Three people were found dead in a parked car in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday, in what police believe was a joint suicide.
Police said the rental car was found in the storage yard of a building company at around 10:30 a.m. Kyodo News quoted police as saying the three people were a man and a woman in their late 40s or early 50s, and a woman in her 30s or early 40s.
The car windows were sealed and remnants of charcoal briquettes were found inside the car.
Police said relatives of one of the women had filed a missing persons report on Tuesday night after she failed to come home.
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Spitfire
So tragic.
RIP.
William Bjornson
Again. A man and two women...
602miko
Ohhh why why why?
Mr Kipling
I hope the rental car company doesn't lose out. Why don't they just do it at home in the bathroom?
Or better still find a solution to their temporary problems that doesn't involve their death and despair and sadness for their friends and family.
oyatoi
Wonder what happens to the rental. Fumigation, then back into the lot. Or, is the first up renter entitled to a discount?
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ジョージ
Assuming their problems are temporary - well, I guess they are temporary as in restricted to this lifetime - and they have friends or family (and these friends or family care or aren't the cause of their despair).
kurisupisu
They obviously had no hope about life in Japan and really it does look bleaker by the day…
Rakuraku
Severe depression is a biological illness that push people to do things that seems irrational for the others. Just sad they could not find help that could make them understand thanks to medical treatment and psychotherapy there is always hope and make them understand that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem as you rightly point out.
Personally i think that they deserve compassion rather than blame. I just hope that neither you or your loved ones will ever suffer from real depression.
Mr Kipling
Agreed, but they also shouldn't get a pass as they are also very much to blame for their own actions.
Instead of looking for help they looked for other terminally sad people to die with. Odd choice no?
Nayel
The pain that some people experience is real and shouldnt be ignored and their story does matter.
RIP
kaimycahl
@Nayel I agree, no matter what the deceased story may be we can't ignore it because I can bet all of them had one thing in common. People are in search of a better life what is a better life, it could mean better health, and a better financial situation. People handle things differently and when they get to a point where they can not cope with the ills in their mind they do just that. I say the cycle of life doesn't change it only revolves, so this can't be ignored because we will read about it again and again
The pain that some people experience is real and shouldnt be ignored and their story does matter.
RIP
falseflagsteve
I find this incredibly upsetting and ghastly. These poor souls have died and what could have driven them to believe this was the best action to take？
Awa no Gaijin
I don't know thier reasons for apparently committing suicide so cant have an opinion !
TokyoLiving
So tragic, don't do it people, there are more solutions in life, fight people, fight!!..