What is death? Is it just the lost of emotions, feelings? If a person could reborn or read out their final words aloud, would that make them having a self-reflection of what they have done right or wrong and try to undo them? Contemplation of death made me feel hollow inside, what about you?
Koreans had this so called ‘well-dying’ which comes from the phrase ‘well-being’ and thinks that it will help people, including students and employees, to have a different perspective of life and have a motivation to do better. Some big and famous corporation, selling electronics, sent workers to try this funeral out and the result was satisfactory. They became more enthusiastic and have the incentives to do better in their works, boosting the companies’ business. They don’t want to have regrets in their lives.
Though some people thought it was just another way that businessmen invented to increase their earnings. Each fake funeral has to look as alike as possible, and the fee cost is about HK$2500 per person. In US dollars, it is about $320.
Customers have to take the photo which will be used in the portrait, just similar to the real ones, though there is still a great disparity, either sentimentally or physically, between real ones and the fake ones. They also attend a lesson and learn the meaning of life and has to propose a will, assuming that they only have three more days to live.
The fake funeral became in 2004 and about 50,000 people have taken part in this. The idea was put forward by Ko, a 40-year-old insurance agent. His idea is that anyone, everyone can die unexpectedly, take car accident for example, and it’s good for the people to think and know what they would regret when they suddenly die. Many people, while reading the will they had formerly written, cried and showed that they feel that they could have done better.
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