Suicide theme park?

[adamark]

Get said.

Is that correct? No. It isn't. How does a human have a need to survive? If he dies, isn't he just... dead? Isn't an innate need something like "in order to live, one must eat"?

It's pretty clear to me what Mirai meant. It doesn't do any good to get sarcastic just because he didn't clearly express the idea. What the idea looks like is that humans have an innate or instinctual drive to live/survive. THAT is accurate. However, humans are less instinctual and more cultural than ever before. Culture trumps instinct. You mentioned the code of the Bushido. That warrior culture valued honor more than life; it equipped its followers with the moral sanction to commit suicide for the sake of honor, but it didn't eliminate the instinct to survive.

If anything, i'd say that asian culture, having a large history with buddism, is far more prepared to accept in depth discussion about death... but here's the thing: they already do have such public discourse, on a level far higher than we in the west do, making them far more ready to accept such attractions compared to us. This explains why the proposal was made in the first place.

What do you mean by "public discourse" and how are you measuring the "west's" and "asian culture's"?

Maybe they are ready to accept suicide theme parks because it's fascinating and they want to explore why it's so prevalent but not because they are any more comfortable with it than westerners. Maybe they want to draw attention to it because it's an important social issue. Or maybe they just want to make money by making a sideshow like P.T. Barnum did.

There are plenty of gruesome tourist attractions in America. Have these elevated our public discourse? Do people consider their mortality more because of them or are the attractions just for amusement?