Suicide Locations: The Deeper Meaning behind the Tragedy Suicide is the act of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally. There are many intentions when it comes to suicide. One might want to punish someone by making them feel responsible, want to join a loved one that has died or don’t feel like they belong. When someone has the intention of killing themselves, there are several different methods. From most popular to least popular methods include firearms, hanging/suffocation, solid/liquid poison, gas poison and jumping from high places. All of these different ways have a deeper meaning. Every suicide ever planned has the intention of leaving behind a message. The suicide location is one of these. The location the suicidal person chooses to end their life at is an important factor in the suicide attempt. In the novel “A Long Way Down”, an unexpected group of people meet on New Year's Eve on the roof of the popular suicide spot Topper's House, where each one has the intention of ending their lives. If it were not for the location this group of people chose to potentially end their life, they would have never been able to save themselves. There are three types of suicidal, those who attempt but don’t want to die, those that are undecided and those who attempt and want to die. Those that don’t want to die make it a red light for those close to him/her. Those who are undecided let others know their intentions and leave the rest to them to interfere. If nothing is done, then it must be fate. If they’re barred then life must be worthwhile. Those that want to die are usually affected by depression or are bipolar and are left untreated. Depression isn’t about being sad. It’s like a darkness that takes over someone and fills them. It drains everything emotional in a person. It takes everything, and leaves one feeling hollow and numb. Like nothing. It’s not sadness, it’s not anger, it’s hopelessness. They may feel like there is no hope left. This is the most dangerous type of suicidal because it can be easily prevented by prescribing the adequate medication or counseling. Sometimes it only takes one to person to save a life. One of the world’s top suicide locations is the Aokigahara Forest in Japan. Aokigahara is also known as the Sea of Trees. It is a forest that lies at the base of Mount Fuji. The caverns found in this forest are rocky and ice-covered, even during the summer. It is an old forest reportedly haunted by many legends of ghosts and goblins, which add to its sinister reputation. Aokigahara has been suspected to have begun its death toll after the novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) in 1960. At the end of this novel, it ends with two lovers committing suicide in the Aokigahara forest. People who enter this