Honestly I've studied japanese a bit, and I've heard of the history of the forest a bit as well. Supposingly it gained attraction as a suicide site thanks to a japanese novelist by the name of Seicho Matsumoto. Shinto is the major religion of japan not Buddhism, and that's what I would attribute the popularity of the site as a death point to myself. My point still stands. Kill yourself in a bathtub where there's a drain and someone can come in and pick up your dead body and transport ot to all the right places yadayada. No real outdoorsman wants to find that kind of shit, and high levels of carbon decay in an are can taint and disrupt the natural ecosystem. 0_0