One evening he made his way into a New York club where his old friend Dizzy Gillespie sat listening to the band. Parker was rumbled, overweight, disoriented. ‘Why don’t you save me, Diz?’ he said over and over again. ‘Why don’t you save me?’ I didn’t know what to do, Gillespie remembered. I just didn’t know what to say. Parker stumbled back out on to the street. Ken Burns, Jazz: The Gift 1949-1955, PBS 2001
In 2015 there were 24,025 documented suicides in Japan, almost 70 people per day. One of the most popular suicide destinations is Tojinbo Cliffs in Fukui Prefecture. Yung Chang, Gatekeeper, 2016
Man: Well, I’m off.
Wife: Have a good day. ibid.
‘When I first started in 2004, a lot of people thought what I was doing was crazy. They said, Let sleeping dogs lie. How do you expect to save someone if they’re already doomed? They said, Are you stupid?’ ibid. hero
Tojinbo Nonprofit Organisation Support Centre: ‘Let’s meet again but not on the cliffs, OK? ha-ha.’ ibid.
‘About 20 to 30 people were killing themselves in Tonjinbo every year. The community were capitalizing on that. They were exploiting it to attract tourists from across Japan. They were using it as advertising.’ ibid.
‘The success rate for jumpers is 70%.’ ibid. boat tourist trip dude
‘My parents killed themselves when I was in eighth grade. My father in January and my mother in October. When I see people standing on the cliffs, it feels like I’m looking at myself … I feel like I have to save them.’ ibid. lady
‘It’s happened here a few times: parents have jumped with their kids … Someone jumped with a child on their back and a baby in their arms. And there was a murder case when they dumped the body to fake a suicide.’ ibid. hero
‘I have about 20 patrol staff who work when they can.’ ibid.
Daily Patrol Log. ibid.
‘Their cries, their wishes, their hopes. I feel a sense of duty towards them. It’s a responsibility that comes with being born into this world.’ ibid.
Over the last 12 years, Yukio Shige and his team of volunteers have saved 550 people. ibid. caption
Eve: Why did I come here?
Villanelle: Because you wanted to save me. And you did. Killing Eve s2e8: You’re Mine, BBC 2019
Like she was saving her? The Sinner s1e1: Cora, rozzer to husband, Netflix 2017
Have negative interest rates in the UK really moved closer? The Bank of England’s instruction to commercial banks to prepare for a negative cost of borrowing is not all it seems … The headline from the Bank of England’s latest report released on Thursday is that ‘negative interest rates have come a step closer for the UK economy’.
Commercial banks have been instructed to ‘commence preparations’ for the official cost of borrowing to go into reverse – and to be in a position to process negative rates, set by the UK’s central bank, in their own internal computer systems.
From that perspective this is a significant day in UK monetary policy history and for a country which has never seen a negative cost of borrowing imposed since the Bank of England was founded in 1694. Independent online article Ben Chu February 2021