Another sad suicide
It was inevitable that after my post about suicides last week, related stories would be hitting the front pages. Just a day after, one of the Japanese statistics groups revealed that suicides in Japan were over 30,000 for the 10th straight year, and they were trying to work out what was going wrong. I really should send them a link to my site for some ideas. And then we had this story as the lead on the news websites this morning:
16-year-old girl hangs herself after message on blog tells her to die
Monday 02nd June, 03:21 AM JST
KITAKYUSHU - Police on Sunday said they are investigating the death of a 16-year-old high school girl who hanged herself on Thursday apparently after receiving an anonymous message on her school blog telling her to die.
According to police, the girl - a student at Mihagino Girlsf High School - hanged herself in her room at home on Thursday morning. Her parents notified police and the school. The parents told police that she had left a suicide note saying that a message on her blog had told her to kill herself. A school official said the message had been sent to the girlfs blog on Monday.
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This is yet another tragic loss of someone young and probably with a whole lot to live for. Now first of all, I think there has got to be some more to this story than a simple blog message saying “I want you to die” and her killing herself. Surely it can’t have been a single comment like that which drove her to take her own life. You would have to question if she was having issues at home or at school which started making her feel this way, and that this was the final straw. Issues at home could be something like parents only having a couple of minutes to talk to their child properly due to working so late, doing their “voluntary” overtime. Hopefully the police will trace this message that someone sent to her telling her to kill herself. Maybe the author of that message will be the key to finding out what has caused this tragedy.
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