Asia
- Mount Mihara, Japan — An active volcano on Izu Ōshima in Tokyo Bay. After Kiyoko Matsumoto jumped into the crater in 1933, media reports fanned hundreds of copycats by 1936, when access was restricted.
- Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, Wuhan, China – 24.7 suicides per year
- Pigeons' Rock, Beirut, Lebanon
- Bedok Reservoir, Singapore – over 10 suicides
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Famous quotes containing the word asia:
“Incarnate devil in a talking snake,
The central plains of Asia in his garden,
In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)