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snooper2

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5. location? In Japan they have the Aokigahara Forest

Reply to Ranchemp. (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 02:22 PM

Nov 2013

The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.

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Police: Katherine Harris' husband commits suicide [View all] mfcorey1 Nov 2013 OP

hmmmmm. nt grasswire Nov 2013 #1

That's sad...RIP... joeybee12 Nov 2013 #2

At least he had a mansion to kill himself in. TeamPooka Nov 2013 #3

And just WTF does that have to do with his suicide? Ranchemp. Nov 2013 #4

location? In Japan they have the Aokigahara Forest snooper2 Nov 2013 #5

That they live in a 23,000-square-foot home on Sarasota Bay? TeamPooka Nov 2013 #6

Well, if you chose to go, Ranchemp. Nov 2013 #8

I don't either. TeamPooka Nov 2013 #9

My condolences to the family Kaleva Nov 2013 #7