I'm going to attempt suicide by "fan death"...

That would involve me locking myself in a room and sleeping with the fan on overnight.

It seems here in Korea there's a very quirky fear (as in another one of those extremely ridiculous misconceptions that has infected the collective intellect and knowledge like a stubborn parasite) that sleeping in a closed room with a fan on will kill you. So, out of curiosity (as well as crippling boredom), I did some research, which was really just typing in "fan death" in the search bar in Wikipedia.com. Apparently, even some "educated" medical professionals believe in this, and some of the common reasons given can be found here.

If you're too lazy to read through that, I'll mention some of the crazier explanations for why a common electric fan can be lethal:

• The fan will create a vortex, which will suck all the air inside the room and create a vacuum inside.
• The fanblades will "chop up" the air molecules (you know, the more I think about this, the more ashamed I am of being Korean).
• The fan will cause hypothermia (and if you know anything about hypothermia, you should also know that this is obscenely, almost criminally, idiotic).

My mother once told me that I shouldn't believe everything I see on TV or read in the newspapers, and has implied on several occasions that everything I learned in school that was related to science is bullshit, yet the only reason she believes in this myth (along with most people, it seems) is because "it was on the news". The pretty lady on the shiny box said so! Therefore it must be true!