What do you think of Aokigahara forest?

[SadFoxDreamer83]

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

Another amazing thing ruined by society...

Logan Paul: Outrage over YouTuber's Japan dead man video

Six million people watched the film showing Logan Paul finding an apparent suicide victim in Japan.

www.bbc.com

 

[OptingOutSmiling]

Saw the movie some time ago

 

[cme-dme]

"I think there's someone hanging over there"
Sounds like a lovely place 10/10 would hang myself again. Although if I did hang myself there then I am to some extent associating myself with Logan Paul and I don't know how I would feel about that :(

 

[MercenariesofMidgar]

I thought of burning the rest of my money and just visiting japan until the end of my trip--- where I'd CTB. i don't have the balls for that though LMAO. Maybe in the next life.

 

[Forever Sleep]

It looks beautiful. I remember in the documentary, there were all these strings of wool that people would use to mark their way in/ out- if they changed their mind.

Dying outside- apart from the beautiful view and being in nature, doesn't really appeal to me though. Too cold probably. I don't like the risk factor of being found and disturbed before either or, my corpse being stumbled on by someone random.

 

[Yume Nikki]

It's complicated, I find it heartbreaking that life itself is so cruel that people had to resort to finding a secretive location to end it all, but I understand why some could be driven to that point considering Japan's views of suicide vastly differ from ours.

I hate how the media has turned the forest into some creepy bogeymen tourist attraction to visit. This isn't a place that's supposed to scare others, it's a place of mourning, these Japanese people died as a result of the system they grew up in, or for other reasons we'll never know, its purpose is to respect the lives that were lost and why it happened in the first place, not to create silly campfire stories about ghosts.

But of course, influencers like Logan Paul don't care obviously, I think his reaction to seeing someone ctb embodies how majority of the world views suicide, it's just a way to create a sense of shock value while preaching about mental health at the same time. People ONLY start caring once someone's dead and not before when they were alive. And yet, even if Logan Paul was 'canceled' for this years ago, pretty much everybody has forgotten about it and still follow/support his content to this day. Imagine being the person whose body was exploited by an influencer and not knowing it, the situation would further strengthen my views on why humanity as a whole sucks in general. No one cared before, and they still didn't care now.