All posts tagged "Mock funeral"

  • Wang Yong-yo, left bottom, sits inside a wooden coffin during the “death experience” program at Hyowon Healing Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. In a dark, dimly-lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds sit down next to dozens of coffins. They write their wills, climb into the caskets, lie down and a symbolic “angel of death” _ a man wearing a traditional Korean hat and black robes -- shuts the lid of each casket.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    What’s trending in S. Korea: ‘Mock funerals’

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a dimly lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds slowly sit up inside the wooden coffins where they had been lying, enclosed, for 10 minutes. Blinking, pale and solemn, they...

    • Posted December 22, 2015
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