- •Contents
- •Illinois man claims largest known diamond 4
- •Infidelity epidemic sweeping cheating britain 35
- •25 Easy ways to knock years off your body 52
- •Is Your Dream Job Really Out There? 74
- •Illinois man claims largest known diamond
- •Why we're slaves to the latest fashion fads
- •World’s most beautiful girls live in Stockholm, Sweden
- •Homeless billionaire gives away his 3-billion-dollar fortune
- •Why do foreign tourists hate Russians on holidays?
- •Chinese prepare to live in hell for 2008 Summer Olympics
- •Arctic region likely to become the center of World War III
- •Five terrible atrocities against women around the world
- •Slavery continues to prosper worldwide
- •Stop the poverty to stop the terrorism
- •Questions and Tasks:
- •Air rage caused by oxygen deprivation
- •Questions and Tasks:
- •Japan still unable to cut national suicide rate with over 33,000 deaths a year
- •Questions and Tasks:
- •Children do imitate violence they see on tv
- •Mum to mum special: We must beat the bullies
- •What to do if your child's a bully
- •Teens’ problems: Curfew
- •Looking for love on dating websites has its own hidden dangers
- •Best of mates
- •Infidelity epidemic sweeping cheating britain
- •Brothers and sisters are doing it for themselves
- •Will this man make you happy?
- •Women who dislike football are stupid
- •Pet therapy wins more popularity whereas Russia uses only leeches
- •25 Easy ways to knock years off your body
- •Top 5 scientists killed by their experiments
- •Humans may eventually conquer ocean world after David Blaine’s underwater stunt
- •Dolphins used to look like humans and lived in Atlantis
- •So .. Is there a god?
- •Legends about vampires and werewolves still live today
- •The Nostradamus prophecies popular in every century
- •Rambo's hardest mission .. Saving his 3 girls from perils of showbiz
- •Is Your Dream Job Really Out There?
- •Fed up with your job? ..Get a new one!
- •No ifs... No butts: mp's vote for total smoking ban
- •World on drugs
- •Truth and lies about alcoholism
Questions and Tasks:
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What is air rage? How do you understand it?
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Do you think only mentally unstable people have fits of air rage?
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What punishment do such people deserve?
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How should flight attendants or ground staff behave in this case?
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What tips you can give passengers to avoid air rage?
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Japan still unable to cut national suicide rate with over 33,000 deaths a year
Depressions, ailments and debts are three major problems that push people to committing suicide in Japan. The largest number of suicides occurs among Japanese men over 40. More than 33,000 people committed suicide in the land of the rising sun in 2007, which was 2.9 percent higher than in 2006.
Japan has been having a problem with decreasing the national suicide rate for ten years in a row. The rate still remains above the level of 30,000 deaths. A half of self-murderers committed suicide in a state of depression, because of serious illnesses or large debts. The number of such people was the largest in Yamanashi Prefecture, which had the rate of 39 suicides per 100,000 people. Japanese men commit suicides more frequently than Japanese women - 71 percent, many of them are unemployed – 57.4 percent. About 24,000 of self-murderers were over 40.
The Cabinet of Minister of Japan officially undertook to cut the suicide rate by 2016 by more than 20 percent (6,000 people). The land of the rising sun leaves the majority of industrially developed countries behind in terms of the number of suicides as opposed to the population size.
The predominant view of modern medicine is that suicide is a mental health concern, associated with psychological factors such as the difficulty of coping with depression, inescapable suffering or fear, or other mental disorders and pressures. Suicide is sometimes interpreted in this framework as a "cry for help" and attention, or to express despair and the wish to escape, rather than a genuine intent to die. Most people who attempt suicide do not complete suicide on a first attempt; those who later gain a history of repetitions are significantly more at risk of eventual completion.
Studies show a high incidence of psychiatric disorders in suicide victims at the time of their death with the total figure ranging from 98% to 87.3% with mood disorders and substance abuse being the two most common. In schizophrenia suicide can be triggered by either the depression that is common with this disorder, or in response to command auditory hallucinations. Suicide among people suffering from bipolar disorder is often an impulse, which is due to the sufferer's extreme mood swings (one of the main symptoms of bipolar disorder), or also possibly an outcome of delusions occurring during an episode of mania or psychotic depression. Severe depression is considered a terminal illness due to the likelihood of suicide when left untreated.
National suicide rates sometimes tend to remain stable. For example, the 1975 rates for Australia, Denmark, England, France, Norway, and Switzerland were within 3.0 per 100,000 of population from the 1875 rates. The rates in 1910–14 and in 1960 differed less than 2.5 per 100,000 of the population in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, England and Wales, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
National suicide rates, apparently universally, show a long-term upward trend. This trend has been well-documented in European countries. The trend for national suicide rates to rise slowly over time might be an indirect result of the gradual reduction in deaths from other causes, i.e. falling death rates from causes other than suicide uncover a previously hidden predisposition towards suicide. There may also be an explanation in the reduced stigma attached to survivors as suicide is no longer considered a crime or a sin. This may allow coroners to record more suicides as such and so increase stats.
People who commit suicide may not always be suffering from depression or despair. Some people may kill themselves for the purpose of experiencing life after death, or have a different existential, religious or philosophical motive. This points out that views of suicide are individually and culturally subjective.
In the Warring States Period and the Edo period of Japan, samurai who disgraced their honor chose to end their own lives by seppuku, a method in which the samurai takes a sword and slices into his abdomen, causing a fatal injury. The cut is usually performed diagonally from the top corner of the samurai's writing hand, and has long been considered an honorable form of death (even when done to punish dishonor). Though such a wound would be fatal, seppuku was not always technically suicide, as the samurai's assistant (the kaishaku) would usually stand by to cut short any suffering by quickly administering a fatal cut to the back of the neck (just short of decapitation), sometimes as soon as the first tiny incision into the abdomen was made.