suicide forest japan/මරණයට ගිය ගමනක්

#suicide#forest#Aokigahara#japanAokigahara is sometimes referred to as the most popular site for suicide in Japan.[12] In 2003, 105 bodies were found in the forest, exceeding the previous record of 78 in 2002.[13] In 2010, the police recorded more than 200 people having attempted suicide in the forest, of whom 54 completed the act.[14] Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan.[12] As of 2011, the most common means of suicide in the forest were hanging or drug overdose.[14] In recent years, local officials have stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to decrease Aokigahara’s association with suicide.[15]

The rate of suicide has led officials to place a sign at the forest’s entry urging suicidal visitors to seek help and not take their own lives. Annual body searches have been conducted by police, volunteers, and journalists since 1970.[16][17][18]

The site’s popularity has been attributed to Seichō Matsumoto’s 1961 novel Nami no Tō (Tower of Waves).[19][20] However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara predates the novel’s publication, and the place has long been associated with death; ubasute may have been practiced there into the nineteenth century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the yūrei of those left to die.