On April 4, 2023, three men and one woman committed mass suicide in Zhangjiajie. After police investigation, it was found that these four people committed suicide together after meeting on the Internet.
The case of "Zhangjiajie collective suicide" has not yet been clearly investigated, and 18 days later, in the Sichuan Swan Forest Farm, three more people committed suicide by taking poison. In just 18 days, 7 people met to commit mass suicide, what is the truth behind it?
Meet online, meet and jump off a cliff
On April 4 this year, four tourists entered the Tianmen Mountain View Area of Zhangjiajie. Unlike other tourists, they come here to commit suicide. After the four people chose the suicide location in the scenic area, they took out the poison in their backpacks, swallowed it, and jumped off the cliff.
The act of the four shocked nearby tourists. One tourist reacted quickly and grabbed one of the girls and stopped her from jumping off a cliff. Unfortunately, she had already taken the poison and died soon after.
Tourists immediately pulled out their mobile phones to call the police. After receiving the alarm call, the police and scenic area staff rushed to the scene as soon as possible. They immediately launched an investigation into the identities of the four cliff jumpers. Because the scenic spot was entered by buying tickets with real-name authentication, the identities of the four people were quickly investigated.
The oldest of the four is only 34 years old, and the youngest is only 23 years old. They are from Henan, Hebei, Fujian and Sichuan. Why would four people who have no intersection at all meet and commit suicide together? The police immediately investigated the family and social situation of the four deceased.
The investigation found that the families of the four deceased were living in difficult circumstances and complicated circumstances. And the four also met through a group called "About the Dead". The group is full of negative information, and the members are all people who have thoughts of suicide.
The chat content in the group, seemingly empathizing with people who have thoughts of suicide, is actually obliterating their last hope. The word "death" on the screen of the group is urging the group members to put suicide into action.
The thought of suicide of the four was very serious, so someone took the lead to form a group and agreed to commit suicide together. And the leader of the group was also one of the four deceased.
As for why they committed suicide, perhaps the family burden was too heavy to bear, so they chose to escape reality.
All four left suicide notes, which all said that their suicides were voluntary and had nothing to do with anyone else. Maybe they chose to commit suicide in the scenic area, but also hoped to see the beauty of the world before leaving!
The truth behind the frequent cases of mass suicide
The causes of death of the four deceased have been investigated by the police. But what happened to the "covenant death group" that induced four people to commit suicide? Police are still investigating. But before the results of the investigation of this matter, 3 more people committed suicide.
On April 22, staff from the Sichuan Swan Forest Farm found three bodies deep in the forest. After receiving the report, the police department went to investigate.
After investigation, the three committed suicide on the afternoon of April 20 at the forest farm. And the three of them are also completely uncommunicative, and their common feature is that their lives are too burdensome.
Similar to the "Zhangjiajie cliff jumping incident", the three also came from different places and agreed to commit suicide together. After the police follow-up investigation, it was found that the three people also met in a "death group". 7 people committed suicide en masse, all of which revealed the behavior of "online death". So, who exactly established this "covenant death group"?
In fact, as early as 2010, the "covenant death group" appeared. In order to prevent someone from "escaping" before death, the group leader will also arrange a "strong-willed" death seeker for each "small group of deaths" in order to achieve the effect of fueling the situation.
The group leader will even provide the "death seeker" with the method and place of death. The behavior of the group owner instigating others to commit suicide, although it did not directly kill, but there was already an act of depriving others of their lives, suspected of intentional homicide.
Don't think that there are very few suicidal people, in fact, this group is far stronger than we think. According to statistics, one in every five middle school students on the mainland has suicidal thoughts. And people with suicidal thoughts will look for "similar people" on the Internet to seek comfort: it turns out that not only I have suicidal thoughts, but you also have them.
They will look for the so-called warmth in their kind. And the "covenant death group" is their last straw. It is the straw that overwhelms their hope of life, and it is the nightmare of the parents who bind them. Therefore, parents should pay more attention to the mental health of their children and do not put too much pressure on their children.
What is the purpose of the group leader
Hu Ming was also persecuted by the "covenant death group". In 2018, after Hu Ming's son left a suicide note, he committed suicide by burning charcoal along with several others. The suicide note reads: The suicide was of my own free will and has nothing to do with anyone else. In Hu Ming's eyes, his son has a cheerful personality, how could he suddenly commit suicide? So Hu Ming began to log in to his son's social account to find the truth about his son's suicide.
When Hu Ming logged in to his son's QQ, a group chat caught Hu Ming's attention. As soon as Hu Ming entered the group, someone asked: "You are not dead yet?" Another asked, "Brother, covenant death?" These words made Hu Ming instantly creepy. What group did the son add?
Going up to the chat record, Hu Ming was even more terrified. The group is full of suicide videos, accompanied by extremely uncomfortable music. Hu Ming understood that his son chose to commit suicide because of the influence of the information in the group. If someone had pulled his son at that time, would the result have been different?
Most of the members of the group are children of the same age as their sons, who suffer from academic or family or emotional torture, and their chats are often full of "death intentions".
But Hu Ming understands that these children talk about "death", but they have never lost hope of life. They sent out "death" one after another, all of which were signals for help from the outside world.
So Hu Ming began to add these suicidal people, comforting and encouraging them to continue living with words. Many people, with Hu Ming's relief, chose to continue their lives and quit the group chat.
Hu Ming found that people in the group who persuaded others to commit suicide often had no suicidal intentions. But what is their purpose in doing this? So he added the QQ of one of them and asked why.
But he got the answer "I am happy to see others commit suicide", which made Hu Ming very angry. But Hu Ming will not give up on saving those who are suicidal, and he is still working hard to achieve it.
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In the face of those who have soft intentions, we need to comfort them and let them ignite hope for life. We also need to pay attention to the mental health of our families, even if we solve their problems. I am not afraid of death, what are you afraid of? Let us join hands to fight against online black hands, so that more people with thoughts of suicide have the courage to face life.