The Aokigahara forest and fatality seem to go historically hand in hand in this unique setting on the foothills of Mount Fuji.It is not our responsibility to judge why a person chooses suicide in response to the problems of life, but that is why we continue to see with sadness and dismay how the Aokigahara forest has become, over the years, a kind of sinister pilgrimage for every wounded soul.person who sees no solution to the pain of his life and simply chooses a rope and any tree from Aokigahara where to end his existence forever.Terrible, no doubt.Over time, this place has gained fame of being the forest of suicides.
Surely, because of this sinister fame, you already knew this place a bit.But today in Mysterious , we want to delve a little deeper into its history.The one that is not so well known… are you with us?
Aokigahara.The legends of bo sque of the suicides
The name of Aokigahara already appeared in numerous poems in antiquity.Known as « the sea of trees », this place did not cease to have a certain beauty, a millenary mysticism where Mount Fuji has always been its ruler, its expectant watchman, who gave life to him through several eruptions that finally originated this 35 square km forest.
In all those old poems there was talk of "presences." Demonic beings who lived in the shadows.In the bark of trees.Arrived the feudal era, the legend gave way to a horrendous reality.Famine, misery and despair caused many children and elders to be abandoned there to their fate.Death received them in the forest with open arms.No one survives in Aokigahara.It was common to find already at that time the bodies of many people who had died of starvation or disease.A hard re A life that did nothing but give more legend shine , offer more substratum to a forest that, it seems, was always inhabited by that trail of the strange and the evil.
The Aokigahara Forest as a place of suicide
When the 60s arrived, a twist was even more inconceivable to the Aokigahara forest.It was the place where many Japanese chose to go to take their own lives.But, Why razon?
This is a question that cries again and again in our mind, although the reasons seem to have a singular origin at the same time that I practice.Aokigahara remains very near Tokyo .It's just a simple walk where you finally reach a quiet stage, a serene place to put an end to the painful rumor of life.
Do you want Know another reason? Suicide in Aokigahara is free .Yes it is.If you choose, for example, to do it in Tokyo by pulling you to the train tracks or even in your own garage or in the bathtub, you will incur high expenses with those that your own family will have to carry.Instead, doing it in a forest is free.
A rugged reality that has made the number of bodies found in Aokigahara very high in the last 40 years.An example? In 2002 there were 78 bodies found.
Stroll through the Aokigahara Forest
If you ever risk Entering this forest, as you progress through its thickness, two things would surprise you.
The first is the atmosphere that is breathed there. Oppressive and uncomfortable.It is said that that sensation is due to the magnetic fields that are concentrated there.Who knows, but the sensation is patent and uncomfortable.
The second thing that will get your attention is the amount of garbage distributed on the ground.more than garbage, they are actually personal effects : slippers, wallets, photographs...belongings of all those who chose to end their life in the forest.
Today there are 300 operators working in Aokigahara.Is it working? Patrol the forest every day to collect possible bodies that hang from the tree branches and prevent further suicides.Hence, much of the forest is surrounded by numerous posters written in Japanese and English with the following words:
"Your life It is valuable and has been given to you by your parents.Please, think of them, your brothers and children.Please seek help and do not go through this place alone.”
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