Shukke is a real Buddhist category — leaving home for monastic life — and Aum used the word precisely while stripping out every institutional protection that surrounds it in the traditions it borrowed from. A renunciate handed over assets, cut family contact, took a religious name and entered a commune where sleep, food and movement were controlled. Japanese law gave families no route to an adult child inside, and the resulting parents' associations are what brought the lawyer Sakamoto Tsutsumi into contact with the group. He, his wife Satoko and their fourteen-month-old son Tatsuhiko were murdered by Aum members in November 1989; the bodies were not found until 1995.