Japanese Suicide Pacts

[Starship Coyote]

American kids aren't the only ones screwed up.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/10/japan.suicides.ap/index.html

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Six young Japanese were found dead from asphyxiation in a minivan Friday, charcoal stoves still smoking beside them -- apparently the latest victims of a surge in suicide pacts arranged over the Internet.
Authorities said they suspected the five men and a woman, all in their 20s, met online before dying together Thursday night in a forested area 50 miles northwest of Tokyo. The vehicle's windows had been sealed with tape.
Internet suicide pacts have occurred since at least the late 1990s and have been reported everywhere from Guam to the Netherlands. But in Japan, where the suicide rate is among the industrialized world's highest, officials are worried about a recent spate of such deaths.

Isn't that just like a fucking Nip...can't commit suicide without taking someone else out.

 

[Number_6]

This doesn't sound like the most pleasant way of departing this world.

Japan can be a very fucked-up place.