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>The tradition of lovers ending their lives together, called shinjū Lover suicides we're not a tradition.
by charcircuit 1mo ago
>The tradition of lovers ending their lives together, called shinjū
Lover suicides we're not a tradition.
- BigTTYGothGF 1mo agoWiki suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū
- charcircuit 1mo agoThe only instance of tradition on that page says it is contained within plays and literature. This is different than saying that the actual act itself, in real life, was a tradition.
- oliculipolicula 1mo agoThe reasonable thing to do is look up the ja.wiki Here's one citation (14-15 double suicides a year Taisho era in some fashionable district) https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14094/0100275627 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14094/0100275627 I agree that suicide ideation is not exactly prosocial, but I think being tolerant of misinformation is a worse look on HN?
- Alive-in-2025 1mo agoI never heard of it before today so know nothing about it. Wikipedia has an extensive discussion of it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinj%C5%AB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinj%C5%AB. Is this page false with bad references maybe, or was it just a literary tradition and not happening in the real world?
- charcircuit 1mo agoThere is a difference between something happening in the real world and it being a tradition.
- avadodin 1mo agoErm? You should be made aware of the fact that unspeakable horror, Japan is more awesome and actually great and traditional.
- empath75 1mo agoDouble suicides happen all the time around the world and are extensively documented in literature (Romeo and Juliet being the prototypical example). That doesn't mean it is a "tradition".