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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Japan has one of the highest suicide rates of any industrialized nation and their citizens are not allowed to own firearms either.
In 2009, over 30,000 people killed themselves in japan. 12th straight year of that many at least
"Common methods of suicide are jumping in front of trains, leaping off high places, hanging, or overdosing on medication"
the correlation with guns is very tentative.
The WHO (world heath organization) has numbers on this stuff.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/pre...iciderates/en/
shit is real bad in Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Slovenia...
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i think that mainly has to do with cultural differences: failure is not at all accepted in japan, and this leads people to seeing suicide as their only way out a lot quicker...
when your business fails in europe or america, it is embarassing and humiliating at most, but it's not like the ultimate shame in your life, ith no solution.
oh and suicidal people really need help. they get in a condition where they seem to be stuck in a tunnel and all they see is the end of that tunnel (death) as the only solution to their problems. it is impossible for them to see any other way to fix things. my uncle had been going through a depressed phase, and one event (his partner going away after a fight) tipped him over the edge and left him unable to see the circle of family and friends around him, ready for him (they were there, and they were at his funeral too, all 800 of them). all he could think of was death as the solution so he got a shotgun and blew his brains out in the bathroom. no one had a chance to save him, and it left a huge group of people behind with an enormous feeling of sadness and guilt. another talented and nice guy lost:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0uGOvuVsU
(my uncle is singing on the right, on the left is his friend who posted this video. he killed himself earlier this year, not being able to cope with his best mate leaving like that, and left behind a wife and two young children)