Aokigahara Suicide Forest
Peer pressure is a
hell of a thing, but the Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mount Fuji is
something else. The preternaturally quiet area is associated with
multiple demons in Japanese folklore, and there’s something about these
woods that drives people to suicide. An average of 100 people travel to
Aokigahara every year to kill themselves, mostly by hanging and drug
overdose. Signs are posted all through the forest to discourage
potential suicides, but they don’t seem to be working so well. Death has
haunted the forest for more
than
two hundred years, too. Legend has it that in the 19th century,
families would abandon their elderly relatives there to die when they
could no longer take care of themselves
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