For the last 7 to 8 years, thousands of South Koreans have decided en masse and voluntarily to participate in what they have called "fake funerals (funerals)" in that Asian country ...
It is an unusual movement that originated in South Korea in 2012, and within which the "false dead" go through a whole ritual where, metaphorically, they die and are born again. In the last 7-8 years alone, 25,000 South Koreans have participated in their fake funeral, The goal of the whole ritual of a fake funeral, through which a dozen South Koreans go through every day, is, in short, to restore the will to live to the people. People who report to fake funerals go through the whole ritual. First, they put on funeral clothes that look like a white kimono, then they listen to a lecture on what a fake funeral is and how it will help them in life, and then they have to write a farewell letter-testament. As they do so, about 90 percent of fake funeral participants cry because they remember all of life’s bad and good moments, because the point of the whole day and the ritual is to act like it’s really their last day in life.
Then they lay the chest and, as usual, (somewhere in the sessions) their hands are tied and then they put a lid on it, which they "nail" or falsely hit the box, producing the sound of nails being nailed. Some agencies even offer to go to the real forest near the hill, where the "dead" read short excerpts from their farewell letters and enter the coffin. Inside a chest that has one small hole through which air enters, the fake deceased spend between 10 or 30 minutes, after which the lid is removed and people go outside.
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