According to multiple reports there appears to have been a tourist suicide at L'Anmien Resort last week. Apparently a Russian woman jumped from a balcony on the third floor, later dying from her injuries. Our condolences to all who were affected by the incident.
There tends to be several tourist suicides, fatal accidents and deaths from natural causes in Mui Ne's hotels every year, but most are kept very quite. This is the first jumping death that I am aware of (though high-rise resorts are only a recent thing). I've heard of more than one hanging in past years--the first was before I arrived, but I suspect they occur more often than any of us are made aware.
I am a westerner and a few years ago I was swimming in the ocean off of one of the Mui Ne beaches. There was a Vietnamese life guard on duty. I made the mistake of swimming past the flag marker buoys and was scolded by the lifeguard. I am a fairly good swimmer. However, when trying to get back to the beach, I kept getting hit by frequent breakers and each time the breaker knocked the energy out of me leaving me exhausted to the point that for a few moments I thought I just might not make it back to shore. The lifeguard was correct in scolding me. I over estimated my swimming ability and underestimated the power from repeating breakers pounding me as I tried to swim to shore.
ReplyDeletehow exactly does your swimming have anything to do with this suicide?
ReplyDeleteI think he's reacting to the tourist death that appeared shortly after this one, where a woman drowned.
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