”Where’s my tail? You’ve got some nerve!”
Posted on 09/28/2025 6:16:06 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Suicide has overtaken cancer as the main cause of death among South Koreans in their forties for the first time since records began in 1983, amid growing concerns that the country is facing a mental health crisis.
The country recorded 14,872 suicides last year – a 6.3 per cent rise from the previous year and the highest figure since 2011 – according to the latest “2024 Cause of Death Statistics” published by Statistics Korea on Thursday.
While suicide has long been the leading cause of death among teenagers and people under 30, it became the top cause of death among those in their forties for the first time in 2024.
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Observers have also flagged the so-called “Werther effect” – a phenomenon in which public figures’ suicides trigger a spike in copycat cases, particularly among those in similar demographics. The term takes its name from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 18th-century novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, in which the protagonist dies by suicide.
한국인 여러분, 북한에 살지 않아서 다행입니다.
Uh...you want to translate that for the rest of the class?
“Dear Koreans, you should be glad that you don’t live in North Korea.”
I have read Japan has a high rate of suicides, perhaps not from same issue. I wonder if it has anything to do with culture making it acceptable and I’ve often wondered if you could bring someone back would the do that again.
But cancer is a terrible thing and i’m sorry so many are getting cancer.
Oh brother I thought the suicides were as a result of cancer but I just looked back and saw it’s a mental health crisis. Yike.
Oh brother I thought the suicides were as a result of cancer but I just looked back and saw it’s a mental health crisis. Yike.
It’s Frank Costanza saying “That guy, is not my kind of guy.” :-)
Unpardonable sin.
,,, I wonder if there’s a corelation to cellphone overuse in Korea and other places in Asia - or indeed any region that can be tacked to suicides.
“Suicide has overtaken cancer as the main cause of death among South Koreans in their forties”
feel they either missed out on making a solid career, or married family life, or both, and feeling its too late
Yes; thank goodness they don’t live in north korea; or maybe if they did, suicide might have been sooner
Yes; thank goodness they don’t live in north korea; or maybe if they did, suicide might have been sooner.
I believe the suicide rate in Japan is lower than South Korea.
I found this distinction interesting.
Its the karaoke. It would drive me to off myself as well. Karaoke.
I think Karaoke is equally popular in Japan, Korea and the Philippines, though what venues for it are most popular may differ.
”Where’s my tail? You’ve got some nerve!”
Koreans, be grateful you don’t live up North.
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