Here in Japan we should think about the reason why people commit suicide.
Nowadays, we can often hear the sad news about someone committed suicide in Japan.
In the past, this situation was rare.
Unfortunately, Japan is the seventh place of suicide around the world.
This fact shows Japan is the highest rate of suicide in developed nations.
Surprisingly, 88 Japanese people commit suicide every day.
Also, suicide is seventh cause death in Japan.
Then, let me begin with why so many people kill themselves.
There are lots of reasons, but I would like to focus on some of the reasons.
In general, there are four basic causes of suicide: economy, relationship, environment, and health.
One of the causes is economy.
This is the second cause of the death in Japan, especially among office workers.
Japan is an economic power, but in the field of politics, Japan is also a nation which has a lot of debt.
Japan has many problems such as cheap labor, over competition among firms, bankruptcy of small and medium-sized businesses, a tax increase and reduction of social security.
In the circumstances, it is not easy for the citizens to live comfortably and easily.
Even though it is true that Japan is a rich country, it is hard to survive.
If a man lost his job or has a large amount of debt, he cannot earn a living and if he has a family, he is not able to support for his family.
Moreover, there is few livelihood protection service in Japanese society.
Many people commit suicide for their families.
Some of them decide to commit suicide in order to save and prevent their families from suffering.
They take out a policy on their lives before they do kill themselves.
Although suicide is thought as a selfish act in other countries especially in Western countries, it is thought as a sincere behavior in Asian countries.
Then, relationship is one of the major factors of suicide.
For example, there are romantic relationship, family relationship, and friend relationship.
When people disappointed love, they will absolutely sad and depressed.
However, in most case, their broken heart will be healed after a couple months passed and eventually started a new romance.
Nevertheless, there are some people who are thrown into despair by disappointment in love and they can bear the broken heart no longer and if worst comes to worst, they might drown themselves out of disappointment in love.
Therefore, disappointment in love sometimes has an evil effect on one’s whole life.
The other factor is losing an important person such as best friends, family, and lovers.
Losing a loved one can trigger intense feelings of grief.
For some people, this grief can lead to depression or make underlying depression worse.
When an important person died, everyone will be sunk in sorrow.
Even though they felt grief, the grief disappeared as time went by.
However, some people can be depressed for many years and become thinking the life without an important one is boring and has no meaning.
Environment is also big cause of suicide.
The Japanese suicide rate of young people is highest over the world and this is a social problem.
Suicide rate of the range of Japan.
The main reasons are bullying and job shortage.
Unfortunately, there are people who killed themselves at a young age in the world.
When we hear the word bullying, most people think of fact to full situations.
However, it is not only reason that students commit suicide.
Science technique has been developed lately and bullying has been spread to devices.
The latest bullying has occurred in SNS, so teachers can hardly notice the bullying than before.
Some education critics said that it happens naturally in the community life of children.
A research said that there were only 10% of students unconnected to bullying during student.
A middle school is the largest number of bullying period.
However, bullying is not only occurred in children, but also in adult.
For example, violence, power harassment, and sexual harassment occur in workplaces.
Victims of bullying are lonely.
They cannot tell anyone even parents and teachers.
They are pushed to the wall and finally they think suicide is the only way to escape this pain.
In addition, job shortage is also social problem in Japan.
In modern Japanese society, a lot of university students who have no job even want to work do kill themselves.
More than 1,000 university students who failed job hunting chose suicide in 2012.
They don’t commit suicide only because they fail job hunting.
The pain of job hunting is complex such as eyes in society, apology to the parents, and upset by their own uselessness.
Finally, health problem is also cause of suicide.
A research claims that 42% of the people who suicide because of the health problem suffer from depression.
In short, melancholia is a problem related to death.
At the same time, suicide is a symptom of melancholia.
A lot of patients of melancholia think about suicide over and over.
When people become melancholy, they can feel anxiety and fretfulness, and think “ the illness will never recover.”
As a result, they do suicide.
Another cause is serious illnesses including cancer.
When you hear your serious disease which cannot live long from the doctor, what will you do?
Most people want to be treated and live longer, but this case is there is a cure for the disease and they have enough money to pay a doctor’s fee.
Well then, how about the people who have no cure for the disease or have not enough money?
The people who are suffered from economic hardship cannot pay a fee, so if they want to be treated, they have to borrow a plenty of money and their debts keep mounting.
Moreover, if they have a family, this is a heavy burden for their family, so they cannot tell the illness to the family and suicide to avoid the pain of disease.
In conclusion, people tend to think about their own life lightly.
Life is very precious.
However, there has been lots of sad news about suicide lately.
There are lots of reasons of suicide but I think that there is a common point between them.
The biggest reason of suicide is feelings like ‘ I want to escape from the present situation.’
People who commit suicide think that suicide means liberation.
Most people said that suicide is bad.
However, we cannot say to the people who feel like living is hell because we cannot understand their feelings.
The people who decide to commit suicide suffered from economical, relationship, environment, and serious health problem.
These problems cannot be solved by themselves.
I believe that the suicide problem in Japan is caused by Japanese culture and education such as bullying at schools and workplaces, responsibilities, and stressful society.
Japanese society is called upon to solve these problems as soon as possible.
Also, we should think and try to understand their feelings.
There are many arguments for and against assisted suicide, the answer of whether it is right or wrong remains unanswered.
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