Japan Suicide Hotline Gets 700,000 Calls Per Year
 

Japan's hotline for people considering killing themselves is stretched to its limit, with the economic crisis feared to be worsening the country's suicide problem, its director says. A national suicide hotline run by the Telephone Lifeline association is struggling to meet demand, with 7,000 volunteers handling some 700,000 calls a year.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-12377,00.html

whats the number

holy crap. why are they suicidal?

They dishonor their families! They die now!

they can live with me under my sink. ill move my vomit bucket and i can fit 3 to 4 more

insane i never thought so many Japanese people wanted to kill themselves.

Best time to get some Jap suicidal pussy :(

Surprised it is that low.

It's an extremely restrictive society with a large number of very isolated individuals, social status is very important, and openly discussing problems is often frowned upon.

From a psychological viewpoint, a true nightmare of a country.

damn that bad they need bongs and jungle juice that shit can cheer up the whole island did here in college lol

recession

wow, that's so sad :(

I bet it's a lot of guys.

I have heard that guys have to wait for the female to ask them for a date.
That could really slow things down to the point of getting depressed.

How many people actually commit suicide every year in Japan??

I have known that for years. I used to point out their suicide rate whenever one of my high school honours class teachers tried to use 'the Japanese are so much better students' thing against us.

It had to be depressing to live in a place where everyone looks almost exactly the same.

But it's not as though uneducated people in the US don't commit suicide.

It may be that uneducated people in the US get killed in gang wars before
they have a chance to be a suicide stat. :1orglaugh

Ya suicide rate is massive over there.

Suicide is more acceptable in that country than here, from what I understand.

I think it's because they censor porn. Makes a lot of people sad.

Reminds me of the ol'Samuria movies any disgrace their would disembowel themselves. Sad seems like such a cool culture, hopefully the country opens up abit.

Any sponsor selling personal suicide kits?
Perhaps japaneese prefer to buy them instead of viagra or penis enlargement pills.

Seems like emerging market. I want per signup/buy program because recurring for such customers seems difficult unless the suicide kits are designed to fail.

If you're married, you want to kill the bitch; if you're single, you want to kill yourself... From what I read most japans stay single...

Google hara kiri

There you go...

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Lets start a Pay per call suicide hotline... for the billionaires