Complete Suicide Manual ) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi.It was first published on July 4, 1993 and sold more than one million copies.
This 198 page book provides explicit descriptions and analysis on a wide range of suicide methods such as overdosing, hanging, jumping, and carbon monoxide poisoning. There is no preference shown for painless or dignified ways of ending ones life. The book provides matter-of-fact assessment of each method in terms of the pain it causes, effort of preparation required, the appearance of the body and lethality. Although he does rhetorically pose the question Why must one live Wataru simply lays out the methods of suicide one by one and then analyzes each of them in detail. Some prefectures designated the book as yugaitosho (book harmful to youth), which restricts the sale of books to minors, while some prefectures, such as Tokyo, decided against doing so. There are many suicides where the book was found along with the body, including several cases of the suicides of junior high school students. The book neither encourages nor discourages suicide, and as well does not tell those considering suicide to seek help, though wordings such as completely painless and marvelous experience are used to indicate that certain methods are less painful and more fatal than others. Moreover, the book shows that certain popular methods of suicide have very low success rates. For this reason, some argue that the book has made suicide attempts since its publication more fatal. Some attribute Japans high suicide rate not just to the number of people who attempt suicide but also to the fact that people utilise more fatal methods, 1 though to what extent the book has contributed to this trend is unknown. This second book somewhat helped shift the public attention to the various reasons some people commit suicide, and the controversy died down eventually. The same publisher, with a different author, published The Complete Manual of Disappearance (Kanzen Shisso Manyuaru) in 1994.
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