Irabu Found Dead - Suicide

[Bob Forsythe]

www.timesunion.com/sports/article/LA-coroner-Ex-Yankees-pitcher-Irabu-hung-self-1633712.php

This is sad but not all that unexpected given the Japanese cultural belief that suicide is an accepted way to die. Most every post-war Japanese novelist from Kawabata to Mishima committed Seppuku in one way or another.

=Bob

[Aztec89]

Wow! Really? This a Japaneese specific phenomenon? Was Kurt Cobain Japaneese?

I can't say I followed Irabu's career closely, after he dissed the Padres. But how Ironic, perhaps you could say "Zen", that he refused to pitch for a Southern California Major League team in the Padres, and finished his pro career pitching for something called the Long Beach Armada. What comes around, goes around.

Zen Master.

[Bob Forsythe]

Jul 30, 2011 18:49:17 GMT -8 Aztec89 said:

Wow! Really? This a Japaneese specific phenomenon? Was Kurt Cobain Japaneese?

I can't say I followed Irabu's career closely, after he dissed the Padres. But how Ironic, perhaps you could say "Zen", that he refused to pitch for a Southern California Major League team in the Padres, and finished his pro career pitching for something called the Long Beach Armada. What comes around, goes around.

Zen Master.

And of course because he refused to pitch for the Pads you don't care. And of course you missed my point - suicide is accepted in Japan far more than it is here.

=Bob