About 120 people were evacuated from their apartments in western Japan after a 14-year-old girl killed herself by producing and inhaling poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas, the local fire department said on Thursday.
The increasing use of such poisonous gas to commit suicide has received much media attention in Japan in recent months.
At least 40 such cases of suicides have taken place this year, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported last week, citing the Japan Suicide Prevention Association.
The annual number of suicides has been above 30,000 for nine years in a row, police figures showed last year.
The reason why I choose it to share with you is because:
1> Yong people commit suicide issue happened frequently these years. Japan has the second highest suicide rate in the Group of Eight nations after Russia, a World Health Organisation report showed.
2> The methods of suicide are always different. Japanese always do something bizarre. This time, the odd suicide way really upset my nerves. So I choose this.
April 25, 2008
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