Coffin Therapy

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34797017

The employees shut inside coffins

South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and workers often report feeling stressed. So in order to make people appreciate life, some companies are making employees take part in their own pretend funerals.

In a large room in a nondescript modern office block in Seoul, staff from a recruitment company are staging their own funerals. Dressed in white robes, they sit at desks and write final letters to their loved ones. Tearful sniffling becomes open weeping, barely stifled by the copious use of tissues.

And then, the climax: they rise and stand over the wooden coffins laid out beside them. They pause, get in and lie down. They each hug a picture of themselves, draped in black ribbon.
As they look up, the boxes are banged shut by a man dressed in black with a tall hat. He represents the Angel of Death. Enclosed in darkness, the employees reflect on the meaning of life.

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[Jason]

You've convinced me that life is worth living; by showing me how badly my funeral is going to suck!

[cronus]

Do I risk redundancy by nodding off or try to stay awake? Deep questions would occupy my time in that situation.

[Tero]

Um, I would like to go down the trolley to the cremation oven and kick off the lid of the coffin at the last minute. More drama.

[laklak]

I contemplated my own death almost every single day at work. To be completely honest I often contemplated the death of others, usually by prolonged, painful means, but sometimes just by a burst of gunfire.

[Hermit]

Spent some time in Coffin Bay. 'Twas therapeutic indeed.

[Sean Hayden]

-christ, it sounds so American I can't believe we didn't start it

[laklak]

Coffin Detox Enema - an idea whose time has come.

[Jason]

I'm still holding out for the chronic colonic treatment.

[JimC]

Spent some time in Coffin Bay. 'Twas therapeutic indeed.

I got hopelessly bogged in deep sand in a track near there in my Land Rover, having forgotten to lower my tyre pressures. Got towed out to safety by a good Samaritan (see, even the devil is influenced by scripture... ) in a Nissan Patrol.

Unknown Nissan driver, I salute you!

[Brian Peacock]

I prefer Coffee Therapy.

[Hermit]

On it. These are my therapeutic implements:

[surreptitious57]

I made my peace with death last year so have no need to go inside a coffin till I am actually
ready to but good on the Koreans for doing this since it has to be confronted sooner or later

[Strontium Dog]

Some people will do anything to get out of working.