There's an awesome grassroots initiative taking place to prevent suicides at the base of Mt. Fuji.
Every year, 50-100 dead bodies are found in the Sea of Trees, a forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji. So this year, a community group called Cre Sara Hirenkyo is taking this problem into its own hands by erecting large signs with motivational messages geared to make people think twice about taking their own lives.
The one pictured here says:
There's always a solution to debt. I, too, was once saved from it. Please talk to somebody first.
And there's a phone number and the name of the organization at the bottom.
The signs were put up in January and then taken down in March by park authorities who claimed that the group did this without permission. But during the fifty-some days that the signs were up, 10 suicidal people called in for consultations--meaning, obviously, that they had changed their minds, at least for the time being. So now they're lobbying to get those signs back up again.
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