Suicide in China High Drama Indeed
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 4, 2010 06:52 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Buildings, China, Guro, Image Gallery, Police, Suicide
China is fast catching up to Japan in more ways than one – some 300,000 Chinese are thought to kill themselves annually, a quarter of the global total, now being at or over those of suicide-loving Japan at an estimated 23 per 100,000 annually.
In fact, just as city skylines are soaring, so are suicide rates, and it is from these very buildings that many are choosing to cast themselves, so much so that Chinese emergency services sadly seem to be becoming very well equipped to deal with them…
The drama ensuing from these acts of urban theatre has become a staple of the Chinese media, but voices of sympathy are beginning to give way to voices of criticism at these self-indulgent “highjackings” of the public for acts of personal drama.











































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Silly people. The best form of suicide is to join an indy hardcore pro-wrestling or become stuntmen in action movies. At least you guys will get money for trying to kill yourself.
Easy to keep the potential suiciders from simple attention whores from these pics.
028, what a waste
so...anyone actually died in these pics? you know, cuz, that was the main reason i read this article
There was a guy with his head smashed on the ground. He may have survived, tho.
lol first guy is freestyln' his way to hell
hey i love chinese peope dont kill yourself
msg me at montesquieu_77@hotmail.com we'll talk.
第二张真是亮瞎我的狗眼1`
First pic: LOL epic leap
The man saluting to the camera wasnt even trying suicide, he actually went up there and threw the suicide attemptee down because he got tired of the traffic jam
Some of them just want attention...
Pic #23. No one gives a damn about a guy standing on the side of a freeway.
dude, see at the bottom of the picture...
well im board with life and i live in a first world country, all i have to look forward to is a 8-12 hour shift of work to make enough money to live and than sleep.
i know i will kill myself at some point.
i could never even imagine living in the third world making jack shit having nothing and living in hell and wanting to go on
China needs to build designated suicide towers cause you know, in China everything has its place.
welcome to capitalism..*sarcasm inside*
Half the bridges don't even look fatal. Like that one cop in the very back in the second pic. He's laughing his ass off. Like all that guy is going to accomplish is falling into that disgusting Chinese river.
Ridiculous.
If you want to die jump, don't stay there until someone arrives to "save you"... -_-'
Less chat more splat
lol china! stupid fucking crack whores!
Let's make "The Suicide Manual"... I mean... It's better for us... There must be more fresh air.
Signs of a depressed population. Strangely enough, one would be led to think Japan to be the most "happy" nation in the world with their high living standards statistics.
People in poor countries seem generally unhappy and even angry, since making your way in life is quite difficult. As countries become richer, their people becomes depressed because making a living becomes too easy and unrewarding. The middle ground is probably the people in developing countries, where they may be obliviously content with their own lives at the cost of a few corrupt ones taking the largest share of the country's wealth.
What a problematic bunch we are huh?
I wish you could step back from that ledge my friend............
most of this suicide seek attention.
they actually want a lot of people try to persuade them not to jump or more witness to see them go off in hoping more people cry for them.
real suicide would be very detail planned so nobody can know when to help, write suicide note in paper or in social network site and so on.
my bet on picture 13, the guy really jump before any crowd even there to persuade or help. once they wait for the crowd, its just a pathetic attention seeker.
hXXp://www.depressed.net/suicide/suicidefaq/
their reaction time is better than japan
Let them kill themselves.
There are too many humans out there.
"The Gods of Olympus have abandoned me. Now there is no hope." Replace the "me" with "thee" and I guess that pretty much sums up the pics in article.
It's the suicide club, China branch. Next time, maybe they'll try the train next time.
I don't know why those guise suicide that way... I mean... If I'd like to suicide I'd just jump! I won't wait til the police comes to get me down. They're just a bunch of idiots.
They're not commiting suicide, they just want to jump onto the inflatable bouncy thing.
High drama? Please, you guys don't even know what happened in that situation.
Chinese like extreme sports
well id say to those who say if they really wanted to do suicide they would do it somewhere else in their own room or something. seriously dude. its a lot easier to kill yourself by jumpin off from 1000000000000000feet tall building or from that bridge than cutting yourself to death or even hang yourself seriously i imagine that would be painful. id rather jump on that bridge or jump front of train. like that train thing. seriously it would be instant kill without pain.
also in asia there is alot fcked up areas what cant even be called Ghetto. they're worse. most of these public suiciders most likely are just trying to get some help or just trying to see if anyone cares.(oh noees theyre all aloooneee)
so basicly jareth ur wrong ;P there is many ways to do suicide but these kind of ones are actually best and fastest ones. especially for the poor. they cant afford gun. heck hanging is painful. cutting.. big no no. seriously most of *quick and easy* ways arent available for all. think about it. ^^
If they're going to do it "quick and easy" they should just fucking jump. Why stay there watching the rescue crew deploy that airbag?
maybe they just like high places...and jumping on a airbag can be fun xD
That first pic really needs to be in a vipper challenge.
Those people want to kill themselves, why not just let them do it, it's their choices. Beside, China is overpopulated, why not let the population get smaller.
The problem is that these people are doing it in places where they'll bother everyone else.
Yeah! Imagine a 50kg to 100kg person hitting your windscreen while you're driving on the road. Hellofway to start a pileup.
There should be more pics like #13 .Nothing bad in some dead people right ?
i agree. number 13 is the only one that shows wat it looks like to she them go splat.
first pic was from an actual drama lol.
I thought he looked far to handsome to be killing himself...
Maybe we should go there to fuck all suicide women, possibly that changes their mind^^
Only those who aren't fugly>_<
Chinese are so dramatic.Ha,ha,ha...
It wouldn't be such a fuss in Lithuania.
Pics needs Vipper challenge
I agree.
Only one splat pic?
Uh, they don't seem to have been very well equipped in #13.
I think if I lived in China I'd be a bit suicidal too.
That is the only and SAD reason.
Ugh, so much drama. You'd think a country with that many Nike factories has hear of "Just do it."
People with no actual intention of killing themselves are just emo attention grabbers. If they really wanted to commit suicide they would have done it in a less populated area or some other way.
This is China we're talking about. Most likely they lack the money to move to less populated places. And standing up above for real can be really scary, even if you want to end it all. And if your wasting a few minutes in this situation, you get the attention you didn't really wanted.
Nike shoes are made in Vietnam.
Nike SUCKS BIG TIME!
I don't want that shit even for free!
Picture 012 is just asking for a caption.
"To Infinity and beyond!"?
These people only wanted attention.
If they're really serious with committing suicide, just do it quick and somewhere where there aren't many other people around xD.
They're just waiting for someone to save them, actually.
it isn't always that easy to kill yourself. we have this innate desire in us to live. it is an extremely powerful feeling and many people have, even though they really want to die, when they look into the barrel of the gun they panic and chicken out. which is one of the reasons you get a lot of 'failed' suicide attempts. not all of them are attention seekers.
i don't understand how this stereotype has gotten so much momentum, to many people don't understand it i guess.
@Anon 16:29
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Yes, most suicidal people, also "emo" people just want attention.
http://verydemotivational.com/2010/04/15/demotivatonal-posters-its-okay-emo-kids/
^_______^
Ya, you can even do it in your own room or in the toilet. Jumping off a building isn't the only way to commit suicide. Mattaku~
There would be no style in that if your going to kill yourself you might as well do it with style.
Yea, it's like they need to announce to the world, "I'm gonna die!" and hope someone gives a shit about them and saves/rescues/talks them out of their leap of faith.
Look at all those traffic jam, damn selfish wanna be suicidal.
Alley oop
Hm. I see quite a few women in these pictures. Can China really afford to lose any more females?
The ugly ones yes. LESS PEOPLE TO FEED.
Yeah, good point!
let's create counter-teams that instead lay out bulls-eyes.
1st pic is EPIC!
and have a point system, where the bulls-eye is maximum points.
@18:16
Yes. :)
I think they should all just...
GET DOWN
Yureru mawaru fureru setsunai kimochi
Futari de issho ni nemuru Winter land
Anata dake mitsumete
Watashi dake mitsumete
Asu wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo
CHI-KA-U
is it seriously necessary to create a giant image compilation of people suiciding?
The question in most of these photos is; are they trying to commit suicide or are they being thrown over by chinese authorities?
The one with smashed head is nice = D
Finally something about stupid deaths ^^
Ouch!
But 300K is still not much for so many ppl, they will 3x that very soon. MARK MY WORDS!
Hey Korea is the Famous it include rich celebrities unlike others... unknown!
This is one of the greatest comments I've ever seen.
If theres no pics it never happened... The riff raff these days are losing it
If you wanna kill yourself, you kill yourself cleanly and quietly, like those emos in the bathtub cutting their wrists.
If you wanna make a statement, you jump off a building.
attention seekers...
When will people learn to just shoot themselves?
Actually I know someone who has to respond to a bathtub suicide, the smell of blood is absolutely revolting.
Just do a monoxide or pill cocktail overdose, be sure to notify someone in a delayed manner so you don't end up rotting in bed/car.
No need to make anyone sick.
I was there when the guy on the highway with the yellow air cushion underneath was trying to kill himself. Spent an hour stuck in traffic because of it.
Asshole.
Man, i didn't know that parkour was so popular over seas.
NO U
knew you didn't?
you didn't knew??
didn't you knew?
Hmm, Why are chinese so suicidal? Over-Population?
It could be the same thing that effects lemmings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWuiGWkd7mM
Fuck the Zabi Family! Except for dozle and miniva
It must be the recycled food.
More like: recycled shit.
But shit is originally food. Digested food but still food.
So yeah, 'recycled food' is most accurate.