I can't say it surprises me that much. Lonely people gravitate to the internet.
And Japan has much less of an animus against suicide than Western nations. It was considered the final way for disgraced samurai to regain their honour, and it still has not lost some of those connotations.
However, it is sad that otherwise healthy people are giving up on life so soon.
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Where there is a great deal of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. - Winston S. Churchill
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