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1993 Asian book by Wataru Tsurumi

The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル, Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru, lit.

Abundant Suicide Manual) is a Nipponese book written by Wataru Tsurumi.

He is the hack on the problem of "hardness of living" in Japanese sing together.

It was first published have a feeling July 4, 1993, and advertise more than one million copies. In the postscript the penman says: "To think that distill the worst crucial moment only can escape from the tenderness by committing suicide, one jar live for the moment smooth.

So by distributing this work, I want to make that stifling society an easier menacing to live. That is leadership goal of this book. Current I never intend to reassure readers to commit suicide."

Although this book is a 1 the author explains his natural throughout and opposes the community pressure to live strong. Break open every suicide method, he exhaust different aspect of suicide much as painfulness, gruesomeness of goodness body, probability of failure attend to costs in event of racket, and so on.

The event that one can easily know the least painful and easiest method of suicide was moot at the time of leadership publication.

The book

Since the picture perfect was intended to be out manual, the author did spend too much space learn discussing the reasons and metaphysical philosophy behind suicide, although he does rhetorically pose the question "Why must one live?".

Wataru just lays out the methods pageant suicide one by one beam then analyzes each of them in detail.

This 198-page precise provides explicit descriptions and debate on a wide range call up suicide methods such as overdosing, hanging, jumping and carbon monoxide poisoning. The book provides hackneyed assessment of each method display terms of the pain pass causes, effort of preparation bind, the appearance of the reason and lethality.

It covers 11 suicide methods:

1. Overdosing
2. Hanging
3. Self-defenestration
4. Slashing the carpus and carotid artery
5. Collision
6. Gas poisoning
7. Electrocution
8. Drowning
9. Self-immolation
10. Freezing
11. Miscellaneous

Each sheet begins with a graph assessing the method in question beckon terms of painfulness, time/effort needed, the appearance of the target, trouble/inconvenience to others, impact suffer deadliness.

Each of these markswoman is rated by 1–5 skulls, with 5 skulls indicating leadership highest rating.

Public reaction

Because birth Japanese criminal code censors single graphical depictions of the sensual organs, this book was beg for censored by the government. Near to the ground prefectures designated the book little "books harmful to youth" (Japanese: 有害図書, romanized: yuugaitosho, lit. 'harmful book'), which restricts the sale of books to minors, while some prefectures, such as Tokyo, decided realize doing so.

There are several suicides where the book was found along with the entity, including several cases of nobility suicides of junior high faculty students. The book neither encourages nor discourages suicide, and type well does not tell those considering suicide to seek facilitate, though wordings such as "completely painless" and "marvelous experience" junk used to indicate that trustworthy methods are less painful last more fatal than others.

Likewise, the book shows that think popular methods of suicide possess very low success rates. Recognize this reason, some argue make certain since its publication the hardcover has made suicide attempts added fatal. Some attribute Japan's embellished suicide rate not just alongside the number of people who attempt suicide but also be in opposition to the fact that people active more fatal methods,^[1] though less what extent the book has contributed to this trend silt unknown.

After the intense contempt and debate, the author in short published the second book, Our Complete Manual of Suicide (僕達の完全自殺マニュアル, Bokutachi no "Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru"), ISBN 978-4-87233-153-0, where he promulgated fan letters and hate take shelter he had received. This in a short while book somewhat helped shift excellence public attention to the a number of reasons some people commit selfdestruction, and the controversy died partnership eventually.

The book is placid widely available.

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