On the afternoon of April 4, a tragedy occurred in the Tianmen Mountain View Area of Zhangjiajie, where three men and a woman committed suicide by jumping over the safety fence on the glass plank road on the west line of the scenic area. The three men had successfully jumped, and although a woman was stopped, she also died from taking medicine beforehand. Four young and living lives disappeared in this way, and those who heard it could not help but lament with regret.
The place of suicide was clearly carefully chosen by them. Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain is a famous scenic spot in mainland China, where the mountain peaks are steep, the walls stand thousands of battles, and the glass plank road hangs on the west line of the top of Tianmen Mountain, 60m long, and the highest point is 1430m above sea level. Standing on the glass boardwalk, looking down, the depth is bottomless, frightening, surrounded by clouds and mist, like a fairyland.
He also had a romantic name called Sky Road, and perhaps they thought that jumping off, even if they could not land in heaven, would melt into the clouds. Such an environment is still attractive to suicide people.
There is another place in China that has a similar nature, that is, the cliff at the top of Mount Emei. Standing on the golden top of Emei Mountain, looking down, you can see the vast sea of clouds, boundless, sometimes rolling waves, sometimes calm and calm, endless changes, mysterious. Legend has it that those who become immortals are tempted by the sea of clouds, and they can give up their flesh and mortal fetus with a single leap.
This place also has one of the highest suicide rates in the country, and according to incomplete statistics, dozens of people often jump here every year.
There are also many such "suicide holy places" abroad. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous one. Since the bridge was completed in 1937, more than 1,600 people have committed suicide here. Because of the strong impact of the ocean currents around San Francisco Bay, the suicide has been pushed into the sea by the tide before people rescue, so jumping is often without bones.
The Aokigahara-Tree Sea of Japan. Located at the foot of Mt. Fuji, the two protagonists of Matsumoto Kiyobari's novel "Sea of Trees" chose to commit suicide here. After the novel was published, it attracted many misanthropic people to die here. The dark forest here, coupled with the role of underground magnetite, the compass will fail here, causing many people to lose their way, so the body is difficult to find, resulting in suicide people flocking, the beautiful forest has become a place of exposure. Since the 50s of the last century, it is said that more than 500 people have died their lives in Aokigahara.
And the Eiffel Tower in France, the Nyaragua Falls in North America and so on...
These places have common characteristics, the scenery is beautiful, the momentum is magnificent, climbing here, lamenting the smallness of life, the unloveable life, so that people who have the intention to kill themselves have an uncontrollable urge to jump.
Freud believed that man has an innate instinct to die. Under anxiety, wanting to destroy your messy life and return to the state before life, just like the restart of the computer, this is how the suicidal urge comes.
But the computer can be restarted, but the life is only once. Suicide not only destroys the life of the suicidal person himself, brings untold pain to his loved ones, but also leaves a deep scar on society.
In modern society, due to the accelerated pace of life and the increase in life pressure, the suicide rate has a tendency to increase with social development.
The rise of the Internet and social software has brought a new way to suicide.
Some pessimists have organized WeChat groups to discuss ways and locations of suicide. In this way, scenic spots such as Zhangjiajie and Emeishan have become "Internet celebrities" suicide places.
The four young people who jumped off the cliff in Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie this time, from different places, had never known each other before, and the reason why they were able to get together was seriously suspected by many netizens because of the promotion of suicide groups.
Suicide requires a lot of courage, dead or alive, often just a thought. Therefore, curbing suicidal impulses and avoiding becoming "Internet celebrities" suicide places may become the responsibility of these scenic spots.
So what to do? After this suicide, some people suggested closing the glass boardwalk of Tianmen Mountain to prevent people from jumping off the cliff again.
Closing the scenic spot for fear of suicide is a typical waste of food due to choking, which naturally causes opposition and ridicule from netizens. This problem seems to be difficult to solve.
Lao Mo here provides an idea, inspired by Tao Xingzhi's story.
Yanziji near Nanjing, cloud cliffs near the river, huge rocks abrupt, the big river is choppy, jumping off can hardly survive, so it has a fatal temptation for suicide. During the Republican period, many people traveled thousands of miles to "famous" and jumped into the river to commit suicide.
At that time, Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator in the mainland, came here to establish a normal school, and once he chatted with the rickshaw driver, who talked about the tragic things he encountered, and took a female student to Yanzi Isotou in the morning, saying that it was not easy for the coachmen to support their families, and cried bitterly, and gave a lot of more car money when parting. He felt that this girl was a kind and soft-hearted person, because this girl gave too much money, and he wanted to wait for her to come down and then pull her back, but there was no one for a long time. The next day, the news of the salvage of a young woman's corpse in the river came out, and the coachman saw that it was the girl who took his car to give more money, and he was not only very sad in his heart.
After Tao Xingzhi learned of this, he found two wooden tablets to stand on Yanziji, and wrote on the left: "Think about it", and write a line of small characters below: "Life is a big thing, treat it as a big thing, you are rich and strong, you have a country to save, and a people to love, how can you take your life?" On the right, it reads: "You must not die", and there is a small print below: "Death is heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hongmao, instead of throwing into the river and dying, how can it be like engaging in rural education and dying for China's 340,000 compatriots!" "After that, the number of people who died in the swallow head really decreased a lot. Later, these words were engraved on the stone tablet, and it was these plain-looking words that saved countless people who came here to seek liberation.
Of course, setting up archways in these scenic spots and writing words of exhortation and warning can only prevent scenic spots from becoming "Internet celebrities" suicide places. To completely curb suicide, a cure is needed.