Several years ago, I found an okay translation of the book’s preface and just dug up a document I’d copied and pasted it to. I, geefitch, did not translate this myself, but I did clean it up as much as possible to make it more understandable. Some bits are still a bit hazy, but you get the gist. I neither condemn nor condone suicide by posting this, rather The Complete Manual of Suicide is one of my many morbid interests and I find the preface quite disturbing. That’s saying a lot. This book has been found on bodies in the famous Aokigahara Forest and the preface itself provides a very dark insight into a certain mindset of youth and young adults at a very particular time in Japan’s history - a time which saw the aftermath of the economy’s bubble collapse (refered to as “The Lost Decade), the ripples of which stretched far and wide across the country - among the other, usual factors (discussed in the text to come.) Culturally, I feel this is some striking and unique stuff. He says ”I can take the drug and commit suicide whenever I need to.” My friend has no fixed job. He lives in idleness and is very happy about it. The Peaceful Pill Handbook is a book setting out information on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Written by the Australian doctor Philip Nitschke and lawyer Fiona Stewart, it was originally published in the U.S. in 2006. A German edition of the print book— Die Friedliche Pille—was published in 2011. A French edition— La Pilule Paisible—was published in June 2015. Ever since it came out in 1993, I had a vague impression that this book is nothing but an emo kids’ bible, a so called “メンヘラ” type of book; a book that tells you that it’s okay to feel ostracized, to feel different, that there is a way out of everything, i.e. suicide. I thought this was a book that tells people to kill themselves. assisted suicide group members are arrested". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03 . Retrieved 2022-05-14.

Humphry, Derek (2008) Good Life, Good Death: Memoir of an investigative reporter and pro-choice advocate. Hardcopy and eBook. ISBN 978-0-9768283-3-4 throwing yourself off the buildings (and its first case in Japan: 1926 (Taisho 15) from the Matsuya Ginza building. I realized that until that point, there were no high buildings that people can throw themselves off from besides temples and waterfalls, and that was the reason why waterfalls like Kegon was famous for suicides) + (reason why the famous apartment complex that people killed themselves where popular) As much as I enjoy Japanese cinema, then it is just not realistic to think that every single movie will be good. And "The Suicide Manual" (aka "Jisatsu manyuaru") was a massive swing and a miss. I only made it 35 minutes into the movie before I had to turn it off as I was risking suicide if I was to continue to be exposed to more of it. It was without a doubt one of the most boring and unappealing Japanese movies I have stumbled upon in a long, long time. At the end of the 80s, there was a trend of believing in the end of the world, and talking about dangerous topics, the famous bands performed songs about Chernobyl, the jokes coming out of kids’ mouths all had the taste of death, teenage girls prepared for the world war by seeking a mate. And we cheered for beliefs like “the emergence of the mighty”, “tomorrow may be the end of the world.” Final Exit on DVD by Derek Humphry - ERGO". www.finalexit.org. Archived from the original on 2020-11-25 . Retrieved 2022-05-14.

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Humphry, Derek (1991). Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying. ISBN 0-9606030-3-4. At last, everyone realized that there would be no time to show off their own ability, the 22nd century must arrive. (Of course, the 21st century is approaching, there won’t be any world war.) There will never be an end of the world. We stretched our arms into outer space, but it couldn’t bring us enough satisfaction. If we want more excitement, if we really want the world to come to its end, we have to do “something”. But at the same time by suggesting the ways to escape the world, it feels like the author is saying “now you know you’ve got an escape route. Why don’t you give your life another chance before trying these methods to kill yourselves?”. There’s a need for a book, which can help one to commit suicide, to take actual actions, but not just having the idea in mind. Books with such aims were once published ten years ago - “The Ways to Commit Suicide” is an example. However, the book was not well organized and is boring. We only need to know the ways to commit suicide, not any other unrelated things. In America, a scholar invented a machine, which allows “mercy killing” to be put into practice. And this book will be the only “suicide machine” in Japan, making use of words.It has been translated into 12 languages. [9] The original English language version is in its third edition. I forgot the other details (I had to return the book), but all the methods came with a simple diagram of painful ness, messiness, successfulness, etc.

In 2000, Derek Humphry recorded a VHS video version of the information in the book; [10] a DVD version [11] and a Kindle version [12] were released in 2006 and 2011, respectively. A 4th edition, 'Final Exit 2020' has been released as an Ebook. Suicide Book Stirring Controversy And Sales". Archived from the original on 2018-02-04 . Retrieved 2018-02-03. This book was a detailed and practical book about the ways to kill yourself, and not a book that suggests killing yourself (small difference, but a huge difference) Final Exit Network claims that approximately 750,000 copies have been sold in the United States and Canada and approximately 500,000 elsewhere. The book is banned in France. [7] Final Exit is Derek Humphry's third book on the subject of self-euthanasia; it was preceded by Jean's Way (1978) and The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia (1986). Joyce, Jaime. "Kill Me Now: The Troubled Life And Complicated Death Of Jana Van Voorhis". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21 . Retrieved 2018-02-05.

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I feel suicides are often viewed as a cowardly way to end one’s life (and sometimes a nuisance), but this book doesn’t belittle you for wanting to escape the pain in the world. skimmed through, my japanese isn’t perfect enough to read the whole thing (especially the section about medicines and chemicals), but yes this book is as detailed and specific and dark as the title would suggest, it is very literally a manual.

Books that leave a legacy - USATODAY.com". usatoday30.usatoday.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-14 . Retrieved 2014-10-07. Yukio Mishima once wrote the lines, “ordinary life is even more horrible than a war.” in his autobiography “Confession d’un masque”. We tolerated the nervousness caused by the terrifying ordinary life, in return for the ridiculous “calm and bright future.” We have to be careful throughout our life, trying in vain to avoid any mistakes. Speaking of this, I want to start introducing drug overdose. But to help you understand the question “Why do we need to commit suicide now?” better, and for other commercial reasons… I have to talk about some other things first. Find sources: "Suicide Manual"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)I’ve heard the title before, but I’ve never had a chance to actually read it until now. And I gave this book a try only because it came up in the conversation between my friend and I.