Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/28/12 4:30:15 PM

Interesting video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8&feature=player_embedded

More info..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127414/The-suicide-forest-Japan-Mystery-Mount-Fuji-beauty-spot-100-bodies-year.html


http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-19/world/suicide.forrest.japan_1_suicide-taro-aokigahara-forest?_s=PM:WORLD

from Wiki..

The forest is a popular place for suicides, reportedly the most popular in Japan and second in the world after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.[5][6] Statistics vary. In the period leading up to 1988, about 100 suicides occurred there every year.[7]
In 2002, 78 bodies were found within the forest, exceeding the previous record of 74 in 1998.[1][8] In 2003, the rate climbed to 100, and in recent years, the local government has stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to downplay Aokigahara's association with suicide.[9] In 2004, 108 people killed themselves in the forest. In 2010, 247 people attempted suicide in the forest, 54 of whom completed the act.[2] Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan.[10] As of 2011, the most popular means of suicide in the forest were hanging and drug overdoses.[11]
The high rate of suicide has led officials to place signs in the forest, in Japanese and English, urging those who have gone there to commit suicide to seek help and not kill themselves. The annual body search, consisting of a small army of police, volunteers, and attendant journalists, began in 1970.[12][13][14]
The site's popularity has been attributed to the 1960 novel Nami no To (????, lit., "Tower of Waves") by Seicho Matsumoto,[15] which ends with two lovers committing suicide in the forest. However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara predates the novel's publication, and the place has long been associated with death: ubasute may have been practiced there into the 19th century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the Yurei (angry spirits) of those left to die.[9]

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: inky
  • 8/28/12 4:57:33 PM

That's pretty dark. Did you post the video of the Japanese cannibal? That was f'd up as well.

I saw a guy jump from a bridge. I was on the freeway just under where he jumped so I saw him on the way down.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/28/12 5:06:35 PM

Wow, I guess I did. I forgot about that and had to do a search.

That's messed up, inky. Did the guy die?

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: inky
  • 8/28/12 5:11:57 PM

Oh yeah. I stopped at one of those call boxes on the freeway and reported what I thought was a body then found my way to where I thought he landed. By the time I got there a cop was already there and had covered his body. I still remember what he was wearing.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/28/12 5:15:43 PM

Oh my, that's awful

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: inky
  • 8/28/12 5:19:28 PM

Yeah, it was pretty weird. It was a long time ago so it's just surreal now. My husband saw a homeless guy leap off bridge we were driving on. I was looking the other way so I missed it. It's kind of our thing. The thing that binds us.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

hehe its a narley thing to see

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: KFC
  • 8/28/12 9:47:08 PM

I hope one day to take the family to that forest with hopes of witnessing a suicide, hopefully by hanging.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/28/12 10:24:16 PM

Will you bring me back a 'My Parents Visited the Suicide Forest and All I Got Was Some Guy's Lousy T-Shirt'?

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

I think someone posted this story before

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

I haven't seen this story on here before but I think I've seen something about this on the Discovery Channel or something. Weird stuff.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: Ankaa
  • 8/28/12 11:50:04 PM

I saw a show about a forest in Romania where suicides happen. There's a clearing in the forest where magnetic energy exists.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: KFC
  • 8/28/12 11:51:14 PM

I'm back, 2 hours later. This prompted me to google search cannibalism which led me to the haulocaust. My obsession has deepened as now I have saved many rare photos to my phone. To view later? Probably. Im officially a psycho.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/29/12 12:38:57 AM

'haulocaust?' Is that a U-Haul semiannual sale?

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: KFC
  • 8/29/12 12:46:03 AM

Holo! You asshole! Making fun of people's weaknesses is a sure way to keep your soul from crossing over when you die.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/29/12 1:20:43 AM

Yes, because correcting someone on their spelling is surefire one way ticket to hell.

Honestly, I think a semiannual U-Haul sale caulled the Haul-o-cost would be fucking awesome.

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: Ankaa
  • 8/29/12 1:29:04 AM

Oy

Re: Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Japan

  • Author: nick
  • 8/29/12 1:41:57 AM

Monkey asked me to go to Rape Woods once.

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