![]() ![]() "As soon as the news hits that someone's committed suicide in one of our apartments, rents have to drop by about half or we can't get anyone else to live there," laments a Tokyo real estate agent. The costs are usually in the range of 100 million yen, but I've heard of a case where a family was billed 140 million yen after someone killed themselves by jumping in front of a train." "But to make sure we can cover the costs incurred when a suicide leads to a derailment, we have to ask the bereaved families of suicide victims to compensate us. In that regard, train suicides probably don't cost too much," says an employee of a commuter line. "Trains don't usually stop too long after a suicide, there's rarely much damage to carriages and we rarely have to send anyone off to catch trains on different lines. Paying for suicide costs more than the ultimate price This one is from Shukan Hoseki (10/1/98) a bit old. Waiwai is the Mainichi Daily News summary of articles from Japanese Weeklies. The original article below is from 1998, but suicides have increased since then, making it more relevant. It is said that Japanese mental health medicine is 30 years behind the US ( Although Kurokawa-sensei is trying to do something about that.) So it makes sense that cleaning up after a suicide is as common as cleaning up after a traffic accident and people are being billed the costs. Japan's suicide rate is among the top 10 in the world. So, while many Silicon Valley ventures were built buy people who had lost their jobs in the defense industry. Most of the suicides are men in the 50's and 60's and often due to job related and financial stress. Over 3X the 10,000 or so automobile related deaths. ![]()
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