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Detergent Suicide - A Japanese girl commited suicide today by mixing detergent with cleanser, and act that also affected neighbors because of the released fumes in her apartment house. None of the neighbours were seriously sick although 10 were sent to the hospital.¹

Photo: Firefighters are seen around The Peninsula Tokyo hotel where a man allegedly killed himself by gassing, in downtown Tokyo, Friday, April 25, 2008. In a surging wave of suicides in Japan, at least three people have killed themselves by inhaling fumes from detergent mixed with other chemicals, reportedly bringing the total number of such deaths to nearly 50 this month.²

Japanese girl killed herself by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, releasing fumes that also sickened 90 people in her apartment house. In Tokyo Japan, A 14 year old girl committed suicide by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, which released harmful hydrogen sulfide gas into the air, also sickening 90 people who lived in her apartment house.³

In Tokyo Japan, A 14 year old girl committed suicide by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, which released harmful hydrogen sulfide gas into the air, also sickening 90 people who lived in her apartment house. The detergent suicide has been related to a string of related suicides that seem to be inspired by a list of suicide encouraging websites.⁴