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Coronavirus: How worried should we be? Coronavirus outbreak Image caption The outbreak occurred in the city of Wuhan, south of Beijing

Suicide Forest

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15 Eerie Things About Japan's Suicide Forest Please Check Your Network Connection Northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji is the sprawling  13.5 square miles  of Aokigahara, a forest so thick with foliage that it's known as the Sea of Trees. But it's the Japanese landmark's horrific history that made the woods a fitting location for the spooky horror film  The Forest .  Untold visitors have chosen this place, notoriously called The Suicide Forest, as the setting for their final moments, walking in with no intention of ever walking back out. Here are a few of the terrible truths and scary stories that forged Aokigahara's morbid reputation. 1. AOKIGAHARA IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SUICIDE DESTINATIONS IN THE WORLD. Statistics on Aokigahara's suicide rates vary, in part because the forest is so lush that some corpses can go undiscovered for years or might be forever lost. However, some estimates claim as many as  100 people a year  have successfully killed themselves

Expecting too much

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We Expect Too Much From Our Romantic Partners -  Wax models of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have confetti thrown on them at Madame Tussauds. . Tall, dark, handsome, funny, kind, great with kids, six-figure salary, a harsh but fair critic of my creative output ... the list of things people want from their spouses and partners has grown substantially in recent decades. So argues Eli Finkel, a professor of social psychology at Northwestern University in his book, The All-or-Nothing Marriage . As Finkel explains, it’s no longer enough for a modern marriage to simply provide a second pair of strong hands to help tend the homestead, or even just a nice-enough person who happens to be from the same neighborhood. Instead, people are increasingly seeking self-actualization within their marriages, expecting their partner to be all things to them. Unfortunately, that only seems to