Today’s insane new method of suicide: getting lost in a forest

The Japanese have come up with another novel way of committing suicide: getting lost in a forest and dying of exposure, starvation, or whatever other perils await you. The forest of choice is Aokigahara Forest, also called the Sea of Trees. Of course it’s crazy, but it’s so typically Japanese; I can’t see any other [...]

Read Full Post »

Murder on the theatre stage

An Austrian actor accidentally slit his throat on stage during a performance of Mary Stuart, a play about Mary Queen of Scotts.
The actor meant to use a blunt, prop blade to cut his throat during a suicide scene. The audience cheered what they thought to be realistic special effects, and only realised something was [...]

Read Full Post »

Another public suicide: man kills self on live TV

Hot on the heels of the online suicide posted by S, an ex-police officer in Buenos Aires has committed suicide on live TV just after completing an interview. The man, Mario Ferreyra, shot himself fatally in the head as he was about to be arrested on charges for alleged human rights violations.
“Maria, goodbye,” Mario Ferreyra [...]

Read Full Post »

Today’s insanity: Man’s vomit poisons 54 people

Now I don’t know what kind of toxic system you need to have for this to happen, but apparently some guy in Kumamoto, Japan, managed to poison 54 other people around him just by vomiting. Allegedly, he drank copious amounts of pesticide, possibly in a suicide attempt. Either that, or he was hallucinting that his [...]

Read Full Post »

Today’s insanity: Death by detergent

A 14 year-old girl in Tokyo committed suicide by mixing laudry detergent with cleanser, creating hydrogen sulphide fumes which killed her, and sickened at least 10 others in a neighboring apartment block. However, this isn’t the first detergent-related suicide to occur in Tokyo:
The girl’s suicide on Wednesday night was part of a rapidly expanding [...]

Read Full Post »