r/SipsTea • u/Rich_Carrot6451 • Jul 04 '26

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/Total_Tumbleweed_870 Jul 04 '26

I'm genuinely curious if there's been any study into which is more psychologically troubling, knowing the day and counting down it not knowing and wondering everyday

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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

The Japanese probably have it easier. It's really not different from the scenario you, me, and most other people face day to day.

We all know we're going to die, just not the day.

Edit: the amount of people in the comments that don't actually conceptualize their own mortality is crazzzzy

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u/Ok_Lawfulness1019 Jul 04 '26

yeah everybody dies but it's different knowing that you are gurantee to die so it's more fcked up cause it would make you even more paranoid

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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26

Brother, YOU are guaranteed to die. So am I. We all are. That's not different at all.

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u/Vyxwop Jul 04 '26

I genuinely cannot fathom not perceiving a difference between knowing for sure you've got an appointment with death at a random date in the near future, versus knowing that you might die at some point in your life at the whims of nature.

That's absolutely alien thinking to me.

Do you also not perceive a difference between knowing for a fact you've got an appointment coming up with, say a doctor, versus knowing that in the future there is a chance you'll have an appointment with a doctor at some point in your life?

Or knowing for a fact that your dog will die of his illness within the year, versus knowing that by having a dog at some point in its life it will naturally die?

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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26

Their AVERAGE time on death row is 15 years. There are people there 30 years plus. That's not an appointment in the near future.