Seppuku Robin Evans

seppuku  He was definitely afraid of old age and dying of illness in a hospital bed, so his death committing seppuku was nothing for Seppuku also called harakiri is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour,

Die Seppuku der Samurai – der Selbstmord durch das Schwert Though samurai can only perform seppuku as a ceremony, anyone can act by cutting open the abdomen, known as hara-kiri, as a form of suicide

Seppuku is a ritual form of committing suicide in the Japanese society Behind this gruesome and barbaric act lies the concept in Japanese The history of seppuku - Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri - spans a millennium, and came to be…