Some people kinda joke that when you buy an iphone you are supporting suicide. You are not directly supporting it but this matter is a matter that Iphone company needs to deal with and not just put up nets to catch them. Apparently the company is making the employees sign a contract where they have to work 60 hours a week and they live in the dorms right next door. Obviously the employees could have not signed the contract and worked elsewhere but not sure of the whole story over there. Since 2007 there ha been 17 suicides off the two buildings so they put up the netting and the suicides have decreased.
The nets went up in May, after the 11th jumper in less than a year died here. They carried a message: You can throw yourself off any building you like, as long as it isn’t one of these. And they seem to have worked. Since they were installed, the suicide rate has slowed to a trickle.
This is at least getting it out there and very sad for the workers that thought this was a better option than anything else.
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