The day before the Qingming Festival in 2023, April 4 is a sad day for the tourist mecca Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area.
Four young men and women from different regions, four young descendants who have never been masked, met on the glass boardwalk of Tianmen Mountain through the Internet, jumped into the abyss, ended their young lives, and left this world in a hurry. One of the beautiful girls was intercepted, and finally because she had taken poison before jumping off a cliff, she was able to save her life.
Group suicide through the Internet, which is an extremely rare phenomenon, has set a precedent for group suicide.
According to statistics, about 250,000 people die by suicide every year in the mainland, and the number of suicide attempts is about 2 million. Suicide has become the fifth leading cause of death on the mainland, with as many as 100,000 young men and women committing suicide.
The pressure of life in modern society has increased, the distance between the rich and the poor has widened, people living in poverty, and there are people who have no way to commit suicide.
With the acceleration of the pace of life, the competition in the industry has intensified. Depression is increasing year by year, emotional disputes, seeing through red dust and other mental illness patients are living in a self-liberating way.
Looking at the background of the four young people's lives, they are all rural people and belong to the lowest level of society.
Chen Ting: The only woman among the four, 23 years old, from Neijiang, Sichuan, did not graduate from junior high school, her father suffered from cancer, went out to work at the age of 16, and rarely returned home.
Peng Zhijun, 33, a native of Hebei, did not graduate from junior high school, and his mother died four years ago.
Zhang Cairui, 23 years old, Fujian, graduated from junior high school. Parents divorced.
Liu Zhiyong, 34 years old, from Henan, his mother died and his father suffered a stroke. At the age of 16 or 7, he went out to work, divorced after marriage, and the children were awarded to his ex-wife.
They all have common characteristics: 1. Growing up in the countryside, 2. The original family is poor, the family is not perfect, 3. The education level is not high, and 4. They rarely contact their families.
Therefore, these common characteristics cause their personality and mental instability. Poor for life, distressed for poverty. In contemplation, selfishness, irresponsibility, and liberation became their only option.
Through the Internet, they met in Tianmen Mountain, their suicidal heart was dead, they all took poison before jumping off the cliff, and wrote the same suicide note that was not responsible for society and others.
I rudely imagined that they all committed suicide due to poverty and stressful lives. If their family had money, it would not have been the result.
In fact, suicide requires a lot of courage. In life, the rich have the troubles of the rich, and the poor have the sufferings of the poor. Suicide due to poverty is much more common than other suicides such as incurable diseases and emotional entanglements.
This is an act of personal thinking that has not been solved by successive dynasties.
There is a saying that "it is better to die than to live". It is true that there are more people who live than they want to die.
The society and relevant institutions are trying to find ways to solve the confusion, and there are many groups and individuals in the living society who are helping.
Cherishing life, cherishing oneself, being responsible for oneself, being responsible for one's family, and being responsible for society should be the necessary conscience of every living person. Pray for those who have passed away and bless them with a healthy life!