. There was a case where a suicide in an apartment complex killed 3(one of which was the mother of the child), and over 12 people were hospitalized from the gas.
These sites often can be found through searching the net with terms like “Quick way to die” “Easy way to die”. The Japanese police are stuck with the task of shutting down illegal sites like this (this is considered “helping” suicide in Japan) , and at the same time not infringe of the right of free speech.
Coupled with this, is the difficulty of finding the true owner of a blog or web site, brings about the central theme of this story.
Just my two cents
May 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
The Japanese culture sees honour in suicide; it is much preferred to being captured, tortured, and killed… maybe that’s how a lot of these people see their lives. It’s supposed to be done in a short ceremony using a samurai sword… but I supposed it’s hard and expensive to get your hands on a samurai sword these days.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
“but I supposed it’s hard and expensive to get your hands on a samurai sword these days.”
plus it hurts
Death by sword isn’t as popular as the Euro/American/Canadian press would lead you to believe. This was an honorable way to give penance or prove one’s remorse, but was ONLY allowed by the samurai class, which was only a small portion of the entire population.
Just my two cents
May 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Maybe… they all think they’re samurais? haha I don’t know… but good call, I forgot about that
May 4th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Give them means to kill themselves as they see fit without endangering or bothering others, then.
It is every human’s inalienable (in theory, at least) right to do with his own life as he or her sees fit. This includes terminating it.
Pray tell whom is that a problem for? Society? The government? Bollocks. They’re concerned with loosing taxpayers, naught else. And the capitalists are concerned with the raising price of labour as offer dwindles. None of which concern deserves to be taken seriously.
Freedom in life, freedom in death! Merde to the gods!
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 am
Does any one know how I can make hydrogen sulphide gas. There is no point to life