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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