The Popular Sport of Suicide In Pattaya

A large number of people commit a voluntary checkout from this mortal coil while on holiday in Pattaya. It's not that suprising really: Life goes down and down and down, and thus desparate people come to Pattaya where life is (supposedly) as good as it gets for one last hurrah before going home for good. Sick people, sad people, ruined people, fugitive people... always lonely people. They all come here for one last drink, one last cuddle. Then they do it.

Of course, this begs the question of the logic behind having 2 shooting ranges in Pattaya. They are exceptionally popular (once, twice) places for suicidal people to visit and rent a gun to... well... fire off a couple of shots.

I suppose — to be macabre about it — if there weren't shooting ranges in Pattaya, that would just mean that instead of 50 people a year in Pattaya taking a header off their hotel balcony, it would be 53 or 54.