South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world
and in a strange response to its growing suicide epidemic,
bizarre 'death experience’ schools are being set up to teach
depressed pupils to appreciate life again by showing them
what it is like to be dead.
They are made to sign fake wills, hold up their fake
obituaries, locked inside coffins and are given mock funeral
services.
Sitting between rows of coffins, with pens and papers
littering small desks, the students listen as the head of the
center, former funeral company employee Jeong Yong-mun,
explains that the problems we face in life are a part of life.
They are told they must accept them and try to find joy in
their sufferings or whatever they are going through.
Among the students are teenagers who cannot cope with
exam pressure in school, parents who find
themselves bored or useless after their children have left
home, and the elderly terrified of being a financially burden
on their young families.
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