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	Japanese Teen Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Experts say the Internet cannot be blamed for promoting suicide, but that the intensity of some of the chat rooms may worsen the psychological state of some of those involved.
		Saito, at the suicide hotline, warned that group suicides should not be blown out of proportion, adding that they make up only 2 percent of all Japanese suicides.
		Suicide sites have been credited with giving troubled youngsters a forum to discuss their feelings anonymously, and there have been reports of users being talked out of killing themselves.
	www.wendyjewels.com /articles/Nipsuicide.htm (1735 words)

	CyberSuicide: History and Issues
		The Internet is packed with what are called suicide sites, where those with the urge to end it all can find the best way to go about doing themselves in and can even find buddies so they don't have to perish alone.
		Chatrooms provide a space for adolescents - whether suicidal or interested in suicide - to exchange their thoughts, and may therefore allow risks and fantasies to be reduced, or may possibly increase the desire to commit suicide.
		The WHO claims that suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide over the past 45 years, arguably a reflection of both affluence and of the weakening of taboos against reporting attempted/completed suicide.
	www.caslon.com.au /cybersuicidenote.htm (2014 words)

	Concern over Japan's internet suicide pacts - Breaking - Technology
		Suicide pacts have been made over the Internet since at least the late 1990s, and have been reported everywhere from Guam to the Netherlands.
		In one incident of internet-linked suicide in late December, the bodies of three men and one woman were found in a vehicle parked at a rest stop along with charcoal stoves in the western city of Yabu.
		The number of suicides in the last three months of 2005 fell from the same period in 2004, to 11 people from 36.
	www.theage.com.au /news/breaking/concern-over-japans-internet-suicide-pacts/2006/02/09/1139465797644.html (468 words)

	Suicide as Japan’s major export? A note on Japanese Suicide Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1980, the suicide rate (the number of suicide per 100 thousand) was 22.9 for men and 13.3 for women.
		Because we are in a "nation of suicide", the issue of suicide has been periodically brought out to our attention by the mass media in the periods without other newsworthy topics.
		In February 2003, another suicide pact was reported, and it became a landmark incident of inter-net suicide pacts in Japan due to heavy media coverage.
	www.espacoacademico.com.br /044/44eueno_ing.htm (2641 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Web suicide pacts surge in Japan
		Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and the pacts may appeal to those scared to die alone.
		In one case in February, three men and three women who had contacted each other via the internet shut themselves in a car and lit charcoal burners, poisoning themselves with the carbon monoxide.
		Suicide has become a widely discussed topic on many websites in Japan, and there is even a guidebook to the best places to kill yourself.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4695864.stm (351 words)

	Japanese Internet suicide clubs targeted by police
		In fact, suicide is the single-biggest cause of death for those between the ages of 20 to 39, according to the health ministry.
		The number of suicides has exceeded 30,000 for the fourth year in a row, and the per capita rate of suicides is about twice that in the United States.
		Some bloggers argued that talking about killing oneself anonymously on the Internet is an important way for many young people to think about their lives and living in general.
	www.physorg.com /news7046.html (550 words)

	Suicide Fora on the Internet
		The rate of recidivism for suicide attempts is in the range of 20 to 30%, of which roughly 10% die within 3 years of the initial attempt.
		Suicide pacts have been known to happen since before the internet was invented and in daily clinical experience they do not take place over the internet.
		The development and funding of a project to scientifically study the effects of suicide fora and to develop the criteria for determining their dangers and to determine their role in preventing suicide would be meaningful.
	www.magpiebridge.net /suicidefora.htm (4396 words)

	Japan’s Chilling Internet Suicide Pacts
		The suicide pacts, which have resulted in at least 18 deaths since February, are shocking to experts, even in a nation plagued by an astronomical suicide rate.
		The Japanese government started funding suicide awareness programs and issued a booklet to corporations to be on the lookout for danger signs among employees and called on companies to offer counseling.
		In trying to explain Japan’s high suicide rate, it’s hard to ignore the influence of the samurai tradition, which glamorizes suicide as a warrior’s way to honorably escape from death at the hands of an enemy - or to escape disgrace.
	www.angelfire.com /ga4/suicideawareness/436.html (1538 words)

	Youth Suicide Problems: Gay/Bisexual Male Focus + More!
		Suicide attempt rate 22% and more than half the attempters (62%) are repeat attempters averaging 2.7 suicide attempts.
		An Internet survey reports a 44% suicide attempt rate for 198 GLBT respondents (Average age = 31-years-old); 80% of the first suicide attempts occurred before the age of 20.
		A survey of 255 GLB adults seeking counselling reports a suicide attempt rate of 41% and the average age of the first suicide attempt was 12-years-old.
	www.youth-suicide.com /gay-bisexual/index1.htm (2402 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight \| Japan's internet 'suicide clubs'
		In Japan, the internet has been blamed for a spate of group suicides which appear to have been arranged in online chat rooms.
		It is a growing, and morbidly frank underworld of chat rooms and websites with names like "Suicide Club," where thousands of (mainly young) people meet and talk and plan their deaths.
		Japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and so far the internet-related deaths are only a small proportion.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4071805.stm (911 words)

	Wired News: Internet Suicides Alarm Japan
		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.
		The number of internet suicide pacts has almost tripled from 2003, when the agency began keeping records.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,70386-0.html (789 words)

	Suicide - Internet & International Crisis Resources and Information
		A number of related support groups are available at: http://www.1000deaths.com/lists.html The "Emotional Support on the Internet" monthly posting by Steve Harris in news.answers lists various Internet resources for people seeking emotional support on a wide range of issues.
		Suicide Prevention Australia consists of a group of individuals and organisations working towards the common aim of suicide prevention nationally.
		Canada: The Suicide Information and Education Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada has a web page: http://www.siec.ca/ The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention: http://www3.sympatico.ca/masecard/index.html The Canadian Crisis Line and Sexual Assault Hotline Database is an extensive phone listing for all of Canada.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/suicide/resources (1066 words)

	Police, Internet Providers Try to Deter Online Suicide Pacts
		This April, Kyodo newswire reported a grimly typical case of suspected Internet suicide in which two men and a woman who were found dead in a car in Chichibu, a town in the Tokyo commuter belt.
		In other group suicides the victims are normally lovers, friends or at least known to each other, but in these cases police only find a connection when they check the victims’ computers or mobile phones.
		In 2004, 6.1 percent fewer people committed suicide than in the previous year but that was still an increase of 50 percent since 1994.The sharpest jump occurred at the end of the 1990s, near the peak of Japan’s recent economic down-turn.
	www.japanmediareview.com /japan/stories/051215mcnicol (1513 words)

	A VIRTUAL PATH TO SUICIDE / Depressed student killed herself with help from online discussion group
		There, Gonzales found people who told her that suicide was an acceptable way to end her despair, and who gave her instructions on how to obtain a lethal dose of potassium cyanide and mix it into a deadly cocktail.
		An additional 14 suicides are listed by the group as "success stories" but cannot be verified because the individuals used anonymous screen names, and the group has refused to disclose their true identities.
		In the United States, assisted suicide laws were passed to prevent people from deliberately helping others end their lives by supplying them with a method, such as enough drugs for a fatal overdose, or physically assisting them.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/08/MN114902.DTL (2726 words)

	Suicide websites
		Internet companies are being urged by the Home Office to make so-called suicide websites and chatrooms more difficult to access.
		Following a spate of online suicide pacts in Japan and elsewhere, psychiatrists are warning that Britain may be about to witness a disturbing new trend, with young people in particular using the chatrooms to make contact with other depressed individuals.
		The Home Office says people making postings to suicide chatrooms are not breaking the law unless they know that a suicide is being planned, and there is a direct link between their posting and the subsequent death.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /12436/suicide-websites (1850 words)

	Death Hyperlink: Internet Suicide Pacts
		In fact, suicidal patients often tell him in chilling language that other people's suicides gave them "inspiration" or "courage" to kill themselves.
		The suicidal person thinks, 'I want to be known by you, and if you truly empathize with me there is no question you will want to talk me out of it - because if you know me you know it is the right thing to do,'" Goodman says.
		"Suicide pacts are a very small proportion of suicides, and the number of Internet-linked suicides is still very small," he says.
	www.webmd.com /content/Article/97/104345.htm?pagenumber=2 (371 words)

	Professional Ethics \| Japanese internet suicide pacts
		It is not surprising that the rates of suicide and the link between the deaths and the internet have increased.
		Under the 'yes' column: suicide victims/-10, Japanese Govt/+10, families/+5 (victims are still depressed 'recluses' which causes families a certain level of 'unhappiness'), Japanese society as a whole/+7 (because the depressed victims are still in the society a +10 can not be assigned).
		To the left, would be rows indicating the parents of the suicide victims, the friends of the suicide victims, and the suicide victims themselves.
	ethics.tamucc.edu /articles/04/10/18/1740258.shtml (5990 words)

	Suicide pacts and the internet -- Rajagopal 329 (7478): 1298 -- BMJ
		Suicide pacts and the internet -- Rajagopal 329 (7478): 1298 -- BMJ
		suicide pacts, in which the victims are people with close relationships.
		Internet suicide pact, and charcoal burning Kathy PM Chan, et al.
	www.bmj.com /cgi/content/full/329/7478/1298 (979 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Seven Japanese die in 'Internet suicide' pact
		TOKYO – Japanese police said Tuesday they were investigating a group suicide in which seven people who got acquainted through the Internet killed themselves.
		Four men and three women, mostly in their 20s, were found dead in a car parked on a mountain in Minano, Saitama prefecture near Tokyo, the police said.
		Police said cases of "Internet suicide" had started to come to the fore in early 2003 and that a total of 34 people had killed themselves in such pacts.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041012-0608-odd-japan-suicide.html (260 words)

	ABC News: Another Japanese Internet Suicide Pact? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The van was parked about 13 miles away from the site of another group suicide Monday in which two women died and one was seriously injured.
		Although Internet suicide pacts are not new, they have been most common in Japan, where the suicide rate is among the highest in the industrialized world.
		The number of Internet suicide pacts has almost tripled from 2003, when the agency started keeping records.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1750283 (297 words)

	CNN.com - Man held over alleged Internet suicide plot - Feb 11, 2005
		The plan appears to include using webcams and the Internet to coordinate the suicides February 14, he said.
		Authorities do not know if the agreement is legitimate or a hoax, but they are investigating because one of the parties is a mother who also plans to kill her two young children, Evinger said.
		However, he said there doesn't appear to be any religious motivation, as has been the case with cult suicides.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/02/10/valentine.suicide/index.html (310 words)

	japan mental health: Internet Suicide Prevention
		Last year there were 55 Internet suicides involving 19 cases.
		Although this number is very small compared with the total suicide toll, the phenomenon is peculiar in that complete strangers with different motivations are getting together over the Internet to plan their deaths together.
		Police protection is important for treating the symptoms of someone contemplating suicide, but it is also important that the Internet community itself try to settle the problem of providing a venue for suicide.
	www2.gol.com /users/andrew/2005/05/internet-suicide-prevention.html (544 words)

	Internet suicide pacts suspected in Japan - World News - MSNBC.com
		Tuesday’s suicide of four young men and three women in the van would be the largest group suicide yet, the National Police Agency said.
		The spate of Internet-linked group suicides have led to calls for the government to close suicide message boards down, but experts say the problem lies more with a lack of suicide prevention efforts, not with people discussing death over the Web.
		Shinji Shimizu, professor at Nara Women’s University, said group suicides could be on the rise because young Japanese are not exposed to death as much as in previous generations as fewer relatives die around them.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6230510 (788 words)

	Japan's internet 'suicide clubs' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Naoki Tachiwana has searched the web for a suicide partner It is a growing, and morbidly frank underworld of chat rooms and websites with names like "Suicide Club," where thousands of (mainly young) people meet and talk and plan their deaths.
		Ama Terasu says it can be difficult to back-out of suicide pacts Japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and so far the internet-related deaths are only a small proportion.
		Suicide is a more traditional part of their culture than ours.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1296176/posts (1677 words)

	Internet suicide pacts claim six in Japan - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Authorities suspected the six met over the Internet before dying together Thursday night in a forested area about 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Tokyo.
		In Japan, where the suicide rate is among the industrialised world's highest, officials are worried about a recent spate of such deaths.
		In feudal Japan, the ritual was considered an honourable death under the samurai warrior ethic, and contemporary movies and sitcoms still abound with characters who take their own lives.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20060310T200000-0500_100317_OBS_INTERNET_SUICIDE_PACTS_CLAIM_SIX_IN_JAPAN___.asp (272 words)

	Suicide.org: Suicide Prevention, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Support - Suicide.org! Suicide.org! Suicide.org!
		Extensive suicide prevention hotline numbers, categorized by country or state, can be found on the
		My name is Kevin Caruso, and I have been working with suicidal people for over 30 years; and I have been firmly dedicated to suicide prevention, awareness, and support, so please let me share my experience with you.
		The first thing that I want you to know is that virtually every person that I have worked with who attempted suicide, and survived, was glad that they lived.
	suicide.org (1505 words)

	CNN.com - Mother's Web warning after suicide - Sep 8, 2005
		But a police officer said that after Carina went missing her computer was checked, and it was found that she had visited a number of suicide sites.
		He said a suicide note was found in her e-mails.
		The court heard that two suicide notes were found close to her body.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/09/08/britain.suicide/index.html (375 words)

	Japanese suicides gather on the internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Minutes after the apparent group suicide was discovered, police found the bodies of two women who had evidently fulfilled a similar suicide pact.
		The pacts were apparently formed in internet suicide sites, which have become more popular over the past year, police said.
		Japan's suicide rates are among the highest in the world, with more than 32,000 suicides last year, a record number.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2004/10/12/net_suicide_041012.html (1213 words)

	Japan Faces Wave Of Web Suicide Pacts, Bullying, Breakups And Abuse Driving Teens And Young Adults To Suicide Chat ...
		In a similar case earlier this week, a man and two women in their 20s and 30s were found dead in Aomori, 360 miles northeast of Tokyo.
		But experts have said the crackdown will only drive suicidal people to use more obscure or overseas providers, which are almost impossible to regulate.
		But preventing Internet-related suicides among younger people is a whole different matter, he said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/10/world/main1391607.shtml (984 words)

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