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Friday, May 12, 2006

Invented here

Speaking of suicides, the people of hing Kong has invented a novel way to commit suicide - charcoal burning. It's a form of carbon monoxide poisoning, and the HK people do it probably because most of them do not have a car.
What they usually do is rent a cottage in the outlying islands to do the deed. Because death in a home seriously affects its resale value. (Real estate agents are obligated to disclose the death)
Now when you go to buy bags of charcoal, they come with big labels: "life is precious, please refrain from suicides." Cottage owners will also refuse to rent out places to single people, especially people with coal.

HK has a soul-less, pure money culture, it is quite often that people kill themselves after losing a job, going bankrupt, or becoming "negative net-worth" due to real estate crashes. But then again, if you are in HK without money, you really are nothing. I can see so many graduates handing out flyers for money because they cannot find a job, things are getting better lately though.

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