Famous suicides

Connected Sites: 20

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  • Ancient Kyoto
    Inscribed: 1994
    4.44
    351
    20
    Minamoto no Yorimasa. He killed himself by seppuku in Byodo-in, one of the listed monuments in Uji. His seppuku was the first recorded to have been carried out as an alternative to surrendering to enemies.
  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    613
    9
    Alessandro Benedetti, a young Italian cadet officer of the elite Vatican police force, died of a gunshot wound inflicted by himself in 2007 in the Gendarmes barracks.
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    662
    13
    Lucretia. She became a symbol of chastity after she preferred committing suicide to living the shame of having been raped.
  • Yin Xu
    Yin Xu
    China
    Inscribed: 2006
    3.19
    47
    3
    King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty of ancient China. Another ruler who killed himself as his kingdom was being taken over. He burnt himself along with his palace.
  • Archaeological Site of Aigai
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.52
    123
    11
    Meda of Odessos: wife of king Philip II of Macedon;.. when Philip died, Meda committed suicide so that she would follow Philip to the Ades. The people of Macedonia, who were not used to such honours to their kings by their consorts, buried her with him at the Great Tumuli of Vergina, in a separate room (wiki)
  • Imperial Palace
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.19
    334
    11
    Empress Zhuang Lie Min who hanged herself at the Hall of Earthly Tranquility inside the palace
  • Berat and Gjirokastra
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.54
    186
    7
    According to legend, during the final siege of the city by the Turks, Princess Argjiro, the sister of the lord of the city jumped from the walls of the castle with her son to avoid falling alive into the hands of the enemy. Hence the name "the castle of Argjiro". (wiki)
  • Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
    Inscribed: 1991
    2.64
    25
    7
    Huai Kha Kheng - The suicide of Head Ranger "Seub Nakhasathien" as a cry for help from society and public authorities to seriously solve natural resources problems.
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.82
    302
    14
    In 1862, the painter Léon Soulié committed suicide by throwing himself from the bell tower of the Basilica of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse.
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Prague
    Prague
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.28
    586
    16
    Jan Palach, student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.19
    681
    20
    In 1931, the Mexican writer and feminist Antonieta Rivas Mercado shot herself at the altar of Notre Dame de Paris, after being rejected by the Mexican writer and politician José Vasconcelos.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • National History Park
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.88
    18
    7
    Sans souci Haiti - Crippled by a stroke, King Henri I committed suicide on the grounds of the palace on October 8, 1820.
  • Mount Etna
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.55
    264
    12
    Diogenes Laërtius records the legend that Empedocles died by throwing himself into Mount Etna in Sicily, so that the people would believe his body had vanished and he had turned into an immortal god; the volcano, however, threw back one of his bronze sandals, revealing the deceit. Another legend maintains that he threw himself into the volcano to prove to his disciples that he was immortal; he believed he would come back as a god after being consumed by the fire.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Masada
    Masada
    Israel
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.77
    194
    11
    Zealots
  • Le Morne
    Le Morne
    Mauritius
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.57
    89
    6
    Maroons reputedly "..flung themselves to their death off its sides rather than be recaptured"
  • Kii Mountain Range
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.57
    121
    7
    Kongobuji Temple, Koyasan is where Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nephew Toyotomi Hidetsugu committed 'seppuku' (ritual suicide) in 1595, considered as one of the most shocking seppuku in Japanese History.
  • Kasbah of Algiers
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.52
    56
    4
    Princess Zaphira loved her husband, emir Salim at-Toumi, so much that she poisoned herself not to marry Arudj Barbarossa after the assassination of her husband.
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Gyeongju
    Gyeongju
    Republic of Korea
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.30
    146
    14
    "When Gyeon Hwon's army sacked Gyeongju in 927, they found Gyeongae partying at the Poseokjeong pavilion. The king killed himself rather than surrender. Gyeon Hwon set Gyeongsun on the throne in his stead, and returned to the west." - wiki
  • Gusuku of Ryukyu
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.83
    68
    10
    Gusuku's Nakijin Castle for the story of local Lord Gosamaru
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Baekje Historic Areas
    Baekje Historic Areas
    Republic of Korea
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.42
    73
    8
    Nakhwaam Rock (Buseosanseong) “Nakhwaam is a rock cliff towering over Baengmagang River in the northern end of Busosan Mountain. According to the legend, this is where the royal court women of Baekje jumped off to kill themselves when the kingdom of Baekje was defeated during the invasion of Sabiseong Fortress (now Busosanseong Fortress in Buyeo) by the Shilla-Tang Alliance. The name of this rock, Nakhwaam, literally means "the cliff of falling flowers" and symbolizes the fidelity and loyalty of Baekje women.”
    See english.visitkorea.or.kr