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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pact
A suicide pact describes the suicides of two or more individuals in an agreed-upon plan. The plan may be to die together, or separately and closely timed. Suicide pacts are important concepts in the study of suicide, and have occurred throughout history, as well as in fiction. After any suicide attempt or death it is important to establish whether anyone else knew about the suicide plan in advance, in order to determine whether a suicide pact may be involved.
Suicide pacts are distinct from mass suicide. The latter involves incidents in which a (usually) large number of people kill themselves together for the same ideological reason, often within a religious, political, military, and/or paramilitary context (see Mass Suicide). Suicide pacts, on the other hand, usually involve small groups of people (such as married or romantic partners, family members, or friends) whose motivations are intensely personal and individual. To date, the largest known number of people to die in a single group suicide pact is seven. [1]
A suicide pact negotiated over the internet, often between complete strangers, is an Internet suicide.
Another focus of the media reports on group suicide pacts is a new and unique method of suicide that is being utilized in Japan (and gradually spreading elsewhere), one that is particularly popular among those committing group suicide -- carbon monoxide poisoning achieved by burning charcoal briquettes (or other fossil fuels) in BBQ grills or stoves within an enclosed area, such as a small sealed room, tent, or car. The Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reports that “group suicide through gas inhalation increased in 2003, with 3,538 people involved, up by 2,024 from 2002." [2] Many Japanese media outlets report on suicides by charcoal-produced carbon-monoxide poisoning, referring to it as a “new method of suicide." A 2001 psychiatric article [3] reports that suicides via charcoal-produced carbon-monoxide poisoning were “unheard of in Hong Kong” before the first case in that country was sensationalized by the media in 1998. The victim in that case “reportedly learned of the method from a Chinese film.” The article reports that suicide-by-charcoal cases in Hong Kong have risen dramatically and steadily since 1998, and concludes that, due to intense media coverage of such cases, a “copycat effect” is a contributing factor.
There is little doubt that recent cases of internet-related suicide-by-charcoal pacts that have occurred outside of Japan -- such as the February 2005 suicide of two young people in the UK, reported by the media as the UK’s “first online suicide pact” [4] -- have been directly influenced by media reports of similar incidents occurring in Japan. It remains to be seen whether such suicide pacts are just a “passing trend” or will increase and/or spread over time
Where can I find more information on using this charcoal method?
If anyone knows, please feel to post the information in making it.
Which internet service is the best to contact or organise such the suicide pact. I've heard the Japanese uses 2chan, suicide internet BBS to organise the pact.
Does anyone know the Japanese bbs, sites on where it organises the suicide pact?
If you are Japanese, can you please tell me the address to them?
Thanks.
Here's a suicide-board on 2ch2 : http://bbs.2ch2.net/suicide/
Please don't kill yourself :(
Here's a link to the usenet group alt.suicide.methods :
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.suicide.methods
Search the group for information on various methods, including the charcoal method you mentioned.
Oh, and if you are considering suicide please tell us why, if you don't mind.
i jumped in the river and what did i see?
black-eyed angels swam with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
and all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
i jumped into the river and what did i see?
black-eyed angels swam with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
and all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat
there was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt
I entered a suicide pact with a friend but she jumped the gun and tried going without me. For a long time I felt worse that I had been betrayed then I did that my best friend had tried to die. I think I'm better off now after a year then I've been in so many years before. So I guess I'm over the whole wanting to die crap. Some people just gotta go through this I guess.
I hope that whatever happens you do better for yourself and others.
I'm sure that out of all the people who have committed suicide, the amount whose lives would not have gotten better eventually is very small. As far as people who have the luxury of complaining about it on the internet goes, at least. Of course there's exceptions, but please don't kill yourself because you lose your ipod and your girlfriend broke up with you.
Does this method work?
Have anyone tried this?
If anyone is going to suicide with this method, submit a post on this thread saying you will do so and if we don't see you post for over a week, that means this method works.
Burning charcoal while you are trapped in an enclosed space.
has anyone seen the japanese movie 'suicide club' or read the manga it's based on 'jisatsu circle'? given a choice, would you die alone or with others?
>>12
The movie sucked, the manga was okay.
I would die alone, I don't want to drag people with me just because of my own reasons. It's like I'm olddd- oh lawd, come with me doggu, come die with me!
Although this may see irrelevant, I have heard of similiar poisonings in novels, one where a woman claims to be making a roast and seals herself into the kitchen with the oven turned on and in the movie Office Space, where some guy tries to kill himself by locking himself into a car, so it isn't as uncommon in the "West"
Here's a link to a paper on Hong Kong carbon monoxide suicides, but I don't know if the full one is accessable-http://www.psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/52/6/836
alt.suicide.holiday is something similiar to the 2chan suicide pacts, but it focuses more on the individual methods of suicide, rather then a pact, though it probably does happen
I hope that helps ^^
Google search next time, dammit >.<
>>12
I saw the movie and suggested it to a friend.
As it turns out, suicide is a very sensitive subject. ;_;
Alone. I've never been terribly fond of doing things with others.
This thread is funny because OP troll failed so much.
4-ch is so full of helpful people :)
BAM BAM BAM Internet cool lskadhfhd
Life is not worth living. I envy those, who genuinely argue with this.
>Emil Cioran, author of On the Heights of Despair, was a Romanian philosopher ... He propounded a nihilist anti-philosophy in which he argued that the only valid thing to do with one's life is to end it. He failed to live up to his own principles and died at the ripe old age of eighty-four.
>>25
was he only a philosopher? he would make a great politician
Politics doesn't need to recruit hypocrites, the job turns people into them.
Anyone want to talk