Korea's suicide rate remains higher than OECD average

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Article: Former pro gamer confesses match fixing scandal + attempted suicide

Source: Yonhap News via Nate

He jumped from a 12 floor building shortly after posting a will and confessing to being a part of a team involved in the match fixing of League of Legends. He was unsuccessful in his suicide attempt and survived with injuries and broken bones and is able to hear and talk.

1. [+604, -6] If he survived a 12 floor fall, he was meant to live. I hope he recovers and spends the rest of his life happy.

2. [+595, -18] Seeing as how he survived a 12 floor fall, the sky seems to have saved him for confessing all of that. I hope he works hard to live... Don't think that ending your life is ever the answer. It only leaves a wound that everyone around you must carry with them for the rest of their lives.

3. [+534, -8] So fortunate that he's alive, especially since he's only living with his older sister. Don't drive a nail into her heart. I hope he lives with a new take on life and finds strength.

4. [+55, -0] The director No Dae Chul put together a team for toto and lied to them saying he has sponsors when he didn't. He purposely found players in financially difficult positions and threatened them to lose games, promising them money so that they'd listen to him. To the team AHQ, he lied to them asking if he could use their team name and said that he'd get the funds from the father of the player because he's a wealthy man when in reality, the player's father left home a long time ago because of financial difficulty. This really makes my blood turn. The director No Dae Chul deserves a thousand years of punishment. He's not even human.

5. [+31, -0] It means he has a purpose in this world if he survived a 12 floor fall. Please realize the preciousness of your life and don't do that again...

6. [+25, -0] He uploaded the post at 5:13 am, said he'd commit suicide 5 minutes later, and was discovered at 5:56 am. To think that he was laying there for 30~40 minutes still alive and in pain... sigh.

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Article: [Premium Report] Korea's suicide rate still remains higher than OECD average

Source: Donga Ilbo via Nate

Article talks about signs people give before they commit suicide and how even close family members gloss over them or don't notice. 52 out of 60 (86.7%) had given some sign before ending their life. 46% of the families didn't notice and 38.5% of the families noticed but didn't do anything about it.

#1. A family noticed that his 15 year old son, normally full of aegyo, stopped talking three months before his suicide. A month prior, he had complained that he couldn't see, but found nothing wrong when taken to an optometrist. Two weeks before, he kept asking his father when he was leaving for his business trip. As worries grew, the son brought over a nail clipper and made his final request of asking to have his nails cut. A week later, the son hung himself to death while his father was away on his business trip. It was found that he was a victim of school violence.

#2. Husband, 51 years old, often complained to his wife, 46 years old, of chest pains, despite find nothing wrong at the hospital. One day, he randomly asked, "Do you think I can live long?" Unemployed, he usually never had the dishes done by the time his wife came home from work except one day when he had them all washed clean. He had also called her four times that day, which was out of the ordinary. The following day, he even drove his wife to work. A few hours later, he commit suicide.

#3 Three days before 19 year old 'Han' commit suicide, she called her dad asking, "What should I do?" and "I don't know".

# 33 year old Kim was known by his family for being logical with his words but a month before he commit suicide, he began sending texts impossible to understand. He would often ramble incoherently in phone calls, and his brothers eventually blocked his number from their phones.

# One night, 40 something year old 'Lee' was watching TV with her husband and their two year old son when she heard him say to their son while watching a show on paragliders, "Hey, that looks fun. You're going to get to ride that soon." Two weeks later, the husband jumped off their apartment's 15th floor with their son in his arms while the wife was out.

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1. [+185, -3] The first incident is so sad ㅜㅜ

2. [+98, -3] None of us will ever understand the complex feelings someone goes through. As the article shows, even close family members don't catch on to it... I often see comments of people putting down those who choose to commit suicide and I recognize that suicide is never the answer but I don't think any of us have any right to say anything about the deceased.

3. [+93, -4] The paraglider incident gave me goose bumps..

4. [+23, -3] Fools who say "if you have the bravery to commit suicide, you have the bravery to overcome anything in life" clearly don't understand anything about the actual feelings of people suffering from feelings of suicide. People do not commit suicide with bravery but with despair. Don't act like you know anything about what they're going through unless you've psychologically hit rock bottom.

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