Infamous Suicide Spot

WOW this is the first time I heard of this...Was talking to a friend's GF and found out that the Japan beautiful Mount Fuji is actually a very famous spot for suicide case as well....

"You know they will just go there and build a tent and die there and the cleaners will just remove the tent from the spot the next morning" she said as she showed a fork lift sign...."The Japanese are very considerate people, they don't want to cause people trouble and be messy", she said and was nodding her head vigorously just to show that she is very serious....

I agree with the fact that Japanese are very considerate people but dying in a tent at mount Fuji...OMG...The cleaner had to just clean up by picking the tents up with the body??!!!???!!! What kind of life are they having? What is the world becoming?

Read an interesting article regarding the suicides at mount fuji, The Suicide Woods of Mt. Fuji, Aokigahara

Signs emblazoned with messages such as "Please reconsider" and "Please consult the police before you decide to die!" are nailed to trees throughout the forest. However, the woods have such a reputation that these minor deterrents do little to stop the determined. Local residents say they can always tell who is going into the forest for its stunning natural beauty, who is hunting after the macabre and who is planning never to return. "We've got everything here that points to us being a death spot. Perhaps we should just promote ourselves as 'Suicide City' and encourage people to come here," the exasperated mayor of Aokigahara has been quoted as saying.

However, even in these haunted woods, regular humans still have a job to do. Forestry workers rotate in and out of shifts at a station building in Aokigahara, and occasionally they will come upon unfortunate bodies in various states of decomposition, usually hanging from trees or partially eaten by animals. The bodies are brought down to the station, where a spare room is kept especially for such occasions. In this room are two beds: one for the corpse and one for someone to sleep next to it. Yup, you read that correctly. It is thought that if the corpse is left alone, the lonely and unsettled yurei will scream the whole night through, and the body will move itself into the regular sleeping quarters. In inimitable style, the workers jan-ken to see who gets to sleep with the body. And you thought your job was rough.

So don't complain when your jobs are tough...count yourself lucky you don't have to sleep with dead people in the same room... >.< forums that set up collection threads to help these families...

Could this be the reasons why some people are choosing the MRT tracks as one of the way to end their life?

I went to AsiaOne.com to search for key word MRT suicide and there are so many news on cases of people killing themselves on the MRT racks....So many cases....No wonder SMRT had to spend so much money just to build doors at the "above" ground stations...I wonder if fines were implemented, will these people still use our MRT track as their "vehicle" for the last journey of their life...