A dark but really informative post.
Do you think prevention could help here, or is a slow change in society the only possible solution.
Extra:
Do you know if they (the youth) prefer some more 'honourable' methods of taking their own life?
(I feel bad for typing this, it feels so insensitive, but I'm generally interested and I feel like it is in line with you article)
Striking Knife or sword on the Navel was kinda Honourable
Sorry for the vague question, I meant the youth in recent years. Edited it in my original post.
But maybe still a follow-up question; I read somewhere that it was tradition to pass on swords (especially the long samurai swords), does this also apply to their striking knife after the seppuku?
seppuku was used either voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves