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wyager on Oct 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Child suicides in Japan hit record high

I’ve heard that Japan will classify murder-suicide deaths as suicide deaths, because their word for “suicide” actually has a slightly different denotation.

naniwaduni on Oct 16, 2021 | [–]

Are murder-suicides not classed as suicides outside of Japan?

wyager on Oct 16, 2021 | | [–]

The people who get killed are not counted as suicide deaths in most countries.

gfody on Oct 14, 2021 | [–]

similarly how eskimos have a bunch of words for "snow", and new yorkers have a bunch of words for "pizza", japanese have a bunch of words for "suicide"

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