Talk:Shoji Kubodera/@comment-73.188.62.22-20140802020241/@comment-397235-20140817224151

And of all the ways you can kill yourself, why do it that way? I mean, they don't have guns in Japan, but hang yourself or something.

In real life, people publicly commit suicide for attention, as messed up as that sounds. Basically, they feel like no one ever noticed them while they were alive, so they decide to make their death as memorable as possible.

I can't quite see his actions as that, though, since he obviously wasn't lacking for attention (he has thirty plus people who see him every day). Honestly, I think it was more a matter of depression. He sees his acts as the class's teacher have been completely futile, and decides to kill himself.

I suppose you could say he figured he'd die anyway, so it might as well be on his own terms, but I don't think that's quite it either, since he killed his mother beforehand.