Many people pay to lie in a coffin, experience death.

At the Death Festival, participants must pay to lie in a coffin, experience death for a few minutes to appreciate the present life.

In 2023, Japan will have about 1.6 million deaths – a period that the country's media calls "the era of high mortality". Therefore, the people of this country have made death less scary by launching a 6-day Death Festival in Shibuya, Tokyo.

The festival is organized by various Tokyo-based organizations including NGOs , media companies, and funeral professionals. In Japanese, the number 4 is a homophone for the word “death.” Therefore, April 14 has been designated as “Death Day” by the festival’s creators.

During the event, visitors can pay 1,100 Yen (about 182,000 VND) to lie in the coffin for about 3 minutes. When the time is up, the staff opens the coffin lid and says: "Welcome back to the world ."

The six-day festival offered visitors the chance to explore the afterlife using virtual reality technology, attend lectures on Japanese burial traditions and try death-inspired dishes.

Experience lying in a coffin at a cafe in Tokyo.

The festival aims to change attitudes in the community, encouraging people to face death while connecting with their present lives. The message of the event is that death will help illuminate aspects of life such as love, gratitude...

The festival's founders say their aim is to help people rethink how they live in the present by experiencing death. "If you start looking back at life from its last moments, you will feel a whole new world," said Nozomi Ichikawa, one of the founders.

Similar “death experiences” are also available in Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Shenyang. A man from Guangdong shared his experience on Weibo, China’s social media platform. “I failed my postgraduate entrance exam and was devastated. But after lying in the coffin, I realized it was not a big deal,” he said.

Bon dance during Japan's Obon festival.

Since 2012, tens of thousands of people in the capital Seoul (South Korea) have participated in "living funerals", where they spend about 10 minutes lying in a closed coffin.

Japan's Obon festival, which typically lasts three days in mid-August, also features activities to pay respect to ancestors through Bon dances - a folk tradition to welcome the spirits of the dead, releasing lanterns and visiting graves.

The Hungry Ghost Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional holiday in China, Singapore and Malaysia to appease the spirits of ancestors. People make offerings of food and float lanterns on water to ensure the spirits find their way home.

(According to Vietnamnet, May 12)

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