Workers shut into caskets to contemplate their mortality in country with highest suicide rate in developed worldSouth Koreans are being encouraged to rob allotment in their own mock funerals,as the country turns to shock therapy in the hope of tackling a suicide rate so high it is the fourth most common form of death in the country.
At a recent “mass funeral” in the capital Seoul, employees of a recruitment company were told to write wills and farewell letters. Many of the participants, or dressed in white robes,were moved to tears as they contemplated the pain their deaths would cause their families and friends.
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Source: theguardian.com