"Suicide is written with details of disability" Complaint against the members of the residents' association for compensation, July 31, 19:54

About the suicide of a man with intellectual disability in a municipal housing in Osaka city, the bereaved family was written on the paper by a member of the residents' association saying, "I have a ginger," "I can't do it." The lawsuit was filed in the Osaka District Court for damages to the residents' association and officers.

According to the complaint, a 36-year-old man who lived in a municipal housing complex in Osaka Hirano Ward was asked to draw a “group leader” among his residents by lottery in November last year because of his intellectual and mental disabilities. When I told him that I couldn't undertake it, the self-governing chairman and the group leader at that time wrote on the paper that there is a ginger, and I can't do it. I was told to show it.

The man committed suicide the next day, and the bereaved family filed an appeal for compensation of 25 million yen in line with the residents' association and the then president and group leader.

On 31st, the case started in Osaka District Court, and the bereaved family claimed that the cause of the suicide was harassment such as being forced to write that there was a disability.

On the other hand, the residents' association acknowledged that the man wrote on the paper and argued, "I am not extorting it and it is not a harassment because it is necessary to gain the understanding of other residents." , Asked to dismiss the complaint.

An older brother of a man who committed suicide said, "My brother was a kind and serious person in front of my family. I hate to be known about my disability, so when I met on the day I was written, I was forced to write "I'm going to be exposed, what should I do?" I was depressed. I think I wouldn't have committed suicide without this event, and I can't forgive."

[Full text] 17 items written by men

In the paper on which a deceased man was written, the word "I have a ginger" is followed by 17 items such as life activities and feelings, and what a man can do on his head is ○, what he can not do An x is written for things that you are not good at. The full text.

"There is
ginger (*) ○ 2500
can be put in the room x Kei no Kane- san cannot be done
○ 1 Can talk with 1 in 1 x Excitement
when there are a lot of people
○ Neighbors You can turn around
○ If you have a person, you can lower your head
× Inu and Kaneko are bite
× You can not waste garbage
○ You
can run on your own ○ You can do it hang out or you can
○ anywhere super convenience store you can buy
○ ward office pond in the hospital
× feeling and katakana is not good
○ form phone is only is call
spear × PCs and Geemu No
× I can't sleep if I don't
wear a medicine ○ I can even have Kyo Ekihi Hancho's words

November 24, 1948 *Room number *Male signature''
(* part Is amended/anonymized)

Furthermore, next to the man's signature is that the chairman of the self-governing body and the group leader who confirmed the contents signed it.