Man Commits Suicide Live on U-Stream

Now this is bizarre! News Time reports that a Japanese man has committed suicide on live streaming on the Internet:

Reports from Japan today say that a 24 year old man took his life live on the Internet.

The suicide occured after the man - who comes from the city of Sendai - had posted complaints about his job online after being placed on extended sick leave from August.

On Sunday night he broadcast his intentions to kill himself on live streaming service Ustream. He had been discussing his views on life with an audience on the site.

His broadcast received feedback from users with some encouraging him to end his life as he planned.

On Tuesday he resumed his broadcast and he hung himself at around 05h30 in the morning.

The Ustream service stopped the broadcast around half an hour later after receiving reports from viewers. The man’s body was found by police later in the morning.

Japan has averaged over 30,000 suicides a year for the past 12 years which is one of the world’s highest suicide rates. 

Suicide by Sex?

The Tokyo Reporter, once again, goes where no other Japan related publication dares go.

There is an old story in Japanese lore that it is possible to commit consensual suicide by having sex until they die. It is called "Muri Shinju" in Japanese.

The Tokyo Reporter writes:

Rumor in some quarters has it that a couple bent on muri shinju (love suicide) can shuffle off this mortal coil by means of crazed, consensual coitus.

In other words, literally f**king each other to death.

A loving couple’s motivation for such an act would be through the fervent desire “to be together alive, together while dying and together even after death.”

To get this right, the couple would presumably need to experience simultaneous — or as near as they can get to simultaneous — death throes. And as the ultimate achievement of passionate passing-on, it should happen with the genitals still in a position of penetration, with the two partners emulating an ailing internal combustion engine that seizes, freezes and breaks down, emanating its death rattle in the form of smoke fumes from the radiator. 

If you want to know more about if it is indeed possible to commit suicide by sex... Check out the Tokyo Reporter.