Tech | November 11, 2010 | 17 comments

Japanese man streams suicide live on the internet after being egged on by users of online chatroom

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8124944/Japanese-man-streams-suicide-live-on-...

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The 24-year-old man, who has not been named, was found dead in his apartment in the city of Sendai early on Tuesday morning. Police had been alerted by viewers of the Ustream web page and were able to locate the man's apartment.

By the time they arrived at 8am, however, the man was already dead.

The man had announced his intention to kill himself in online chat rooms last week, according to the Yomiuri newspaper, after complaining for some weeks about problems he had been experiencing at work.

Employed by a bank, the man had been suspended from his duties since August.

The man, who lived alone, started a live stream on Sunday evening, repeating his plans to commit suicide.

While some people posted messages attempting to talk him out of going through with his plans, others encouraged him to kill himself. Apparently believing they were watching a hoax, some viewers even suggested that he hurry up and get it over with.

Police told local media that the man initially tried to hang himself on the balcony of his flat shortly before 4am on Tuesday. When that attempt failed, the footage showed the man repeating the attempt elsewhere at 5:30am.

People watching online debated whether the footage was genuine until Ustream halted the broadcast and the police were informed.

Some 32,845 Japanese people killed themselves in 2009 and the rate is likely to remain above the 30,000 threshold for the 13th straight year when the statistics for 2010 are released.
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17 comments // Japanese man streams suicide live on the internet after being egged on by users of online chatroom

  • marigosa
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      marigosa  

    • This is awful, another life taken due to a distorted perspective. At 24 life was just beginning, RIP. I hope you finally have whatever peace you sought.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  

    • Suicide is like an addiction. It's a craving. At first you are just crying for help, because you really do have real depression and real problems and maybe not enough love in your life & feel alone and perhaps not a lot to live for. But you still don't want to actually die, because death in any form seems painful. And maybe death is 'endless blackness'. The great dreaded fear of everyone.

      Then as time goes on you stop crying out for help. You start planning out the steps of how you want it to happen, how you want your last days to be. But a lot of the time it's just practice. Constantly practicing... endless practicing. The practicing relieves your stress even.

      And finally you start to become suicidal even on days when you're happy. Moreso on those happy days if you've decided long before you want to 'enjoy' your last days. Then things start to become very scary yet exhilarating feeling, like you're approaching the top of a roller coaster before the drop. Because you start to realize you're all alone in this. But even then you start to drop out hints to random strangers about your coming fate. More out of just a nervousness (probably the part this Japanese man reached when going to the chatroom). A part I've reached before even. Underestimation will rest all their fears, even of your closest friends or parents when you throw out suicidal hints like this. (DO NOT DO IT cus they WILL NOT save you, they will not stop you. Only you can save you!)

      And as the true hypocrite I am. I urge you not to go down this path. It's not worth it. If for no other reason than to not make your best friends or your parents cry after your death. You do have more to live for than you think you do and should at least give your life some more time to get better so much can change in a year; for better and worse but don't take the 'worse' as "The End" because things can get vastly better sometimes better than your situation before in the months after your worst.

      2010 has been the worst and best year of my entire life. My closest best friend shot herself with a shotgun and yet I'm happier now 7 months later than I've probably ever been in my entire life! The only possible thing that could make this moment better is if she was still alive to see it. Things can change on a dime, just stick along for the ride. And your friends (even your enemies) can surprise you if you just trust them and give them a reason to trust you.

    • 1 year ago
  • Jake_Leonard
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • So where can I see the video of it at? Did he use a large cal hand gun or hang himself or High voltage? or was it down the road not across the street that seldom works just makes a mess.I do have a strange fascination with death.

    • 1 year ago
  • christalestrellaPerez
  • EmperorThan
    • +3
      EmperorThan  

    • "well then.... WE NEED A LAW BANNING THE INTERNET" blah blah blah blah blah blah blah same story different year.

      God I'm tired of people pretending the ONE person who does this is part of a 'growing trend'. This is just the same 'technology is dangerous!' bullshit they've been saying about the Internet for the past decade now. "I heard someone responding to a Craigslist ad was MURDERED!" -Uhhh, I heard someone was murdered while out walking their dog the other day too? Does that mean I'm never going to walk my dog again now too?-

      People can think for themselves (SHOCKING I KNOW!!!) and if he STAYED IN THE CHATROOM then that was his choice, the same way killing himself was HIS CHOICE. No one FORCED HIS HAND to do it. Period.

    • 1 year ago
  • rhetoricallyineffective
  • rebel_scum
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      rebel_scum  

    • Population control. The powers that be know what stresses you out. A population that dense...on an island that small...OF COURSE the jap govt is tampering with them.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  

    • Man who seeks attention and was going to kill himself anyway kills himself in front of strangers, becomes "newsworthy."

      What a crock of shit.

    • 1 year ago
  • SuperGayJesus
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • SuperGayJesus:

      I prefer the classification of gnostic aesthete.

      If you kill yourself, or have become so delusional that you entrust the fate of your own life to complete strangers, you have failed in the most basic purpose of life. I won't feel sorry for anyone who kills themselves. Sure it's tragic that someone could be brought to that point, but I will not coddle or embrace cowardice at such a base level.

    • 1 year ago
  • themotivateddropout
  • tverdell
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  • NiceN
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      NiceN  

    • Sad, this also happened on Justin TV. The media hides these stories, I guess these stories are not newsworthy. Bringing these to the surface could possibly prevent others from repeating the same fate.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  
    • NiceN:

      No, it won't because people who are suicidal have already made up their mind. People like this man just want justification for ending their lives, WHICH HE SOUGHT by going to the chatroom.

      No one decides to kill themselves after a bad chatroom session without a preconceived long thought out plot to do so. Period.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  
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    • NiceN:

      Truly suicidal people can not be saved by others or loved ones, the only one who can save them is themselves.

      http://www.samaritans.org/

      Friends can help but only if the person wants help and doesn't want to prove a point. Like going into a room full of strangers and saying 'well not a single one of them saved me, then I must not be worth saving' That's irrational thinking that comes with suicidal thoughts. That's their justification, that's their proof that they deserve to die. There are suicidal hotlines and I imagine chatrooms to help people but he didn't seek those ones because his mind already had the answer he wanted before going into the chatroom.

      http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/2370/caranic.jpg

    • 1 year ago
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