Suicide Forest in Japan | Tokyo
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Like VICE News? Subscribe to our news channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News 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. Originally released in 2011 at http://vice.com Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Watch the last VICE Presents here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Presents-011 Subscribe for videos that are actually good: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com
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People don't commit suicide because they're alone, it's because they feel alone. I always feel alone and when i was way younger i tried to commit suicide but now i just think it's retarded. Just find something to keep your mind occupied and you'll feel way better trust me.
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How to trick a retard
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People also come to loot the dead corpses
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All my years in Japan Iv'e never visited there.
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Human body will decompose fully in less than 6 monts if its not buried and out in the open
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I found it disturbing and BTW you be careful out there my sister and brother thinks that it's no such thing of the suicide forest but I think it's real.
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suicide is one of the purest and yet most rudimentary form of art, don't kill yourself because you're a failure, kill yourself because you're too good for this world and all the rancid shit that lives in it,
fuck I think I'm tripping my anus off -
bye
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So much respect for this man.
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Welcome to the comments here we have pizza🍕, potatoes 🍟 and hamburgers
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Azusa Hayano may be a geologist, but he would have acquired an acute sense of apprehending that something is not quite right, while most people wouldn't notice.
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He is the buddhist munk
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So gloomy, So dark, yet at the same time so beautiful and peaceful. I'd love to take a trip to that forest.
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Its probably just a peaceful place to die.
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For everyone thinking about suicide. Read the book
"The power of now" by eckhart tolle. Gave me much solitude already. Have a nice day! -
many years on after coming to the video searching suicide methods I am glad I am still going myself with demons in my head. This is such an amazing video... Back in the days when Vice were great.
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i want to kill myself here
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They don't pick up the rubbish? wauw
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Why doesn't anyone clean out the debris and garbage?
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My school is going to have a field trip there...