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Aokigahara - “The Suicide Forest”
A forest in Japan, also known as “The Sea of Trees”, which has long had an association with demons in Japanese mythology. Due to the lack of wildlife and the wind-blocking effect of the trees, the forest is almost completely silent. This place has become notorious as one of the most common places for suicides to happen, second in the world after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; the numbers have been steadily increasing in more recent years, with 247 attempted suicides in 2010. Volunteers scour the forest in annual ‘body hunts’, and signs have been erected in both English & Japanese urging people to reconsider taking their lives. However, some of the bodies aren’t discovered for years, and the forest is littered with corpses and skeletons.

Aokigahara - “The Suicide Forest”

A forest in Japan, also known as “The Sea of Trees”, which has long had an association with demons in Japanese mythology. Due to the lack of wildlife and the wind-blocking effect of the trees, the forest is almost completely silent. This place has become notorious as one of the most common places for suicides to happen, second in the world after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; the numbers have been steadily increasing in more recent years, with 247 attempted suicides in 2010. Volunteers scour the forest in annual ‘body hunts’, and signs have been erected in both English & Japanese urging people to reconsider taking their lives. However, some of the bodies aren’t discovered for years, and the forest is littered with corpses and skeletons.

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