Japan Girl Commits Suicide With Detergent

90 Neighbors Sickened By Fumes As Authorities Grapple With Spate Of Similar Suicides

(AP)  A 14-year-old Japanese girl killed herself by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, releasing fumes that also sickened 90 people in her apartment house, police said Thursday as they grappled with a spate of similar suicides.

None of the sickened neighbors in Konan, southern Japan, were severely ill, although about 10 were hospitalized, authorities said. The deadly hydrogen sulfide gas escaped from the girl's bathroom window and entered neighboring apartments.

The girl's suicide Wednesday night was part of an expanding string of similar deaths that experts say have been encouraged by Internet suicide sites since last summer.

A 31-year-old man outside Tokyo killed himself inside a car early Thursday by mixing detergent and bath salts, police said. A local police spokesman refused to give further details, but Kyodo News agency reported the man put a sign reading "Stay Away" on the car window.

At a business hotel in Shiga prefecture in western Japan, a man in his 30s was found dead Thursday morning by employees who noticed a strange smell coming from his room, according to national broadcaster NHK. Shiga police said officials are investigating the incident as a case of suicide by hydrogen sulfide gas but could not elaborate.

Reports of another similar death emerged Thusday afternoon when the body of a 42-year-old woman in Nagoya, central Japan, was found in a bathtub. According to Kyodo, there was toilet cleaner and bath powder nearby, along with a sign outside that read, "Poisonous gas being emitted. Caution."

Nagoya police said they could not comment on the case, but Kyodo said that fire officials called to the scene did not detect hydrogen sulfide gas.

The method has alarmed officials because of the danger that bystanders can be hurt.

"It's easy and everyone can do it," said Yasuaki Shimizu, director of Lifelink, a Tokyo-based group specializing in halting suicides. "Also there is a lot of information teaching people how to do it on the Internet."

Police say they have not tallied the number of detergent-related suicides, but media reports suggest it has reached about 30 this year, including several cases in which others were also sickened.

The 14-year-old girl, whose name was not released by police, followed the pattern of other deaths.

She mixed detergent with a liquid cleanser in her bathroom, police said. The door was closed, and she had affixed a sign on the outside warning, "Gas being emitted," Kyodo reported.

Most of those sickened nearby complained of sore throats, and about 30 people were evacuated to a nearby gymnasium.

Hydrogen sulfide gas is colorless and characterized by an odor similar to that of rotten eggs. When inhaled, it can lead to suffocation or brain damage.

Japan's government has long battled to contain the country's alarmingly high suicide rate. A total of 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006, giving the country the ninth highest rate in the world, according to the government.

Suicides first passed the 30,000 mark in 1998, near the height of an economic slump that left many bankrupt, jobless and desperate.

The government has earmarked $220 million for anti-suicide programs to help those with depression and other mental conditions.

Last year it set a goal of cutting the suicide rate by 20 percent in 10 years through steps such as reducing unemployment, boosting workplace counseling and filtering Web sites that promote suicide.

[veteran72]

Since this story is about a Japanese girl wacking herself with household chemicals, and all I see are religious references, I''m figuring singinreich is to blame. Anyone know what the little buttweasle uses for a handle now that CBS banned him for religious spamming and threatening people???.......
the perverted little scumbag.....

[whatisit21]

Not a one of you said anything worth listening to.

[whatisit21]

Not a one of you said anything worth listening to.

[nothappyatall]

Jesus Christ known to 11% of world''s population,
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Religion Today, 2001-JAN-25, at:

http://news.crosswalk.com/religion/item/

Take your pick sbbm, either way you slice or dice it the majority of the world does NOT believe in your gezus, and according to your book of death they are ALL going to hel1

[nothappyatall]

"World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200," estimates that as of 2000, Christians make up 33% of the world''s population, with close to two billion followers.

Author Samuel Huntington disagrees: "The percentage of Christians in the world peaked at about 30% in the 1980s, leveled off, is now declining,

and will probably approximate to about 25% of the world''s population by 2025.
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As a result of their extremely high rates of population growth, the proportion of Muslims in the world will continue to increase dramatically, amounting to 20 percent of the world''s population about the turn of the century, surpassing the number of Christians some years later, and probably accounting for about 30 percent of the world''s population by 2025.

[nothappyatall]

"World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200," estimates that as of 2000, Christians make up 33% of the world''s population, with close to two billion followers.

Author Samuel Huntington disagrees: "The percentage of Christians in the world peaked at about 30% in the 1980s, leveled off, is now declining,

and will probably approximate to about 25% of the world''s population by 2025.
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As a result of their extremely high rates of population growth, the proportion of Muslims in the world will continue to increase dramatically, amounting to 20 percent of the world''s population about the turn of the century, surpassing the number of Christians some years later, and probably accounting for about 30 percent of the world''s population by 2025.

[nothappyatall]

3/4 of the planet eh...you cant be serious that "fact" was provided to you by Youtube?? Thats what''''s laughable -
Posted by sbbm

Laugh at THIS from a CHART then;

According to David Barrett et al, editors of the "World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200," there are 19 major world religions which are subdivided into a total of 270 large religious groups, and many smaller ones. 34,000 separate Christian groups have been identified in the world. "Over half of them are independent churches that are not interested in linking with the big denominations." 13 Most people in the world follow one of the religions listed in the table below.

These data are based on census or public opinion data.1Thus, a person is considered to be of a particular religion if they say that they are of that faith.

Basic information on various religions:
Christianity 2,039 million 32% of world pop (dropping)

Islam 1,226 million 19% (growing)

Hinduism 828 million 13% (stable)
No religion 775 million 12% (dropping)
Chinese folk rel. 390 million 6%
Buddhism 364 million 6% (stable)
Tribal Religions, Shamanism, Animism 232 million 4%

All the rest 2% or less of world population

SOURCE: /www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm

have fun sbbm!

[incog-nito]

A godless non Christian nation, what else is there to expect?


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Posted by sblake63 at 08:41 AM : Apr 25, 2008

I agree. People in Godly, Christian nations like the U.S. do it differently. They get a boatload of weapons, and take out as many innocent people as they can, before they kill themselves. Read about it in your daily news.

[demwatcher]

Posted by andrew_693 at 04:40 PM : Apr 25, 2008

Spoken like a closet pedophile.

[nothappyatall]

where in the Bible does it say that those who kill themselves will go straight to he11? I can''''t seem to find it.

Posted by markbrookhar"

Who cares, its a work of fiction anyway, funny how the right wingers thought of the only way to prevent fellow right wingers from killing themselves to be with gezus sooner- just claim you will go to hel1 instead LOL that one is so easy to see through its laughable.
FUnny thing is, 3/4 of the planet who doesn''t believe in this gezus figure are supposedly going to hel1 ANYWAY, so it doesnt matter what they do at all- they are already going there anyway!

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